HLT
Sounds like the sort of thing my gran used to do.

She would worry about things for the sake of worrying. She also had a very active imagination.

One time, my mum had been in to visit her. Shortly afterwards, she remembered something she'd been going to ask my mum and so phoned her. The phone was engaged. She left it a few minutes and tried again. Same result.

Now any logical person would have thought, "She must be on the phone".

Not my gran. In her mind, my mum had gone home, entered the house and disturbed a burglar who had bashed her on the head and taken the phone off the hook.

When in fact the phone had rung just as my mum had got back home, and it was my sister on the other end. So they'd settled down for a half hour chat. By the time my gran eventually got through she was a nervous wreck!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 15:54, Reply)