Is My Brother Dead?

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My brother and I were going to get together today and take our mother out to dinner and shopping. I called my brother at 11:30. No answer. That wasn’t unusual. He usually called back. By noon he hadn’t called back. So I called again. No answer. We told Mom we would pick her up between 1:30 and 2:00. I figure maybe my brother was in the shower. But he didn’t call back. I tried again at 12:30. No answer. That was very unusual. And he still did not call me back. I called the home where Mom is living and told them I have not been able to get ahold of my brother so I didn’t know what was going on. We might be late. At 12:45 I called again. No answer. Something was not right. Never has he not answered the phone this close to time to pick up Mom. It’s about a thirty minute drive for him to get to Mom’s. I tried again at 1:00. Still no answer. I thought maybe he had gone to one of his friends where it was out of his cellphone range. I decided to call his friend. The phone was busy. I tried my brother again at 1:15. No answer. Now I was getting really worried. I decided to call my brother’s landlord who lives close to my brother. No answer. It was 1:30. No way was my brother going to be on time. I tried calling him again. Still no answer. I tried his friend again. The line was still busy. Then his landlord. No answer. I called Mom’s place and told them I still could not get ahold of my brother. I would head there with the hope that he would call. When I hung up, for good measure, I called him again. No answer. When I reached Mom’s the lady running the home told me my brother had called and said he had fallen asleep and had just woke up. At least he wasn’t dead. My brother arrived about an hour late. As soon as he did I got the story. He had “accidentally” turned the volume down on his phone and didn’t hear it ring. He slept right through it. He may not had died, but he was lucky I didn’t wring his neck. We still took Mom to dinner snd shopping–just a little later than planned.