daddy's cell phone....

ok, so one of my spouse's running/biking buddies sits behind us in church....and he asked about the marathon during the morning turn-and-say-hi-to-your-neighbor section of the service...and then he asked for my spouse's phone number so he could call and congratulate him....to which i replied that he would be back in the shop tomorrow morning...and that he wouldn't be home tonight until late.....'oh, i was thinking i would call him on his cell phone'....and it was all i could do not to laugh at how little this friend of my spouse knows him....'he won't have his phone on, so there is no use calling the number' i replied.....'not have his cell on? who does that?.....we have ours on all the time, and we are always on our cell phones.....'......which is precisely the point.....we are not a family of phone-o-holics....we can find far better things to do than to talk on the phone.....i do not even take my phone out of my purse (i toss it behind my seat) when i drive to pick up my daughter after school....no use calling me then because i will not answer the phone while i am driving.....better leave me a message...if i hear the little trill of notes that is my ring i will check when i get home.....i do leave on my phone because being 'on call' is part of my new job...in case of some public health emergency.....i will freely admit that email is in a different realm than the cell phone.....i live to get emails from my far flung children.....but i digress from church.....it was surely a sunday-after-easter service, with the pews mostly empty of those on spring break.....and a fill-in pastor covering for our usual fellow who is on spring break.....i was tempted to beckon to my daughter so that we could sneak out, but as i was sitting in front of a running/biking friend of my spouse i opted to stay and set the moral example, such as it is.....thankfully he wrapped up his sermon in time for my youngest and i to dash to the lowes to get the correct mortar mix to complete our walk project, and some moss and other organics to mix in with the soil in our new beds......i do admit to buying a few more perennials....2 different types of wallflowers, 2 different types of lavender, some mountain salvia, and pink pincushion flower (scabiosa)......i do have to make time this week to lay my seep hoses in my new beds, and figure out how to connect them to the spicket.....but that is for another day.....i most move back to the back room to watch davidson/kansas......