Sunday February 23, 2014 continued

Now – where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?  Oh yea – Fort Payne and tornadoes.  Well, time marches on and in a couple days, it’s about time to hit the road again in our quest for spring training.  Maybe get the car washed?  Good idea!  There’s a little drive through car wash in town and you can throw in your own free vacuum when done.  It does a decent job for $10, and I pull around to use the vacuums.  Pull out the rubber floor mats, move the seats back and forth, wipe down the dash.  It all came together so well for our morning trip to New Orleans.  …or so I thought, until I was searching for my phone about an hour later.  Talk about frantic!  My first thought was 2 of the contacts that I needed for this trip were only available on the phone.  My second thought was somebody has my phone and is calling friends all over the world.  After backtracking my moves, I realized it could be in only one place – the car wash.  It had to have fallen out of my sweatshirt pocket as I was vacuuming.   A quick run down to the car wash produced no phone and nobody had turned one in.  Cutting to the chase – Rick and I went to the local AT&T store to check on options.  Rick had the idea to text to the phone a reward for turning it in.  I decided to do nothing till the next day, and later that evening – bingo!  The phone texted Rick!!  It was explained that the glass was broke, and while it would text, it wouldn’t call.  Hmmmmmm.  I played around with this, but after no messages for the evening and into the next morning, I reported it stolen and bought a new “go-phone”.  I wasn’t eligible for an upgrade yet, so I just got something cheap to get me through the next few months.  Fortunately, after logging in to my g-mail account, all the contacts were there.  Phew!  Yea – I lost some pictures, but the important stuff was recovered.  I hope I never have to go through THAT again.