So around five I wanted to go to the bookstore. As is my habit, I generally take my cell phone with me. FTR, I rarly use my cellphone because I rarely need one, the times I leave the house, I’m usually with anyone I want to call. So as a rule I keep it in my desk drawer until I go for a walk or to the bookstore. I look in my desk drawer, it’s not there. Maybe I left it on the nightstand, nope not there. I check all the places I tend to set things down, nothing. OK now the search begins in earnest. I spend an hour tearing the house apart looking. Nothing. I do find three nokias but not mine, though I only remember having two (this is important later).
Now I start questioning people starting with my 14 y/o, he’s had a thing for my cell phone since I bought my motorola flip. Nope. The other two haven’t seen it either. The wife suggest I look in the car. Ok here’s a conumdrum, which car? For the same reason I rarely use the cell, I also rarely drive. The last time I drove anywhere that I can remember is a couple of weeks ago when we took the kids to see Fantastic Four and War of the Worlds.
My wife has a car, I have a car, and my best friend gave me a car that I let him use when he’s in town. I have no idea which car I drove, because I’m in all them once a week. We have overly aggressive parking enforecement and a two car garage. So once a week I change which car is on the street, to keep from getting an abandoned vehicle notice. Since asking “Which car did we take ______?” usually leads to five different answers, I search them all. Nothing.
Hey wait, I think, I had my phone on my desk last Friday with the charger. I remember this clearly, because it was the day he left for North Carolina to help my Mom move here to California. Maybe he knows where I put it. So I call him, pressing the speed dial. I’ve been calling him and one of my other brothers who’s also assisting my Mom all week. I call and ask him and he starts laughing, and asks what number I dialed. I look at the display and :smack: I totally forgot I had swithed phones with him. He has a nokia with a Metro PCS plan. Works fine in major cities but not much anywhere else.
Tonight, I clean up my house, tommorrow bookstore.