If the cell phone you buy for your 17 and 13-year-old grandsons suddenly rings up $10,000 worth of sex chat expenses, do not assume your precious darlings know absolutely nothing about it.

The phone company will not believe you, for starters, and the rest of us will just shake our heads. Here’s a better rule of thumb: No one needs a cell phone until they have a job they have to get to by a set time. I just cannot believe it when I see grown adults doing their grocery shopping with a cell glued to their ear.

If the call is that important stay home and make it. But I suspect that is precisely the problem, these chit-chats are not important and are meant merely to fill up up empty time.