Talking to Jack

In June 2006, I went to the Green Man in Rackheath for a meal with my partner and to listen to some live jazz. The people playing turned out to be my former trumpet teacher Dave Amis, who I hadn't seen for 15 years and on drums the late Jack Parnell of Muppet Show fame. It was really nice to catch up with Dave and we also spoke to Jack, specifically about his musical contribution to The Muppet Show. Less than a week later, whilst I was at work, my partner Chris got a phone call. It was Jack Parnell returning a message that had been on his ansaphone, from a Japanese couple who wanted their son to learn the drums. Somehow he had dialled our number. Obviously this confused Chris somewhat. He told Jack that he must have the wrong number, but Jack read out the number that had been written down and it was indeed our number. It got even more confusing because then Chris realised that some huge coincidence had just taken place but thought that Jack was in fact Dave, my old trumpet teacher. Chris then started talking to Jack as if he was Dave, saying we had seen him last week in the Green Man and that he used to teach me, his partner. This freaked Jack out somewhat!!!! It got very confusing. But ultimately our number had been left on Jack's ansaphone and not by anyone we knew - or Jack had misdialled and got our number.