Play Ball

                                 PLAY BALL

         Grady stood behind his father's chair.  He was wearing his new baseball glove.  "I'm almost finished," his father said.  "Then we'll play ball." 

         He slid the mouse around on the mouse pad.  Grady watched the screen.  "What are you doing?"

         "Paying bills."

         "How does that work?"?

         "I e-mail the bank to send some of my money to the electric company and their computer does it for me."

         "So our light bulbs don't go out."

         "yeah!"

         "How many bills do you have to pay?"

         "Two more."

         "Will you have any money left?"

         "A little."

         "Enough to go get ice cream after we play ball?"

         "Sure,, enough for that."  Adam clicked the mouse and shut down the computer.  "There.  I'm done.  Now let's go have some fun."

         Grady exclaimed, "Yea!"

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