"Knock 'ere"
Sonny stood on his tip-toes and wrapped his knuckles against the small wooden door that said "Returns" on it.
The door opened and he placed his mobile handsets in the compartment. The door slid shut and the dumb waiter carried the phones away.
His dad approached the reception desk;
"I'm looking for the Dancall DC1. From 1995. It's about this big"
He stuck his index fingers in the air about four inches apart.
The librarian smiled. "You need the Orange aisle. Third left. And it's actually more like this big"
She stuck her index fingers in the air, about seven inches apart.
He walked passed the Placebos and Accessories room and counted the first two aisles off. They were "CellNet" and "Mercury leading to One2One".
"I want Mo to please come and roller-skate with me, daddy" shouted Sonny from reception and ran after his dad.
"Mo to roll, uh ?" mumbled dad, his mind drifting as he pulled out a massive black handset from Orange Summer '95 and drew the ariel up.
"Roller-skate" said Sonny.
"She's too young" returned dad.
"She won't stop crying dad. Will you carry her ?" asked the child
Dad put out his arms and beckoned with both hands at once.
"Raise 'er" he said to his son, who promptly picked up his baby sister and passed her on to the father.
There was a band in the Vodafone Live! Lounge. Eric & The Sims. They began to etch out a few warm-up chords which echoed through the library chambers.
Jenny and Paul, the neighbours, ran in from the Lounge with their two children, Jenny and Paul.
"Sonny, Eric's on." shouted Paul.
The easy vibes of Deacon Blue's When Will You Make My Telephone Ring flooded in to the mobile library like the call of the bugle horn. Everyone headed into Vodafone Live! and the swing door flapped and swung to.
to be continued............
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