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I did check my phone again before I got off the elevator, and my mom was right. The message hadn't sent. I was irritated because there was no reason why it shouldn't have, but I assumed Brandon was correct, and the signal hadn't gotten through on the elevator. Rather than trying again automatically, it waited for me to try to send it again, a flaw in the default settings for my particular not-so-smartphone. I fixed it so that any time I sent a message that didn't initially go through, my phone would keep trying until it went.

That didn't fix the problem with my mom.

She was literally standing a foot inside of the door with her arms crossed as I opened it. She had to move aside to keep from getting hit with it. "I'm sorry," I said, hoping my voice sounded more apologetic than I actually felt. "It didn't go through." I flashed my phone in front of her face, but she didn't care to look at it.