I was dead asleep when the phone rang. It was three o’clock.
I picked it up and mumbled hello. I figured it was my ex-wife. She calls late at night sometimes to talk. She’s remarried, but it’s not going too well. I tell her not to worry so much, even though I never listen to that kind of advice myself.
Whenever she calls in the middle of the night, it takes me a few minutes to wake up. But it wasn’t her on the other end this time.
After I said hello, the voice said a few words, then hung up. All I caught was “building on fire” at the end of his sentence.
That got my attention.
