Picture this :
Two (adorable) young girls - sisters - enjoying their time at home while their father is at work and their mother is running errands. The phone rings. The eldest, Abi, answers it as her mother had taught her to. Suddenly, Abi's expression changed. She hung up the phone and ran to her little sister, Lew, in a panicked state. "Lew, we have to hide!" she yelled. "The Russians are coming!" "Who was on the phone?" asked Lew. "It was a man with an accent. He said that the Russians are coming and that they'd be over soon!" Abi replied (I'm pretty sure there were tears at this point). Panicked, and terrified out of their wee little minds, the two young sisters hid in the eldest's bed, praying desperately for safety and for their mother to come back soon. There was a noise at the door. Terrified, the two sisters huddled under the covers, waiting to see what would happen next. The door opened. The intensity of the situation grew stronger. And then they heard it - their mothers voice. She was home! The two sisters bolted out of Abi's room in relief that their mother was finally home. Abi proceeded to desperately explain about the phone call, and what the man on the other line had told her. Confused and concerned, their mother decided to call the number back and get to the bottom of the situation. As it turns out, Abi just couldn't understand people with accents very well yet. The man who talked to Abi on the phone earlier repeated to her mother what he had told her : the washing machine was ready. Their washing machine had been broken up to that point and it was in for repairs. You can imagine the amount of relief the two sisters had when their mother explained to them what had happened. Despite the sheer terror and trauma that they experienced, it was all for the best. They now had their washing machine back. And the youngest had an ample excuse to tease her older sister 14 years later.
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