Kitty Cat Prank Call

My sister Elizabeth is house and cat-sitting for her best friend, Lauryn. When she went over to feed their cat the phone rang. Initially she let the answering machine pick it up. After the beep, Elizabeth heard a small, sweet voice coming from the answering machine... Lauryn was calling her kitty, "Hello Miller... Are you there? Are you inside? Can you hear me?... We miss you Miller! Are you being a good kitty?"

How sweet, right? Well! My sister, being of good humor and not withstanding self-control, picked up the phone and gently responded, "meoooow." There was understandably a pause...
"Miller?" Lauryn responded squeakishly...
"Meeeoww."
"MOOOOMMMM!!!"
I have no idea how Elizabeth kept from busting up. Rosie, Lauryn's mom, took the phone, "Miiillerrr?"
Once again Elizabeth ever-so -arefully responded, "Meeeow."
Rosie screamed, "Micheal!!!! It's Miller on the phone!!!"
Elizabeth admits she had to cover the phone to drown out her giggles by this point.
So Micheal took the phone, "Miller?"
Unable to physically muster up another meow in between bouts of uncontrollable laughter, Elizabeth 'fessed up, "Hi Micheal."
He announced to the rest of the family, "It's the bulb!!!"
(I should probably explain this term, "bulb", but that would be another story. For now we'll say it's an affectionate reference between the neighborhood kids to someone irritating).
I would have loved to hear Micheal and his dad's reaction to the kitty answering the phone. If the cat really had answered the phone you could imagine the bill they would get when they got home from Hawaii ;)

I had to share a classic dinner table story! I was busting up. I love my family's humor sometimes...I hope you all are finding moments to laugh throughout your week as well!