DEAR MISS MANNERS: I came home from work one evening and found my daughter on the phone, so I passed her a note. She immediately said, “I am on the phone, Dad.”

I was upset by this response, and asked who she was talking to — to make sure I didn’t interrupt anything important — but it happened to be her boyfriend.

Am I overreacting, or was she wrong to say that?

GENTLE READER: Was she wrong to remind you that she was on the phone — and that your note was therefore an interruption, even if not a verbal one? Or was she wrong to tell you who was on the other end?

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