Calling 911

Today we spent a wonderful sunny day outside with my grandparents and other family. They enjoyed watching John play with the water hose filling up empty flowering pots. After a while we went inside for a cool down break and to get a snack. While I was getting some things together in the kitchen John was in the living room entertaining papaw and mamaw. My grandparents have a phone in the loving room with large dial buttons on it so they can see each number clearly. This phone also has a large emergency button that if pressed dials 911.

I hear the phone buttons and as I am telling John that we do not play with the phone I notice "911" on the caller screen. The dispatcher calls back and I explain what happened. They said they still needed to send an officer over to the house just to make sure everything was ok. When the officer knocked on the door I took John with me. I explained what happened and told the officer that she was more than welcome to explain to him that we only call 911 for emergency's, but I am not sure he will understand that right now. The officer was really nice and laughed. She gave John a police sticker and was on her way.

The good thing out of all of this is that we now know for sure that pressing that one button will in fact call 911.