Oops
This isn’t related to gaming, just a little life anecdote that happened tonight that I wanted to share.
I’ve always found one way to save money is when someone invites you to dinner take them up on it, because free food is always a good thing. So today I had been invited to partake in a large post-Christmas Christmas feast with some friends and their family since they couldn’t get together on Christmas day. It was an all day affair, with a good portion of it spent on the road (for fellow Georgians we were coming from Roswell to Watkinsville) in absolutely miserable weather.
I got home around 9:30 and had several messages on my answering machine.
“This is a collect call from an inmate at the Roswell detention center, will you accept the charges?”
It was my friend, Ed. Obviously since I wasn’t home I couldn’t accept the phone calls, so I didn’t know what his situation was. Thinking that after not getting in touch with me he’d probably call his parents, I looked them up and gave them a buzz. His mother answered.
“Hey, this is Scott, you know me…hey, I’ve been out all day and just got home to find that Ed’s been trying to contact me from jail. Do you know what he’s in for?”
At that point his mother began to freak out and started shouting to her husband (who’s also an Ed, the son being Ed Jr.), “Ed!! Ed!! Scotty is on the phone, Eddie is in jail! In Jail!”
It was around then that I came to the conclusion that no, he didn’t call his parents.
After talking with his father I called the jail and found out he had just bonded out, so I headed over to his place.
“Umm, did you want your parents finding out you were in jail?”
[Multiple curses not appropriate to a general audience site] “Tell me you didn’t talk to them. My mother would freak.”
“Oh, she freaked all right.”
Oops.
So let this be a lesson, kids. When a friend calls you from jail that probably means they’re trying to avoid their parents finding out, so you probably shouldn’t call them. I’ll know next time. 