When Desi toured with his band while Lucy was in Hollyweird making movies, their relationship was mostly on the phone. They spent so much money on long distance bills that they claimed the word WHAT alone had cost them thousands, as the line was always bad and they couldn't hear each other and were always shouting WHAT? The New York telephone operators were notorious for always listening in on phone conversations, so one time, Lucy and Desi were arguing as usual, and then they would hang up and one of them would give in and call back and apologize eventually. Except this one time, neither did, so the operator calls Lucy back and tells her to please call him back, you know he's such a baby, why don't you just forgive him and call back. Lucy could not wait to call him back and tell him that the operator had called him a big baby!
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