I'll say it again

Last Thursday, Jacob, Eve and I dropped Jack off at college.  Though he was not supposed to, Jack smuggled his Wii U into the car, but managed to forget his pillow, alarm clock and belt.  I repeated senselessly, that this was exactly the problem, paying attention to the irrelevant and forgetting the essential.
Jack heard none of that, all he heard was "no", and that seems to have been enough to keep him from communicating with me since we drove away.
Perhaps, for him that's a way to punish me, and or maybe he's just too busy to get in contact  and provide a status report, either way, it's been a wonderful few days of no conflict, and interruptions exclusively canine related.