Matt drives to Marlborough with Daryl in Diane’s blue Subaru to pick up my truck. On the return trip Daryl drives my truck and Matt drives the Subaru. At 5:01 Matt calls Daryl to chit chat. They then stop, briefly, at Hil Koeller’s house. Matt jumps out of the car, but doesn’t move far from it, and then he gets back in and drives home. He gets out of the car and walks up the porch steps, in through the kitchen door and makes a peeline to the toilet. On the way back he waves to his mom who’s at her computer, looks in the fridge, and then walks out of the door and gets back in the Subaru. I wave to him, he gets out, I tell him whatever it was I needed to, and he gets back in and drives to Daryl’s. He’s at Daryl’s for an hour when he reaches into his pocket to call someone and finds his phone is missing.
I’ve raked the snow in our driveway near where Matt exited and entered the car. I’ve done the same at Hil’s house. Matt has looked in both places and has shoveled the snow near Daryl’s house. We’ve both looked multiple times in both the truck and the car. Matt has scoured Daryl’s house, I’ve looked everywhere within a ten foot radius of his trail in our house. Yes, I’ve looked in the fridge. Matt was wearing a sweatshirt with one of those center connecting pockets. He may have set the phone down on his lap in the car. He doesn’t know if the phone was on ring or vibrate but I called it 20 to 30 times before it died about a day and a half after it disappeared. The last recorded call, AT&T tells us, was Matt’s to Daryl.
caa (curious as always)
So, if someone finds it, can they use it? I mean, is it useful as a stolen item? I assume you’ve figured out how far it could have slid in the cars, and looked there too. Did he eat it along with whatever he found in the fridge? Or flush it?
el Kib
So … ? +/- 31 hours post post, any update?
michael
Still missing and someone could use it which would be fine with us because then we’d stop looking.
adam
Still nada? Have you stapled “Missing” pictures of it to telephone poles? Called the police or other possible depositories of lost and founds, including businesses adjacent to wherever Mattman was the day he lost it? Made a burnt offering of a Vista-based PC … ?
rakkity
I’ll sacrifice my Vista PC if it’ll help. I’ve lost 3 cell phones myself (only the 19.99 kind, however).
michael
Still nada but I was hoping we’d get a visionary answer from someone with a crystal ball. Besides, we all know men are notoriously poor finders of lost items because they don’t know how to look. My technique is to look in the same three places seventeen times and wait for Diane to find it my back pocket.
rakkity
Hey, I just found one of my long-lost phones. It was in the bottom of a box in the basement. I’ve been looking in that same box every couple of weeks for months.
el Kib
Got any long-idle boxes in Wacton that merit investigating … ?