My "Wha...?" moment of the day did not occur at school, but as I was getting prepared to go to school. (My actual school day was great!)
Over the weekend I got a new cell phone. I put all of my settings in, including my alarm clock. (I always wake up to my cell phone; there isn't even a clock in my bedroom.) Anyhow, I woke up before my alarm and was waiting in bed for my husband to get out of the bathroom. As I am waiting, I hear a vibrating noise. Thinking it was my new phone, I picked it up to turn off the alarm. Only there was no display on the screen prompting me to turn off the alarm. So I fiddled with the phone thinking I missed a step. Soon the vibrating stops. Success!
Or so I thought.
Five minutes later, about the time for a typical snooze function to kick in, I hear vibrating again. By this time my husband is out of the bathroom. I asked him how to turn off the alarm on my phone because I bought the same model he has. He looks at me like I'm crazy as I tell him I can't find the screen to turn off the alarm.
Then--he starts laughing.
I don't get the joke.
By now I'm frustrated because he's laughing at me and I don't know why, and the vibrating still hasn't stopped, so I cry, "If it's not my phone, then where is that noise coming from?" To which he replies, "Check the closet."
The closet? Why is there a vibrating noise coming from my bedroom closet? So I go to the closet and open the door. The noise is coming from the shelf. More specifically, a bag on my shelf. Most specifically, the bag on the shelf that contains my old cell phone.
The cell phone that was fully charged when I went to buy my new phone. The cell phone I forgot to turn off. The cell phone that was trying to wake me up as it had so many other mornings. The cell phone whose alarm I promptly turned off. The cell phone I powered down and put back on the shelf.
I emerged from the closet to my husband's laughing face.
Sigh. What a way to begin a Monday!
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