Life Lessons

Any of you who may know my mother (D. this would mean you) would know that the woman has very firm ideas on the way things should be. I bring this up because one of the life lessons that she had thumped into my head came back at me yesterday.
I needed to call a friend to get some information and to make plans for over the weekend. Okay, no big deal. At least until I looked at the clock and realized that it was 11:30 at night.
I was paralyzed.
On the one hand I knew that my friend would be awake and would appreciate the call, but on the other hand a deep childhood lesson clicked in.

NEVER call anyone after 10:00 p.m.

EVER!


Part of the way this little "lesson" was enforced was that while we were in school my brother and I weren't allowed to answer the phone after 10 p.m. Even more than that, we had to hang up whatever phone call we had been on at 10 p.m. According to my mother to do otherwise would throw the universe entirely off kilter and then we would need Superman to fly counter clockwise around the Earth really, really fast to counter the effects of said phone call.

It was then that I remembered "Hey, I can just send and email!" There is nothing like modern technology to solve a childhood isssue.

p.s.
As of yet I have no idea if it is okay to send an email past 10 p.m. according to her. . .