Phone call
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63594)
United States
December 22, 2009 11:09pm CST
So, I was at the movies and Maggiepie calls me.
Obviously I don't answer it.
But, when I get out I try to call her back and I'm getting a busy signal.
I thought she had call waiting, so there I am, horriblizing what could be the problem... has she dropped the phone? Has someone broken in? Has her line been cut? Has there been a fire?
So, since I'm south and I'm going kind of past her place - yeah, I had to get off the main highway and go there, but not like I was having to drive across town to start with - I decided to go check on her.
Well, a block from her place she calls me, she's fine, she's so excited I have to slow her down to repeat what she just said...
So, I stopped in and visited for a few minutes, just to kind of make sure she really was all right, you know how it is, you are already so close, you might as well go in...
So, I hope you haven't had a scary thing like that happen - we think maybe the phone company, when they turned off the other service, turned that off too - maybe why her phone bill's been a bit lower lately...
What's your latest scare?
I, for one, am off to bed now!
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17 responses
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
24 Dec 09
I think it's only natural to think the worst when you can't get ahold of someone. I couldn't get ahold of my mother one time and I ended up going to her house to check on her. Here I just kept missing her and she didn't have an answering machine at the time. After that I got her one even though she said she didn't want it, and now she wouldn't be without it.
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
26 Dec 09
Actually, mom wasn't at all resistant, she got a computer early on, an answering machine really quick, but replacing them... I had to help her get those things set too She finally figure out how to record on her VCR, before she had to move.
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
26 Dec 09
It is strange how older people resist any type of change and then when they are forced into it they couldn't be without it.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
23 Dec 09
Hi Elic,
Having calls like that really makes you worried, you'r thinking what ise the matter, well it happened to me early this morning, my cell went, someone was texting me and there is only two people tat textes me because my family normally calls me on my landline, well this was 3.am this morning, I looked to seee who was textsing me, it was my friend, now this friend of my normally goes to bed around 10.pm so I got really worried, all it was he asked me if its ok to pop round this morning to drop couple of Christmas presents of to me, I text him back and told him it was ok to do that, well he turned up this morning and I asked him why he text me so early in the morning as I got worried, I thought there was something happened to his wife, then he told me he sent that text to me around 6.pm in the evening, so that was something wrong with either his cell phone or mine, but its very strange that should happened.
Tamara
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@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
23 Dec 09
That would be very scary, since it is so out of routine for him. I am glad everything is okay there.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Does she have a Blackberry? It's been all over the news that they've had yet another system failure. They're trying to find out what happened, as thousands were phone-less for hours, yesterday!
Maggiepie
"Say 'Merry Christmas!'"
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Dec 09
my latest scare is something personal and I really don't want to put it on mylot. Nobody knows about it but the people involved. I haven't even told any friends. However, I can tell you it turned out in my favor.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I dunno if you could call it a scare exactly. But a lil over a week ago we had a storm & I was a bit freaked in my driveway. My drive way like many other things in this house is a disaster in design from when they built this puppy in the late 1940's. Eitherway our drive is gravel and when the snow melted a bit the one rain gutter drains into the drive. So then we got freezing rain on top of it. I get the kids out to the van safely then proceed down our inclined drive way and I have to manouver to get past hubby's down to the path so you figure I'm the left arm in the letter Y. So back into the driveway and I start to slide a lil bit, normal for this time of year. Next thing I know I"m on a bit of an angle and I can't go fwd or backwards. So I had to call on my cell to wake hubby up to see if he could rock it out I was too freaked that we'd tip if I kept tryng to go backwards & he did get it unstuck but my oldest got her first tardy slip cause of it 
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
25 Dec 09
Someday I hope to have the situation remidied either by moving, tearing the house down & building a new one (I wish), or get this house fixed up as we intended when we bought it.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
24 Dec 09
GOOD MORNING eLIC, VERY NICE OF U TO CHECK ON MAGGIE, GLAD SHE WAS O.K. i HAVEN'T REALLY HAD ANY SCARES LATELY, THANK HEAVENS. Don't want any either, lol. Merry christmas eve.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
24 Dec 09
I know that's right for all of us.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
26 Dec 09
I am reminded of the day my mother called me around midday; my dad had gone out at 8.30 that morning to go and book a plumber to come to the house. The plumber is located about a three minute drive from my parents’ home and at lunch time my father had not yet returned! Normally one would presume he decided to go somewhere else but my dad hates to drive and is not overly confident going too far from his own suburb. My mother was rightfully worried and by the time 12.30 came around, so was I! He did not take the cell phone so calling him was out of the question so I phoned the local Police Station and asked them if there had been any accidents and they said no, which was good, but where was dad? We could do nothing but wait…He eventually turned up at 1.45 or so, looking very annoyed and tired and hungry; he got lost! Do you believe that he decided to go to another suburb to see another plumber as the original one was not available. He was supposed to travel a further ten minutes but it took him over five hours to get home! If you knew my father you would not be surprised...
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
31 Dec 09
Oh I have had this quite often with my Son lol when he sleeps through the ringing of the Phone
He drives me mad when he does that as I live 3 hours away lol so I can't jump in my Car and go to him
I am glad that Maggie was ok though
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
23 Dec 09
my foster cat did a weird thing the other night-these odd,jerky movements with her head-i thought she was having a seizure.turns out,that's just her way of sneezing
because she finally got a full "choo" out and was fine.
scared the living 
out me though.
out me though.@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
26 Dec 09
yup.my first cat's great-grandson had seizures,and i had to wrap him in a towel so he wouldn't hurt himself.his line all got brain tumors after the age of 12 or so,
and that's what caused them.
i did decide he was the last though-i didn't breed him,i couldn't knowing that would be their fate eventually.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Other than sliding on ice with my car, but the brakes found dirt and grabbed eventually, nothing too excitin. I hope my husband is done getting flat tires. One tire was totally shreded, he went around some other vehicle and must be the cops had just pulled one of those spike strips off the road and his back tire hit it. Then the next time, he had a nail in his tire. I'm so glad that both were at low rates of speed and the back tires only.
Glad Maggiepie is OK. Wouldn't want anything to happen to her. You're a good friend. Even if she did scare some years out of your life and make you way too tired.
@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
23 Dec 09
You are a good friend..
My recent scare would be for my mom. It was raining cats and dogs and lightning outside and she had been out for hours. Normally she would have been back already and that day, she did not bring the cellphone. I decided to go out and look for her, but at the same time, she did not bring home keys and so I had to miserably wait for her to come back. I wouldn't have worried so much if she's with a companion, but she was out all alone, so yeah. And she came back safe after that, thank God..
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
23 Dec 09
Weeeeell, my latest scare was hearing someone come through my locked door tonight while I was on the phone with you--& it turned out to be you! You didn't mention you were on your way over! LOLOL! 
But thanks for the checking on me. I appreciate it. :o)
Maggiepie
"Say 'Merry Christmas!'"
But thanks for the checking on me. I appreciate it. :o)
Maggiepie
"Say 'Merry Christmas!'"
@celebratelifeh (1142)
• China
24 Dec 09
i ever experienced this also and if the phone can't get connected then i will thought a lot about the person what i'm trying to connect. most of time there is nothing wrong with it and just they are busy in other's phone call so just keep a cool head and call later if there is a busy line.
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@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I overslept by an hour, slept right through the alarm this am. Hubby is working a day shift and it usually takes him forever to get ready. That was my scare. He is up, and out the door. I will take his lunch to him as I am off work. Heart is beating fast still.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
24 Jan 10
Nothing lately, thank goodness, but when I was up here in Canada alone, and my husband was working in Arizona, we had mis-connects like that happen all the time, and it really drove us nuts!! Either something went stupidly wrong with my phone, or something went stupidly wrong with his. He had a VOIP line, so if the power or the internet got screwed, the phone got screwed too.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
23 Dec 09
I haven't had that happen but my son did. I had an emergency appendectomy and he couldn't get me to answer my phone--cos I wasn't there! He finally called the local police and they found out from my neighbor what had happened because I'd arranged with my neighbor to feed my dogs. My son called me in the hospital, as did the police, and everything turned out alright. I'm glad my son knew what to do, I had taught him that years ago and was pleased that he remembered. Our police here are great, too!
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
24 Dec 09
Maggie's aunt tried to call Maggie's mom and couldn't reach her - she called the police and they found that her mom had collapsed and took they had her taken to the hospital. Her aunt called Maggie and let her know her mom was in the hospital.
The police do a good job.
