Jill and I were spending a few hours yesterday running errands before our 1200 mile trip to Phoenix today. We got home and I realized my cell phone was missing. UGH!!~ I just bought it less than a month ago!
If you have ever lost your lifeline, then you know the panic that hits. I was frantically searching. I searched the car twice, Jill searched the car 3 times. We deduced that the only thing possible was that I left it in the last store we were in at the checkout counter. I never do that? Why would I do that? So before I headed back to the store, I searched everywhere in the house and the car. I even searched places I hadn’t been, just in case my age kicked in and I had been there without remembering. LOL NOTHING!
Wait!! Fortunately we had installed the where is my phone app. Jill got her phone out, opened the app and put in my information. “There it is John, it looks like it is at that store after all”! Well I was mad. Someone had lied and had taken the phone and lied to me about finding it. Surely not? Maybe I just left it on a shelf or something. Yea I know, I am naive. Someone would not blatantly steal my phone, would they?
I jumped into the car with Jills phone in my hand to prove to the ladies in that store that it was there. I had proof!! The store was only 5 minutes away, but for some reason I decided to refresh the app just to make sure of the location. Oh no!! It was on the move and whoever took it was driving down the road. I pulled over to see where they were headed. I kept refreshing. Maybe they were shopping because they had stopped right in my area. I proceeded to the strip center the store was in and pulled over again. They were still in the shopping center, but where?
I moved to the other side of the store and stopped to refresh again. They moved also. I was scratching my head. How am I going to pinpoint which person has my phone in their pocket in this shopping center? I moved again towards the middle of the center. They moved again and closer to me.
All of a sudden I had an embarrassing thought. I decided to drive away from the store about a mile towards home and refreshed. The phone also moved away from the store towards home.
I caught that thief red-handed! Yup, the phone was still in the car!!!! Have you ever gotten red-faced embarrassed even though no one could see you? LOL It reminded me of that babysitter movie where she gets the frantic call, “He’s in the house with you get out of the house now”! LOL
So I returned to the rig, searched the car and nothing again! I got Jill out there with me and we searched it together. Nothing! Jill said, ok, lets move the seats forward, maybe the phone slid under something and we just can’t see it, and there it was. It had slid under a seat belt restrainer under the seat. Totally hidden and safe.
At our age and on this crazy life experience we are on, we call this event normal. LOL its one event out of many every day, and its exactly the reason we love this adventure. Never a dull moment in the lives of the Martins.