Give my son a shot at Caller ID and he feels invincible.

With the handset in his hand, he doesn’t need any manners, decorum or anything resembling civility. Some day, I am going to have somebody important such as Justin Bieber call from my cell phone and really show him.

It happened again when I called from my work phone tonight. Spencer no doubt recognized the number and answered with an unintelligible grunt. At least he didn’t say a bad word.

“What if President Obama was at my desk and called our house,” I asked Spencer in mock disgust. Obama

He paused and said, “I would say ‘good-bye, loser.’”

Wow. That’s pretty harsh, I told him.  I decided to test Spencer’s political ideology a little further.

“What if Sarah Palin called?”

He would do the same thing, he said.

“She doesn’t know what she’s doing,” he said. “She’s a crackpot, basically.”

Well at least he’s an equal opportunity Caller ID offender.