My phone rang one night at 2 a.m.
It was a message from the police department concerning a little girl who was missing. The message was given in clear, well-articulated words at about a conversation rate. However, I didn”t get the little girl”s name (names are not words we often hear, and some are quite new to us).
I also didn”t get the phone number I was to call if I had any information about the little girl.
I would like to suggest that in such messages, the name be given very slowly, and if it”s not a very common name, that it is spelled slowly.
I would like, further, to suggest that in giving phone numbers, the speaker suggest the recipient of the message be invited and allowed time to get a pencil and paper and the number to then be given slowly.
This situation makes me realize how truly wonderful it would have been if that little girl had a location device. Then we would have known exactly where she was.
At first opposed to location devices for people, I am now very much in favor of it.
The politicians and citizens could decide on details such as the age at which the child should be set up with a microchip or location device, though nothing should be compulsory. But let”s have the option, and soon.
Dean Sparks
Lucerne
