Tuesday, October 28, 2014
HELLO!?!
So I was lying in bed this morning as I love to do. I was looking at the sights out my window. The phone rang.
Since it was only about 7:30 AM I quickly put on my glasses to see who would call so early. The number is the cell phone of my youngest granddaughter.
I quickly answered. "Hello?" There was no response. "Hello?" No response. "HELLO?' Still no response.
Then I can hear screaming and yelling. In the background someone seemed to be crying. "HELLO!"
I still heard no answer. Suddenly the phone hung up.
I immediately called back. No one answered. I tried again. No answer.
So I called her mother. I told her what had happened. She said my granddaughter was at school. We live in a different time zone so I had not considered that.
Her mother said she would call the school to see what was happening. She would call me back as soon as she had spoken to my granddaughter.
After a grueling 45 minute wait the phone rang. My granddaughter had been on her school bus when her phone called me. The noise was apparently normal children-on-the-school-bus noise.
My granddaughter did not realize that her phone had dialed me. It was in her pocket. Somehow it also hung itself up. She was surprised that it happened.
Her mother thanked me profusely for contacting her. Of course she was my first thought after my granddaughter. If it had been my child I would want to know. Thank goodness nothing serious happened. It was one of those cases of better safe than sorry.
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Glad this story turned out to be nothing in the sense that there was no phone call from your granddaughter. Sometimes, electronic devices seem to have minds of their own.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping that it was just a pocket dial but she is too precious to risk a danger to her. My own cell phone only needs someone to look at it funny before it dials. Aggravating.
DeleteUnderstandable concern. Noise on a school bus is equaled by only a few other catastrophes and exceeded by none. Granddaughters need looking after --it's our job!
ReplyDeleteIt is so difficult to discern which noises are what over a phone. I was just not absolutely certain what was going on and needed my far-away mind to be reassured.
DeleteDear Emma, that must have been a very trying time when you waited for the news about your granddaughter - and good that you contacted her mother so quick. Best of all: that all was nothing but a technical error. Though a frightening one.
ReplyDeleteIt unfortunately was not the first time it happened. Maybe it will be the last? I have even had an attorney friend pocket dial me. You would think he would be more careful.
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