Don't Scare Me Like That

Today I was sitting at my desk when my cell phone rang. I normally don't answer my phone when I am work, call it a semblance of professionalism, but it was 4:00 in the afternoon and the caller i.d. said, "dad cell." My heart always skips a beat when my father calls me from his cell phone in the middle of the day and I have a running list going through my head of who has been hit by a Mack truck or who has cancer. Instead, he called and shouted that I gave him a holiday themed gift card for his birthday that occurs in the spring. I just laughed as my heart rate returned to pumping blood at a normal rate.