Answer Their Call

  [313 words] Earlier this week, my wife received a call from an unfamiliar toll free number. I answered it for her and it happened to be a computerized message stating that an inmate from the Weld County jail in Colorado has called this number and asked if we would accept the charges for the call that could not last more than twelve minutes. Being confused and never ever receiving a call like this before, I immediately hung up not sure if this was a prank or real. Being from that area and still having phone numbers with that area code, I figured it was a wrong number. Plus, our last child from Colorado moved back a couple months ago, so it wasn’t him in jail. After a few light-hearted moments talking about it, I began thinking how I’ve “hung up” in the past on “inmates” to sin; people who…