- Once, my phone slipped violently off the top of the my car and fell onto a road that looked nothing like this beautiful road. It looked even worse a week later when I found it.
I’m going to share this with you because I care. In fact, all of us at Aiming Low care. We’re here to make your life easier, mostly, if just by pointing out that it’s okay to do things that might be considered not the smartest thing, or as my loving husband points out as the moments “When We Know Julia Shouldn’t Homeschool Our Children.”
To illustrate my point, I’ll share with you the multiple times I’ve left my keys in the front key lock (Hello Intruder!), or how when I’ve lost my keys and they’re not in the door (Hello Time Wasted Looking!) or how I have lost my phone in various ways in the past (Hello Loser!).
Maybe the next time you lose your phone, you can check out these crazy 7 places…
- Couch cushions. Seriously. It’s where I look first. Sure, I have to run my hands across bits of food, paper clips, and legos, but sometimes it’s there.
- The side of the car seat. Near the seat, under the seat, you get the idea.
- Check your purse or murse. Yeah. I’ve looked 2, 3 and maybe even 4 times in my purse to discover it magically appeared.
- The window sill. If you live in a valley of the shadow of death cell phone coverage and you set your phone where you get most coverage bars, then this might be a place to check.
- The street. In case it falls off the top of your car because you’ve set it there and carelessly driven away.
- The washer. Enough said.
- Your camisole. It’s true. At the @aiminglow party at BlogHer I lost my phone. I was frantically searching for it for what seemed like forever and luckily I found it just as my friends were lovingly circled around me, to mock me forever. It was tightly pressed against my ribs and I hadn’t noticed for an hour or more. But it was for sure no longer than an hour and 45 minutes and definitely less than two.
If you’ve lost your phone (even though you worship it), please tell me where you’ve found it. I figure I will hit the 7 locations on this list first then I move on to your ideas.
I will, in fact, lose my (smart!) phone again. And yes, as recently as 2 weeks ago I installed that phone finder app thingy.
It’d probably help to set that baby up, huh?
About Julia Roberts
The window sill. Always, eternally, the window sill. Once, in the trash. The dogs have denied any responsibility for that. Once, in the refrigerator. I.do.not.know.why.
That STUPID window sill. Always there but never remembered for being the perfect phone holder!
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
The refrigerator.
My kid’s bed.
My bed.
Under every single piece of furniture I own at some point.
Not to fridge (yet) but yes to beds. Yes to furniture (I couldn’t list EVERY place because that would have gone over my word count allotment!).
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
I tend to lose my phone and vent about to my friend who I’m having a conversation with… on my phone.
Or on the bathroom counter. I totally tweet while I tinkle. #noshame
Twitter Name: LoLately
HAHA.
Guilty.
On both counts.
I hope I am not one day writing a post about how I dropped my phone in poo.
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
Your camisole….That was good.
Twitter Name: 31_Amber_31
Oh honey, it was spanx like. Holding my stuff in. Apparently holding all of it, eh?
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
In the pocket of whatever last three jackest, pants, skirts, blazers, sweaters, aprons etc. you were wearing when you think you last had your phone. A friend could not find his phone – I bet him $50 I could find it for him. I asked, “Where is it usually?” Answer: On it’s clip on his hip or in his pocket. I asked what he’d done that morning, then I traced his steps back.
I found it in the pocket of his apron (he had been cooking breakfast with his good clothes on as he had a meeting later – had taken a call. He finished the call, popped the phone in apron pocket to grab his eggs before they burned, and then “lost it.” He paid up later – he’d been so frustrated, and about to be late for a meeting, that he was happy to do so LOL.)
Twitter Name: CathyWebSavvyPR
You’re like that Find My Phone App, but I suspect you’re way better!
Next time, I’m calling you! (on a land line)
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Uh yeah. My hand. MY HAND. Yes, I realize how stupid it was.
Twitter Name: thedgoddess
I MAY have done that, but it didn’t make the list because well, there would have been 32 on it…
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
Inside a car transporter toy … or one of those toys where you post balls in to roll down the chute … yep, balls roll down the chute but cell phones don’t ….
Ah come on, that shows creativity!
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How about buried inside one of your potted plants, thanks to your favorite 2-year-old redecorater?
Twitter Name: coolwhipmom
Well, plants have to eat something! Makes perfect sense!
Twitter Name: juliaroberts1
bra. i have wasted HOURS looking in all of the normal spots you’ve listed, just to give up & find it when it either rings(finally!) or when i take my bra off for bed.
sad.
Try under your pregnant belly while riding in the car. My body ate my phone.