AWOL telephone

My telephone went AWOL on Friday. I looked in the usual suspect places – bedside table, living room table and my office desk. No luck. I decided maybe I had left the phone in my truck after boxing up Christmas lights and taking the boxes to the shop out back. That’s were my truck keys were after I discovered they were not in my pocket. I left the truck keys on the seat after parking the truck in front of the shop, and then after the boxes were stored, I decided to leave the truck parked there. But I forgot to get the keys. When I got the keys, the phone wasn’t there.

Sunday afternoon I decided the phone had to be in one of the three major places – bedroom, living room or office. I conducted a recheck of places where the phone might have gone into hiding. I did not find the phone near the bedside table, but I did find my book reading/TV watching glasses that had been AWOL for more than a week. The glasses were on the floor, between the table and the bed. After finding the glasses, I checked the living room chair-side table. No phone. I went to the office and looked at the desk. No phone visible. I moved some papers. Eureka. The phone was about a foot from where I always put it.

If it had been a snake … Well, it would have been a dead snake real quick.