thebullet
Rebel without applause
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- Feb 25, 2003
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I was out doing some Xmas shopping this morning. The drive-thru guy at McDonald's said "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" and I almost gave him back his egg mcMuffin. We stopped at a couple stores.
So we go back to our car and are headed home when I realize I've lost my cell phone! It was on a holster on my belt and the whole damn thing was gone. I stopped and searched the car thoroughly. No phone. We went back to the shopping center. My wife ran into the stores we had visited. I told her to call my cell from the store to see if someone had found it. While I was sitting in the car I heard a strange vibration. I thought 'oh great, now the engines going to have trouble'.
Well, no luck finding the phone. We headed home. I said to myself, "Merry fuckin' Christmas". We looked on the ground around our parking area. No phone. We went inside and grabbed my wife's cell phone and headed out again.
When we got into the car I thought I should try my phone again, so I dialed it. This time we both heard a strange vibration in the car. WTF! I realized that my phone in its infinite wisdom had switched itself over to vibrate mode only and it was in fact somewhere in the car.
Swear to God, we searched that car for 20 minutes looking for the phone, calling it regularly to get it to vibrate. No luck. We knew that damn thing was there, we just couldn't find it. Finally we decided to screw it, go shopping and let my son find it later.
That's when my wife noticed the damn thing hanging from my radio antenna. Some good samaratan had obviously hooked it on there when they found it lying on the ground and it stayed on all the way home.
To top it off, a little later I called for my messages. The last one was about 10 minutes long, a recording of my wife and I searching the car, then finally finding the phone, laughing hysterically at our stupidity, and then forgetting to turn my wife's phone off.
It's hell getting old.
So we go back to our car and are headed home when I realize I've lost my cell phone! It was on a holster on my belt and the whole damn thing was gone. I stopped and searched the car thoroughly. No phone. We went back to the shopping center. My wife ran into the stores we had visited. I told her to call my cell from the store to see if someone had found it. While I was sitting in the car I heard a strange vibration. I thought 'oh great, now the engines going to have trouble'.
Well, no luck finding the phone. We headed home. I said to myself, "Merry fuckin' Christmas". We looked on the ground around our parking area. No phone. We went inside and grabbed my wife's cell phone and headed out again.
When we got into the car I thought I should try my phone again, so I dialed it. This time we both heard a strange vibration in the car. WTF! I realized that my phone in its infinite wisdom had switched itself over to vibrate mode only and it was in fact somewhere in the car.
Swear to God, we searched that car for 20 minutes looking for the phone, calling it regularly to get it to vibrate. No luck. We knew that damn thing was there, we just couldn't find it. Finally we decided to screw it, go shopping and let my son find it later.
That's when my wife noticed the damn thing hanging from my radio antenna. Some good samaratan had obviously hooked it on there when they found it lying on the ground and it stayed on all the way home.
To top it off, a little later I called for my messages. The last one was about 10 minutes long, a recording of my wife and I searching the car, then finally finding the phone, laughing hysterically at our stupidity, and then forgetting to turn my wife's phone off.
It's hell getting old.
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