The Phone.

Yesterday in Church I had my hubby's cell phone to call him when it was done so he could pick me up after. I didn't know that he hadn't turned the ringer off and just as Mass started wouldn't you know it the damn thing started ringing and it luckily went to voice mail.....but then every few seconds it kept doing this annoying beep...beep....beep.... like a smoke detector low on battery....and whoever it was kept calling.....3 times....and the infernal beep kept on and on.....I stuffed the annoying thing deep in my coat pocket and sat on top of it desperately trying to muffle the sound the best I could, hoping no one would know where it was coming from; that it was coming from me.....because I didn't know how to turn the damn thing off.

I looked around nervously and could see people quizacally looking around, trying to locate where the sound was coming from, likely thinking, Who is the rude person who didn't turn their phone off? and I was at least hoping if they knew it was me they'd just think it was my hearing aid battery or something.....I was so embarrassed.....I just prayed it would stop, but it didn't, so during the Homily (the least disruptive part I could quietly slip away) I snuck out the back of the chuch and went outside and called my hubby at home and explained it to him asking him how do I turn the sound off and he told me and luckily it worked, thank God and it started to vibrate as soon as I did it, almost like it was having a seizure in protest, and so I returned to the church where it was quiet the rest of the time.

I had trouble, of course, trying to figure out how to turn the stupid thing back on to use it to call him to pick me up after it was over though. Logically you'd think if you push the red button to turn it off that you'd press the green button to turn it on, sort of like the traffic lights; green for go and red for stop.......but nooooooo, because that would just be too simple and too logical. That didn't work and as it turned out I had to press the same red button again to turn it back on again that I used to turn it off.

I hate technology.