So that's nothing to keep a couple of seniors at home. The Micro Manager wanted to check on some meat in a grocery store, do some banking and meet my skating buddies for coffee at 3:30 PM. I was going to the library to get some help with my ipad.
Now we discussed the logistics a few times. We would park at the store and walk to the library and bank. Finally after a few editions we agreed that the Micro Manager would check in the library to tell me she was going back to the car. About 3:30 I wound up the ipad session as we were supposed to be at coffee by that time. The Micro Manager had not checked in at the library. By 4:40 I wondered if she'd gone back to the car or if I had mixed up the logistics. I left the library at 4:40 and returned to the car and checked the store. She wasn't there. Obviously I had missed her so I started back to the library. Half way back to the library I detected some steam a couple of blocks away and there was a little black dot in the steam. She was wearing a black winter jacket, black pants, black boots and a black head scarf. I knew at once it was the Micro Manager and that she was in a wicked mood.
We met.
Her first question was , "Where were you?" Things went down hill from there. Apparently she was in the library looking for me while I was waiting at the front. Some pleasantries were exchanged and by the time we got back to the car cooler heads had prevailed.
So it's a case where plans made don't work. It's not funny at the time but after a while you look back and can laugh about it. I think we all have them once in a while .
Maybe it's time we got cell phones and kept track of each other.
Sometimes I think I need to write my husband a note so he knows what is going on :)
ReplyDeleteWritten evidence! Sounds like a solution.
DeleteThere are many times I have had to call my husband on his cell phone when we were shopping in a large store and had each gone to different departments of the store. Although we agree to meet at a certain place and time somehow this rarely seems to work out. I think it is the same kind of misunderstanding you and Micro Manager had on your trip out. Although we say one thing I think we each hear or process it differently!?
ReplyDeleteExactly! It's interesting to see so many people phoning each other. I ice skate and once saw one of the guys standing at center ice phoning his wife to find out where she was.
DeleteI think cell phones would be very handy in this case. I woke up this morning after an unpleasant dream, that I had lost my husband and couldn't find him. My husband woke up after me and said he had such a strang dream, he had lost me and couldn't find me. Isn't that strange? Even in our dreams we can loose each other.
ReplyDeleteThat's a real coincidence for dreams!
Delete...sounds like you had a great day, I wish you many more.
ReplyDeleteAs a couple of oldies, I hope we learned something.
DeleteHello, I am a wimp with temperatures that low. Hubby and I have done something similar, he says I talk too low and sometimes he is not wearing his hearing aids. We get our signals crossed. Glad all is well. Have a happy day and great weekend.
ReplyDeleteYour key point is we get our signals crossed.
DeleteHell hath no fury like a Micro Manager spurned!
ReplyDeleteHey, you've got it!!!
DeleteCell phones, not worth it. We have one, for the car.
ReplyDeleteWe began the day with -24 C.! And a snowstorm on the way. Happily, we are watching tennis tapes from Australia!
Hey the snow storm would be better to watch than tennis!
DeleteAlas, we have all lived through those sorts of situations (but rarely in such cold weather). Glad you found each other before someone froze to death!
ReplyDeleteNot worried about freezing to death but I may suffer from a sore head!!!
DeleteOh boy! At least you got things sorted.
ReplyDeleteIt does get sorted out.
DeleteThat cold can put one on edge, about the same here today.I could have skated to the library before the sun came OUT
ReplyDeleteThe real issue is that the Micro Manager was a way behind schedule but don't tell her that!
DeleteOh that never happens to us! Hahahahahahahaha.
ReplyDeleteWhat really frosts my cake is when he doesn’t “hear” his phone which I’ve made sure he has in his pocket just in case i can’t find him!
Glad you are speaking to each other again.
We heard but I think one of us was a way off schedule and it wasn't me!
DeleteA cell phone would solve that problem. Glad you worked it out.
ReplyDeletethe cell phone would have made it easier to locate one another.
Deleteyep, that's what cell phones are for, to text each other to ask, "Where the heck are you?"
ReplyDeleteYou see many people doing exactly that.
DeleteIt happens! And it is something to laugh about afterwards :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it will bring a laugh.
DeleteCell phones are good in theory, but both people have to have them with them, and have them turned on, and have the ringtone loud enough to hear!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you describe the little black dot in the center of the big head of steam :) I think I'd be upset after that amount of time, too, but when it's an honest mistake it's as you say, "cooler heads prevail" . . . eventually . . .
I sometimes wonder how I ever got anywhere before cellphones! You sure made me laugh with rueful recognition with this post, Red. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe can all laugh and identify with this situation, Red, because it's happened at one time or another. Cell hones are great to keep in touch BUT you have to remember to have it with you! Sometimes one or the other of us has forgotten to carry it.
ReplyDeleteIt’s really. REALLY handy for both husband and me to have cellphones. Then again, he’ll sometimes forget to bring his so.... oh well.
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