Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) apparently isn’t too badly hurt after a fall during an official congressional visit to Luxembourg, so as we wish her a speedy recovery, there’s no harm in a little levity about another of Pelosi’s travel experiences.

She wasn’t “fallen” then, but for a few seconds, there was some confusion.

This was a story told both at the funeral of the late Rep. Sonny Callahan and in a book about him called Callahan Connections: Bridging the Congressional Divide.

On a trip to Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s to investigate something having to do with the Foreign Operations Subcommittee that Callahan chaired and on which Pelosi served, Pelosi and her staff were out late one night at a U2 concert. U2’s Bono is a noted advocate for humanitarian aid, and he had become a close friend of Callahan’s. Callahan, however, was tired, and so he begged off the concert.

When a call from Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, came to the switchboard well after midnight local time, which is two hours ahead of Eastern time, the front desk operator apparently had the wrong rooms listed for the wrong members of Congress. The call was routed to Callahan’s room, waking him up.

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Surprised to hear Callahan’s voice in what he thought was his wife’s room, a confused Mr. Pelosi said, “This is Paul. I am looking for Nancy.”

Callahan didn’t miss a beat. “Well,” he growled, “she damn sure ain’t here.”