The Great Cell Phone Caper
A few weeks ago we bought a new A/V cabinet from Scandinavian Designs, and like Ikea furniture it came disassembled in boxes. I spent a few hours that Saturday putting the cabinet together and when I got to the final step, installing the adjustable component shelves, I was missing one of the aluminum support pins that hold the shelves up. I must have spent an hour looking for it all over the room, and I thought about contacting the store and asking them to send me a replacement. (Or going to the store and stealing one from the display model). But instead I just left it and forgot about it.
Fast forward to tonight. Susan needs to make a call on her cell phone but she can’t find it. Not in her purse, not in the kitchen, not on her nightstand, not in her coat pocket. So we do what everyone does when they lose their phone, call it from another phone. I dialed her number from my phone and we immediately hear the ringer coming from the new sitting area of our bedroom. But it’s not obvious exactly where it’s coming from. Justin has this great toy that was given to us by my former coworker Mari Woodsen, it’s kind of like a small 3-legged table, with a battery-powered flying saucer for a table top, which has flashing lights and plays different songs when you hit the various buttons on it. He goes nuts for this thing, we’ve gotten hours of quality Justin distraction time out of it. (Thanks Mari!)
So, the flying saucer piece can be lifted off like a lid and there are all kinds of different accessories for the toy that are stored inside. It soon became clear that the cell phone ringing was coming from inside this toy so we pulled off the lid and there was Susan’s Samsung A900! With a smile on her face Susan reaches in to grab her phone, but wait! What’s that small shiny metal thing in there? Hmmm. Yes, you guessed it, the shelf support pin from the cabinet! Justin had made off with it while I was assembling the cabinet and had stashed it away inside his secret toy compartment, where it had stayed hidden for 3 weeks! So we had a pretty good laugh. And needless to say this wasn’t the first time we’d found missing items carefully hidden in random places, but previously it had always been drawers. Now we’ll know where to look!
