E.T. Phone Home

(My friends and I are playing a game together. You have to come up with a creative way to answer a question.)

Me: “How does a cell phone work?”

Friend: “When you make a call, little aliens listen in on your speech and run at the speed of light to the other person and tell them what you have said. When your signal is down, it’s because the little aliens are on strike. When you end up talking to someone else, the aliens have got lost and ended up at the wrong place. The aliens also carry your text messages. Sometimes they distort them on the way over- you haven’t made a typo. It’s the aliens being silly.”