A little before 7pm I realized my cell phone was lost. I have an app on my phone which allows me to go on my computer and signal my phone to play its ringtone so I can search for the lost phone. It’ll play for a solid five minutes while you try to locate it. Unfortunately five minutes wasn’t enough, nor was ten, nor fifteen and on and on. I kept looking for it as it played the fun music. My concern was that the phone would run down if I didn’t find it and then it would be even harder to locate.

The sound seemed to come from my reclining sofa but I couldn’t find it! Sophie even tried to help me.

(I should explain that being deaf in one ear limits my ability to directionalize sound so it’s hard to know where sound is coming from. I could tell it was loudest by the sofa so that’s where I centered my search.

I finally moved everything around and got down with a powerful flashlight. By now about an hour had passed. I was plum tuckered out! But I found it! It was vertically wedged between the sections of the sofa. I couldn’t reach it by going down into the space. I had to open up the reclining part and crawl into the sofa from underneath.

It wasn’t damaged nor had it run out of battery power. But I was sure hot and tired! Not the way you want to spend an hour.

In the process of looking, I also located a lost comb and lots of dog hair.