You get a phone call from your Mother. Since her car has been in the shop, she asks you to go to the grocery store and pick up a few odds and ends for her. Bread, milk, cereal, and chicken breasts.
After writing down a small list you reluctantly get in the car and pick up the items at the store. The lady cashier makes an odd remark to you, “You know, we’re in no danger of a milk shortage.” Upon arriving at her house you knock several times. No answer. You decide to try the door. It opens. You place the grocery bag on the counter. Strange. There seems to be six other grocery bags, each with identical contents. In a couple, the chicken and the milk has gone bad. “Mom,” you call out, but no answer. You make your way thru the kitchen and into the living room. Sitting on the couch, with her head cut off and neatly resting on her lap, is your Mother.
Naturally you call the police who come over to investigate. They mention that she has been dead for nearly a week. Furthermore, the police psychiatrist is at the scene and talks to you after you give your initial statement. Sitting on the front steps, you overhear the psychiatrist talking with the crime scene investigator. “It’s not uncommon for people suffering from schizophrenia to get locked into a series of repetitive behaviors,” he says.
You think to yourself, “They can’t be talking about me. Schizophrenia? Nah. Repetitive behavior? Do they think I did this?” Suddenly your cell phone goes off. “Hello?”
“Hi hun, it’s me. Could you stop at the store and pick up some chicken and milk. Ohh, and I need some bread and cereal too.”
“No problem Mom. I’ll be right over…”
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This is the first time!!! She’s only been killed once….which is how death goes lol.
I’m late but hopefully you read this. The death isn’t repetitive it’s her calling n asking for a favor that keeps going. …and going .
8 years later and I’m still here..
whoa
what? this makes no sense
For the amount of content provided, I felt this was perfectly fine. Short and sweet…or short and sour, in this case.
Eh…. I didn’t enjoy this one. The concept wasn’t very good in general, and the manner in which it was written just… It felt boring, flat. Where I should’ve been surprised by the reveal, as I wasn’t expecting it, it just didn’t give me a gut blow like other pastas. It has potential, but I think you should’ve worked with it more. 3/10
damn some creepy pasta lol love it <3
BUT, WHO WAS MILK!?
you know, we are in no danger of milk shortage
Pretty good story, but how come he never called the cops on any of the other times that he came in and found her dead?
Anonymous
July 27, 2008
IT WAS PHONE.
Phone
August 11, 2013
no, it wasn’t me this time.
XD You guys are awesome.
Anyways, nice little story. I love the bit at the end. I rate this 5/10 and will favourite :)
Sincerely,
Grim Gamer
How quickly does someone forget the death or murder of a parent? Looks as if this story was inspired by the movie Psycho. If anyone else doesn’t think so, I’ll let you know I’ve never saw that movie. But I am vaguely familiar with the plot. So Don’t be too angry in correcting me. Norman Bates still thought his dead mother was still alive. That is all I know about the movie. How many first person creepypasta are there?
ooo creepah
Very much enjoyed this shortsiepasta :)
Great pasta but…
WHO WAS CEREAL!~
Well, now I finally know who phone was…
But who killed his mum? D:
nice
I agree it is a little sad. Being someone with a mental disorder it creeps me out because it is something that could totally happen. Tasty pasta though. Oh that reminds me, I need you to stop by the store and buy me some spaghetti noodles, sauce and a french loaf…
The ROFLcopter called him… and he totally fell for it
Oh that is good. psychological. I love it!
I don’t get it, who kill the mom ?
:O who was phone strikes again!!!
She has been dead for a week! Six ± One ! So why didn’t they take the body? Why was he so calm? And most importantly, WHO WAS PHONE?!
This pasta was great, untill I found the greasy pubic hair in my food that was their use of thru instead of through.
i actully saw this on ……..u will never guess…………………ifunny .yep thats right IFUNNY its like the universe wants me to read this these creppypastas are impossible to resist
Hmm. That’s really sad…
Fite me irl^
Good premise, the shortness of the story ruins it though.
Oh my God that is so freaking terriibblleeee ):
Damn it! I hate paradox’s!
Maybe because he saw the milk and chicken had gone bad, that triggered him to break the loop?
Why on Earth is this rated so high?
i wonder if my friend had this and was a noob in battlefield
lol
anyway
GREAT PASTA! SUPER TASTY!
THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
me
From my perspective, I think the police were responding to his call, simply because no matter how many times the same person calls they’re going to come investigate a murder claim. I believe they did remove the body the first time, and this last time the psychiatrist was with them and assuring them that the reason he has called with this claim is because he’s become mentally ill from the original trauma. The body is not actually there, just like his mother is probably not actually calling him.
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?
poor soul….
it was good .. although i think the writer should at least added more thing to it,like playing the minds of readers and stuff like that … but it’s really tasty .. nomnomnom
He’s breaking the once a day thing though. I mean, that would be the second time he went to the grocery. You’d have thought he’d notice the first time he went to her house and found another grocery bag, or a third bag etc. But the proper question really here is;
Who killed his Mum?
That’s just strange!
Huh. Not bad. I didn’t mind this one. The end was pretty good.
Yeah and btw milk I got it worst he pours your guts on me eww
Omfg! This was interesting, And i loved to read it. 4/5
dfjqwdkfhqwdf I get it.
The body was there because the cops weren’t called at all. They know she was dead that long because they’re cops they can figure out these kinds of things with autopsies and what not. Anyways, the cashier comments on the milk because he’s been buying milk repeatedly for a while now. He only just broke from his hallucinations long enough to call the cops. At the end, he hallucinates yet again, falling back into the cycle, because he is crazy.
I really liked this one
So THAT’s who phone was.
Ohhhh!!! The cashier said “You know we’re in no danger of a milk sortage” because he’s been doing the same thing over and over.
Pft, smart. Haha
so if the mom has been dead for a week and he never noticed the smell of death in the house is it safe to assume that he doesnt live with his mom?
Nice. :)
OMG I’m Schizophrenic and I loved this :D
See, this is an appropriate time to say “THEN WHO WAS PHONE?”
Amazing pasta! Very well done
I am….. I also watch you when you open your fridge I feel you pour my blood and guts out to drink……….. My life is horible. :(
WHO WAS MILK?
Pretty good story. I actually didn’t find this predictable. I thought, since there was already bags on the counter, that he had some evil twin or something. XD great pasta!!!
Wow I loved this one!
Poor Guy. I dont get it though… did he kill her or did he find her that way which made him go crazy..?
Can someone explain it to me it was kinda confusing
I wouldn’t be surprised if the one with schizophrenia also had OCD, or even Early onset alzheimers.
I thought some freak was trying to frame him, but it turns out he was BATSHIT CRAZY!
MMMMMMMMMMMMMHMHMHMHHMMMMMM…lovely
Well, Molly, the part about the psychiatrist talking about repetitive looping might have something to do with the seven bags of groceries containing the same thing.
So the cops left the body as it was all the other times? Lol.
Or maybe the mother isn’t actually there, only he can see it, they can’t. And the dialogue that he hears from them bout the mother being dead for a week is just something in his head, he’s imagining it.
Ohhh very nice pasta, tasty and delicious in all the right ways !!
Alright. Sorry, guys, but this one is far from “brilliant”. That was incredibly predictable and super boring.
I give it a C-.
@17
You mean illusion.
@17
But then if he was just calling them for the first time, THEN WHY WAS PSYCHIATRIST?
Ahem…. then why was the psychiatrist there, especially mentioning the ‘series of repetitive behaviors’? Had they just been called for the first time, a) he would have been labeled a suspect, not a victim, and b) the psychiatrist wouldn’t have any reason to be there, much less any knowledge of repetitious behavior… as at the first time, the behavior had not, in fact, repeated.
Because there were lots of shopping bags with the same stuff in it, that was the repetitive behavior the psychiatrist was talking about.
we are phone
I love this concept, but it’s kind of poorly written.
I agree with you. It was a good story, but there is a reason people don’t write in the second person- it’s awkward and should be used in instructionals.
Though, I really enjoyed the story itself. Just not the way the pasta was served.
WHO WAS PHONE?!?!?
The cops didn’t remove the body the first time because they were not called the first time. The character didn’t break his repetitive loop until the seventh time he did it. Then at the end we see him gracefully fall back into his disillusion.
that’s an awesome creepypasta
I’d be like “Bitch, get your own damn milk.”
I actually find this sorta thing sad. But oh well. I rather liked it.
I think the cops DID remove the body but HE has been doing this for a week (getting milk cereal and bread for his mum) that’s why the cashier lady was like “we’re not running out of milk” because he keeps coming in to get some
xD
i want some cereal now
one of the best!
I love it.
“Generic”: I guess they just estimated how long she was dead.
LOL the ending made me laugh for some reason, maybe because he had just reassured himself that he wasn’t schizophrenic.
why didn’t the cops remove the body after the first time?
why didn’t they put him/her into a mental institution?
wouldnt the cops remeber him from the times before?
Nobody had called the cops before. The police said she had been dead for a week so nobody knew.
I was the phone. Making him think he was insane, Classic prank.
This one is brilliant
IT WAS PHONE.
no, it wasn’t me this time.
WHO WAS ON THE OTHER LINE??!!
it was his mom x3 *laughs* he has Schizophrenia,his mom wasn’t really dead
No, his mom was really dead. The narrator killed her. The doctor stated that repetitive behavior is common in cases of schizophrenia. Remember all those grocery bags on the counter, and the comment that the female cashier made? The narrator got a call form his mother one day, picked up her groceries, came home, and killed her. Since killing her, he’s been reliving the entire incident over and over, believing his mother is calling him, going to get the groceries again-(which the cashier has noticed), and then dropping them off at his mom’s house, only to (in his mind) get another call from her for more groceries. It’s always creepier when someone doesn’t realize they’re crazy, don’t you think? All in all, a delicious pasta with a flavor I wasn’t expecting! 10/10
Thanks for explaining bro, always like mentally unstable pastas?
IT WAS PHONE
this one’s great. :)