(Ok,
perhaps I exercised a touch of artistic license)
Lane: Yea, I was just going to call you.
Larry: Really, because I waited all day yesterday for you
to call, but nothing. I kept checking my phone every few minutes- no
call! I waited up till 1:00 in the morning.
Lane: Your an insomniac- your always up at 1:00am anyway.
Larry: Not the point. You have an iPhone, you don't even
have to enter my number, just hit my name, and it calls. What could you
have possibly been doing that that takes up so much of your
day that you can't find time to call me?
Lane: Reading all the text messages you send me.
Larry: Come on, I sent you maybe four texts yesterday.
Lane: Try eight.
Larry: Maybe six, but how long could it take to read a few
texts?
Lane: Eight,
the number was eight. But dad you don't send "Texts" you send
essays. My paper for philosophy was shorter than any one of your
messages.
And
it's not just the writing it's all the attachments, the links.
Larry: I find something interesting so I share it with you.
Lane: And I appreciate that, it's
just, .... well, take Monday, my roommate's mom sent him a picture of
their dog, you sent me a link to a 90 minute debate on Evolution VS
Creationism.
Larry: Interesting right ?
Lane: Not 90 minutes worth of interesting.
It's not like I don't talk to you guys, I called you the other
day, I talked till my phone ran out of power.
Ilene: Lane, Lane, It's mom. Can
you hear me? (To herself) I'm not sure he can hear me, Lane?
Lane: Yes mom, I can hear you fine!
Ilene: Do you need another phone
charger, I can drive out to Evanston and drop one off?
Lane: No! No, I don't need another charger. I
don't need ANYTHING, nothing else will even fit in my room.
Ilene: I'm just making sure you have
what you need. How about money, do you need any more money? How are
you? How are your classes? Where did you go last night? I don't know what you're
up to, you always talk to dad, you never talk to me!
Lane: You have me on speaker
phone, I'm talking to both of you at the same time.
Ilene: It's just I don't talk to you
ever, you're texting dad non-stop, but I never hear from you.
Larry: Ilene, He will answer
every 4th text, it's not like we're chatting all day. I barely talk to him at
all.
Lane: Oh my God! let's just say
I'm ignoring both of you equally. OK, can we move on?
Larry: Well that's not a very
cheery attitude. And why would you ignore us, we love you?
is
there anything you have ever asked us to do we have not done? Anything you need
we have..
Lane: Not gotten for me..... Yea, I
get that. I'm not ignoring you. I don't go a day without some form of
communication with you, that's far more than 95% of my friends do, and they
don't SEE their parents once a week. I just met you for dinner Sunday
night!
Ilene: And you were not very social,
you hardly talked to Christy. She was in from Phoenix, she my good friend's
daughter and you said hi then started talking to dad again, planning something.
You two are always planning something.
Lane: Sorry, she's 15, it was a
bit awkward. "Planning with dad?" NO, I was telling him
NOT to plan something. Not to rent a venue to screen my movie, Not to try to
find a theater to lease to put on my play, and definitely NOT to buy
24 stage lights and dimmers and a lighting control board to put the play on, I
don't where, um, I'm guessing his office.
Larry: I'm just proud of you, and your
work is really well written, so I want people to see it, is there anything
wrong with that?
Lane: Yes! Yes it's a bit
over-the-top, like when I said you could video my play at school and you
went out and rented a second camera and mic, so you could shoot from two
angles, but I appreciate your effort. Both of your efforts. Now can I
get back to my work, after all, I'm coming home in five days.
Larry: Ok
Ilene: Let me know if you need
anything.
