Are you there?

A conversation with my dad earlier this week...

Dad: So, how are things going?

Me: Oh well... (rambling for about two minutes, then a pause so I can get an "uh huh" so I know I haven't lost the connection because then I would have to repeat myself to make up for ten minutes of time where I was talking into a lost call... but that's never happened to me...)

Me: (waiting, to get the "uh, huh." then I decide he must be really intent on listening to me ramble.)

Me: (rambling for three minutes, then the pause for the "uh huh"...)

Dad: (crickets chirping...)

Me: Dad, are you there? Hello? (I check the phone, nope, no lost call...) Dad?!?

Dad: (absolute silence)

Me: HEY! Can you hear me?

Dad: Oh, really? (his response obviously has nothing to do with what I was talking about, but it is also obvious he is trying to play it cool...)

Me: Dad, did you fall asleep?

Dad: (Laughing like crazy) Well, I laid my head on the couch and... (more laughing..)

I know I may not always be super exciting to talk to... but his is a new low. :)
It's okay Dad, I won't tell anyone.