“Hey.”

“Hey.”

“So we just disembarked, and I’m headed to the baggage claim now. Hobbes was a good boy.”

“Oh … crap. I forgot to leave to pick you up.”

Silence.

“You forgot?”

“I’m leaving now.”

Click.

“Hobbes, your daddy is a goober.”

Hobbes grinned proudly at me. That’s my old man.