The Phantom Phone
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
October 3, 2009 11:18pm CST
So, if you have seen some of my previous posts, you will know that the roomie and I spent several HOURS working on my front room.
She cleverly brought one of the cordless phones into the room in case we got a phone call (and considering we had both doors BLOCKED for several hours, its a good thing we didn't have drinks or need to go to the bathroom!)
After accidentally setting off the ringer once, she put it down someplace and I later knocked it off and moved it.
Well, we get home from the Goodwill/supper run and we're back working a bit more in here (I had to rediscover my desk so I could even WRITE you guys.) Then the phone rings. Well, we go looking for it and can't find it. We HEAR it, but it always seems like its just someplace else.
It also seems to be moving around.
Finally, I decide to take the other phone out of the front room (she had to go get it so she could find out who called the first time.) I also found the 5th bag of cloth stuff and was taking it back to the other room to store it.
And that darn phone is still following me - and then the roommate said it was gone.
I reach down and found it IN MY POCKET!
You ever lost something only to find it ON you?
You ever lost something only to find it ON you?5 people like this
11 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Oct 09
I do believe we are kinfolks, elic, i'm always doing something crazy like that.My biggie is putting things in a safe place so i will know where they are, not !! i forget where that nice safe place is most of the time. Old age is the pits as one of my little customers use to tell me at the shop every week. I now know what she meant, lol.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Oct 09
I'm glad to have found my lon lost sister.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
15 Dec 09
Thanks for the best response. U are on a roll tonight, lol.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
5 Oct 09
Yes my Glasses lol
I need glasses for when I am on the Computer and a couple of years back I got so frustrated because I could not find them I was close to tears, my Daughter asked me what was up so I told her and she said look on your Nose Mum, she did walk in the Kitchen as I knew she bursting to laugh lol
I did feel a Fool but I put it down to having a bad Day that Day
@Loverbear (4918)
• United States
4 Oct 09
Huuummmm, it sounds a lot like me! 
My favorite thing is to be searching for something like my car keys and spend about an hour frantically searching for them and they'll be in my hand.
At least you did find the phone. If it had been my house with that much cleaning, it would have been in one of the bags that went out. One feature I love on my cordless is a locater button on the base unit. I hate to admit how many times I use it to find where the heck I left the phone. I only have the one handset, so it is important that I make sure I have it.
My favorite thing is to be searching for something like my car keys and spend about an hour frantically searching for them and they'll be in my hand.
At least you did find the phone. If it had been my house with that much cleaning, it would have been in one of the bags that went out. One feature I love on my cordless is a locater button on the base unit. I hate to admit how many times I use it to find where the heck I left the phone. I only have the one handset, so it is important that I make sure I have it.2 people like this
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
4 Oct 09
been there, done that before we got the 3 handset and landline phone... Never looked for my keys and they be in my hand, because I have them on a cord that stays on my clothes
in fact at Walmart today getting an oil change the gal held up my keys and asked "are these yours?" mind you, she had the clip and the keys were hanging down about 18 inches...
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
4 Oct 09
That's the problem with cordless phones, they're portable but you can never find them! I just leave mine in the cradle and walk around with it when I'm using it. If I'm lucky, I remember to replace it so I can find it again!
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
4 Oct 09
well, she had it in her pocket until she set off the ringer - because we knew we were going to be trapped in the room for a while and didn't want to have to go moving stuff if it rang - turned out it didn't ring until we were able to get out of the room.
did I mention that we were able to get out the front door before back into the rest of the house? We went that way first to put out the trash/recycling - then we went off to Goodwill still leaving the door to the rest of the house blocked by the bags to go back to the cat room...
they normally live in the cradles for that reason, oh, and the roomie is visually impaired so that's another reason to put them back to where they belong, so she can find them
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
6 Oct 09
This story seems to be very funny. I do not think I have had anything like that happen to me. but I am sure I have found things that I have missplaced in my pokets or luggegage. just last week I found a ring box in my luggeage that I had over looked. I thought I had taken it out and looked high and low for it. I retraced my steps and found that it was in the luggege after all. jsut where I placed it, I justed did not check far enough. lol.
@BarBaraPrz (51818)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
4 Oct 09
Besides my mind, you mean?
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
15 Oct 09
LOL that's so funny Elic! How we can make ourselves look so stupid without even trying! LOL My mom does it all the time with her glasses. She'll put them on top of her head and forgets that they're there and goes looking for them. When one of us point out where they are, on her head, she feels like a idiot.... lol
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@snowy22315 (208837)
• United States
6 Oct 09
I have done the proverbial "if it was a snake it would have bit me" looking for my glasses and finding them on the top of my head. Those kind of things always bug me when there is something strange happening and you know what it is and yet you can't really put your finger on it.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
4 Oct 09
Well...Just yesterday I took off out of the house to go to my mum’s place with my daughter. We were in a hurry because we had to stop along the way and attend to some errands and we were already running late.
I started driving down the road and after about five minutes I asked my daughter to look in my bag for my mobile phone. She looked and told it was not in there and I remembered receiving a text message just before we left and I was sure I left the phone on the table.
So back we go much to my child’s dismay. We arrive back at the house and I go inside and start hunting around for my phone; it’s nowhere to be found so I rang my number and guess what? It was in my bag in the car as it should have been in the first place!
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• United States
4 Oct 09
hahaha! that has happened to me several times at home. sometimes the phone will ring and I'll walk into the next room to get it and it's not where i heard it. I walk back into the previous room and I find it under the couch
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