well done Lore, if you had let him get away with this one you would have had the guilt trips in the future, 'get the lad teld and an end on it' as my Grandma would have said.
I'm shocked I didn't do the frantic parent thing and start screaming at him .. He was at another friends house, just too far away for his age without supervision - good thing I knew where he lived!
He looked at me and said ' I'm in trouble aren't I!'