Calling one's mother sounds easy, but it's a very
overlooked task.
In my case, I always have a habit of walking around the Theatre District of New York City in the weekends. Sometimes I'll have dinner in some diner uptown instead of home. Sometimes I'm going out just to find some small but difficult to find thing as though I'm in some scavenger hunt. However, when I come back home, I would come back late (like in 11 PM or around midnight). After then, my mother would nag me to call her before I come home.
What can I do? I was busy last Saturday night looking for a good book on rifles. I'm the guy who comes home late not drunk from a trip to a bar, but more likely giddy after watching a show on Broadway. I don't like to be bound by things like pagers or wireless phones.
She would never understand that I will never do anything so "rebellious" that the more social people will do.