Hello?

The phone rings in the bedroom tonight. Rebecca asks if I can get it. I hear a child's voice.

"Hello?" I respond. No answer.

"Hellooo?" I repeat, a bit more agitated.

"Aunt Patty called" the child says.

"Aunt Patty? Rachel, is this you?" It was. She had called me from my cell phone two rooms away.

"Just now she called me?"

"Yeah"

"On my cell phone? Why didn't you come tell me?"

"I was afraid the computer would turn itself off while I was playing my game!"

Is it any wonder why American kids are fat? I didn't even know Rachel knew how to use a cell phone. Now she's calling me from two rooms away!

"Why didn't you get me?" I asked.

"I didn't want to bother you," she replied.