(In case you can’t read: Mom, You left your phone in car. I tried texting but you did not text back. Just thought you should know)
Let me share a scenario and offer a phone tip.
Let’s say you jump out of bed bright and early on Monday morning so you can take your car in for some repairs…
Let’s say your son is going to follow you over to car repair place so that he can bring you back home while the mechanics work on it…
Let’s say you both arrive at the car repair place, you go in and fill out the necessary paperwork and then go back outside to catch your ride back home…
Let’s say your ride is not in front of the building…or in the back of the building or on either side of the building, either…
Let’s say you reach into your purse for your phone and discover you left it at home or in your van…
Let’s say you don’t know your son’s phone number because it is on your phone’s speed dial. In fact, the only number you remember by heart is your parents’ phone number…
Let’s say you go back inside and ask to use a phone, take over another person’s desk and call your sweet mother…
Let’s say your sweet mother has your son’s number on speed dial and is having a hard time accessing it…
Let’s say your sweet mother wakes up your dad and it takes him a few minutes to understand the request…so you wait…while the person whose desk you are standing at waits along with you…
Let’s say you finally get the number and call your son, who says he is on the side of the building…
Let’s say you go back outside to look just as he pulls up…
Let’s say you jump into the car and start huffing and puffing and wondering why in the world he did not pull in front of the building, where there must be six empty spaces…
Let’s say he tells you he did not notice the open space when he first drove by and wonders why you didn’t check the side of the building…
Let’s say you answer him in a not-so-friendly way that you did check the side of the building…
Let’s say he then tells you that he thought it would take you longer (and so did you, actually) and so he ran to Starbucks to buy you each a coffee…
Let’s say you suggested that he start with, “Mom, I bought you coffee,” when you jump into the car and are ready to throttle him…
Suggestion: Write down important phone numbers and stick them in your wallet. The back of a business card works nicely. Just sayin’…
Did I mention Mercury was in retrograde?
Odd Loves Company!
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P.S. Soon after Cole left for school in my car…I realized my phone went with him. We have a land line but we don’t have a phone attached to it. It’s complicated. Don’t call. Comment or e-mail.
How could you ever be short tempered with that angel son of yours! Mercury is retrograding at full speed – crazy shennanigans at work. How long is this going to last??
Until about March 17th—-BUT I would give it another day or two until things even out.
My kid the wanderer.
I’m exhausted just reading that! Wow.
Remember those nifty little clips for keeping your mittens attached to your coat? Maybe you should invent a similar gizmo for all of us that have suffered through a morning like yours!
My phone needs a leash for sure!! Good idea. For the time being I am just keeping a few key numbers in my wallet and hope I never lock my key, wallet and phone in my car (again).
I’m still laughing.. Sorry.. Hahaha.. Oh dear God. This could easily happen to all of us though. I don’t remember anybody phone # anymore, so thanks for the tips!
I know right? I can still remember phone numbers from 20 years ago by dialing the push button pattern in the air… -these days I know one–my mothers home phone.
Sorry… I am laughing too. Sounds like me on a Monday or any day of the week. 🙂
Glad to have someone to laugh with….misery loves company too!
What a sweet, considerate son you have! Who could even consider throttling somebody like him?! I see Mercury messing with you here — Big Time. Not nice to do so on a Monday, especially when you’ve got so much on your plate. What does this one last, three weeks? Sigh.
Me!! Boys/Men communicating with them is always a challenge—-Cole insists it is because women/moms go on and on and on and giving way to much information–in other words–does he need to know the bread I put on the shopping list is for French toast? No. Or what the plans are two days in advance? No. The fact that we let them live at all puts up high on the candidate list for Sainthood. Mercury–lasts until March 17th but proceed with caution for a little longer.
now wasn’t this episode in addition to the complicated morning you spoke of leaving for in today’s earlier blog??? oh boy………
Yep but I did survive! I just kept calm and said—this too shall pass and downloaded Skype to solve the phone problem and made popcorn to eat with a little bottle of coke.