<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

I'll start. Sometime in the 1990s, I lived with my mom and her boyfriend, and we used dial-up AOL for Internet access. At the time, we only had one phone line, so using AOL meant no phone calls. My mom was sometimes annoyed that the phone line was always tied up because the phone was her primary form of communication.

One day, her boyfriend was out running errands, and she needed to go run some too. She told me not to get online in case they needed to call. She had never made this request before, so I thought it was a bit odd. I then figured no one would notice if I got online for very short periods of time, so I did.

However, her boyfriend did try to call me during one of my brief online sessions. He was in a motorcycle accident, and had been rushed to the hospital, and he couldn't reach us. After awhile, he was OK, but I was grounded for a long time. 

In my defense, this in no way prevented him from getting the medical care he needed, but I'm sure my mom would have preferred him being able to reach me ASAP.
<bot>: I ignored an odd request to not tie up the phone line, and a motorcycle accident victim was unable to reach me.