Pippi Gets a Phone
Village: Villa Villekulla
At Villa Villekulla, out in the front yard, Pippi is minding her own business and sitting idly, when Tommy and Annika came by, looking gloomy.
"Hello there, Tommy and Annika." Pippi said. "Why the long faces? The day is as sunny as it can be. It's no time to be looking gloomy."
"We know, but we can't help it." Tommy said.
"Yeah, we're gonna miss you." Annika said.
"Miss me? Why would you miss me? Am I gonna be away for a while and you won't be able to come with me?" Pippi asked.
"No, it's the opposite." Tommy replied. "It's us that's going away for a while and you won't be able to come with us."
"Well, in that case, where are you going then?" Pippi asked.
"We're going to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden." Annika replied. "But it'll be so boring."
"Yeah, we'd rather stay here, where it's fun, with you." Tommy said.
"Well, everyone would like to have fun all the time, but unfortunately, we can't." Pippi said.
"Oh yeah, I just remembered, we had another reason for coming here than to tell you we're going on a trip." Annika said.
"Well then tell me." Pippi said. "I'm waiting."
"Our parents wanted to invite you over for dinner tonight at 7 o'clock." Annika said.
"Great, I'll make sure to be there." Pippi said.
Village: Settergren house (7:00 p.m.)
At seven, Pippi came over by Tommy and Annika's house and took a seat at the table, where a conversation occurred.
"By the way, I heard from Tommy and Annia that you were going to Stockholm. When are you going?" Pippi asked.
"We are going there two days from today. I am excited at the amazing things we'll see there like: the Storkyrkan Cathedral, the Kungliga Slottet Royal Palace, the Nobel Museum, and many more." Mrs. Settergren said.
"It should be great to visit the country's capital in person, wouldn't you say?" Mr. Settergren said.
As the conversation continued, Pippi noticed a home phone on the wall.
"Um, excuse me, but what is that thing on the wall?" Pippi asked about the phone.
"That's a telephone." Mrs. Settergren replied. "It allows you to talk to people far away."
"Wow. That sounds interesting." Pippi said as she went over to the phone.
Pippi picked up the phone and waited for someone to talk through it, but no one responded.
"No one's responding." Pippi said. "This thing must be broken."
"It's not broken." Annika said. "You can't just hear or call someone just by waiting."
"You have to put in the phone number." Tommy said. "When you put in someone's phone number, the phone will know who to call and call that person. But if someone puts in your phone number, then you're the one who gets called."
Tommy then put in a phone number and called someone.
The recipient is Willie, who picked up the call.
"Hello?" Willie said.
"Hi Willie." Tommy said. "Annika and I were showing Pippi how a phone works."
"Pippi? I thought she would know what a phone was." Willie said.
"Hold on. I'm gonna give the phone to Pippi." Tommy said, and he handed the phone to Pippi.
"Hi Willie. How are you?" Pippi asked.
"Actually, it's more polite to say, "Hello" when you pick up the phone.
"Oh, I see." Pippi said. "Hello?"
"Hi Pippi. How are you?" Willie asked.
"Why, I'm fine. Thank you for asking." Pippi said. "This telephone is quite amazing, I just might get myself one at Villa Villekulla."
"Well in that case, we can show you where the telephone store is tomorrow, there's a store in town." Tommy said.
Town: Telephone store (Next day)
The next day, at the town's telephone store, Pippi and her friends were looking at telephones.
Then, Pippi found one; it was shiny black, it had circular white buttons, and its handle was thin.
"Say, how about this one?" Pippi asked.
"Well, it's gonna be your phone, so it's your choice if you want it." Annika said.
Pippi got the phone, went to the register, and paid for the phone.
The cashier put the phone in a box, put in an instruction manual, and taped the box shut.
Village: Villa Villekulla
Pippi and her friends went back to Villa Villekulla to see Pippi's new phone.
Pippi opened the box, in which was the telephone and the instruction manual.
"I've wondered what this small book is." Pippi said. "Do you know it?"
"It's an instruction manual, it tells you how to use the phone and other things." Annika replied.
Pippi got the instruction manual, started reading it, and followed the instructions to install it.
"There, right in the living room. It's actually quite a nice spot for a phone." Pippi said.
"Hey, Pippi. Let's exchange numbers so that we can call each other." Tommy suggested.
"Excellent idea, Tommy." Pippi said, and Pippi gave Tommy and Annika her number and Tommy and Annika gave theirs.
"Come on Tommy, let's go home and try it out." Annika suggested, and she and Tommy went back to their house to call Pippi.
Few minutes later, Pippi's phone rang and Pippi picked it up.
"Hello?" Pippi said.
"Hi, Pippi." Annika said. "It's working, we can hear each other fine."
"It is indeed. What a fortunate thing, too." Pippi said.
"Now we can call each other while we're on vacation." Tommy said.
"Yes, and when you leave, please do tell me about all the things you'll be seeing there. I'd love to hear about what you're gonna see." Pippi said.
Village: Settergren house (Next day)
The Settergren family had all their stuff packed, and were ready to leave, and Pippi came by to see them off.
"Just to clarify, while we're gone, don't bother trying to call our home, after all, we won't be here to answer it, we'll call from the place we'll be staying at Stockholm." Tommy said.
"I wish I could come along, but I have to stay at Villa Villekulla and watch the place." Pippi said.
"Bye Pippi!" Annika said as she and her family got into the car and drove off.
Village: Villa Villekulla
Later, that afternoon, Pippi got a call, it was from Tommy and Annika.
"Hello?" Pippi said.
"Hi, Pippi." Annika said.
"Why hello, Annika." Pippi said. "How are you on your vacation?"
"Well, we just got to a hotel, it's actually quite nice." Annika said.
"Tomorrow, we're gonna go around and see all the places in Stockholm." Tommy said.
The next day, Pippi got another call from Tommy and Annika.
"Hello?" Pippi said.
"Hi Pippi. We wanna tell you about all the incredible things we saw today." Tommy said. "We went to the Vasa Museum, the City Hall, the Royal Palace, and a lot more, you would be excited if you were here with us."
"Well, it sounds like you're enjoying your vacation." Pippi said.
"Oh yeah, you have a good point." Annika said. "We're enjoying our trip a lot more than we thought we would."
"I can't wait to come home and show you all the pictures we took." Tommy said.
Village: Settergren house
Two days later, the Settergren family came back, and Pippi was there to greet them.
Pippi helped Mr. and Mrs. Settergren unload their luggage and then joined Tommy and Annika in their room.
Tommy and Annika showed all the pictures they took to Pippi.
"Wow, this all incredible." Pippi said. "You gotta take me with you next time you go on a trip."
"Sure, we'll ask our parents to see if you can come next time." Annika said.
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