So I've fixed dinner for Alison and she's indulging her passion for mashed potatoes and gravy when the phone rings. Jeff's not yet home from work, but is going to head right out for a wine tasting with his new BFF John Vielee. I'm not feeling well, so Ali is at the counter, eating on her own while I'm on the couch looking outside and wishing I felt better.
I answer and it's a boy. For Alison. Coincidentally, it's John's nephew, Charlie Vielee.
"Hi Charlie," says Alison, still eating, puts the phone on speaker. I go back to the couch.
Turns out Charlie needs help with a spy mission on Club Penguin -- the latest craze in the world of the 4-feet-tall crowd.
"Alison, how do I get past the secret code in the GS Secret Mission?" he asked.
She goes immediately into tech support mode. All she needed was a head set and she could have been on the Geek Squad.
"Are you at the ski jump?" she asked.
"Yeah. But I can't get the secret code," he says.
"OK. Here's what you do," she says, rattling off a series of instructions. "No. Look. Wait. Let me log on."
She moves over to the laptop, logs on and walks him through the process. She must have been on the phone for 15 minutes, offering suggestions, praising him every now and then and double-checking that he'd done exactly as she ordered.
Charlie managed to get through the mission and was a pretty happy camper.
"Bye, Charlie," Alison chirped, and returned to her dinner. I wonder when she's going to start charging.
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