Vice president calls 3-year-old fan

Three-year-old Avery Bral is used to gabbing with “Joe Biden,” — the Iowa girl’s family says she’d talk to her vice presidential pal in pretend phone conversations nearly every day. But the very young Biden fan’s family got quite a surprise when the living and breathing Biden gave little Avery a ring.

“He said ‘This is Joe Biden’ and I said, ‘Who the hell is this?’ And he said, ‘This is Joe Biden,’ and I said, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry I said that to you,'” Avery’s grandmother, Becky Burke, told Iowa’s KCCI-TV, which was first to report the telephone tale.

{mosads}Burke had posted a message on Biden’s page on the White House’s website earlier this year, telling the vice president that Avery would constantly chat on her toy phone with “Biden” after asking her parents for the name of the man she had spotted on the television.

“From then on, for the next few months, every time she was on her phone it was Joe Biden,” Avery’s mom, Erica Bral, told the station.

Biden, who dialed Avery last week, told the family he called after eyeing a note on his desk.

The topic du jour between Avery and the real Joe Biden? Burke says the two discussed family, and Biden told Avery a few stories about his grandchildren.

The real-life conversation with Biden was apparently enough of the vice president for Avery — her family says she hasn’t mentioned Biden in a while.