About three weeks ago while having lunch with a friend I looked in my purse for my CI remote and couldn't find it. I figured I had left it at home in the charger. (I don't use it often.) Occasionally, during the next couple of weeks, I thought about it and glanced superficially around, wondering where it was. Then I got more serious about it. Where could it be?
I searched in every pocketbook I'd used over the last several months, in every coat pocket and pants pocket, in all the drawers I ever would have thought to put it in, even in my husband's suit pockets and I could not find it. So today I went to five restaurants and coffee shops I'd been in since I had noticed it "missing"--to no avail. I stopped at a temple where I had attended a Bar Mitzvah recently and was shown through their lost-and-found--to no avail. I emailed four people who had stayed with us recently, asking if they had possibly taken it home by mistake--to no avail.
I was beginning to panic.
But tonight as I was changing stuff from one pocketbook to another just before we went out "all dressed up" I pulled it out of a hidden pocket in my everyday purse. It had been covered over by something and I didn't realize there was a pocket there, so I missed it the first time. What a relief!
I will be more careful from here on out.
