Mary, queen of cats

the day-to-day of a grey, furry thing

Mary Saves the Phone

buried in the ' , ' sandboxes by Nikki at 13h32 on Sunday, October 14, 2007

I recently got a new Samsung U700 cellphone, which of course is not really such a good thing. I am a scatter brain and I have a tendency to forget things in places.

And so it was this week that I went to our copier/scanner machine at the office (which happens to be on the third floor and I work on the first floor). I had my cell in my hand and trying to operate the big scanning contraption turned out to be a bit of a hassle while trying to hold on to a cellphone. Thus I placed the cellphone on the floor by my feet, making a mental note not to forget it.

A while later I received a phone call from a colleague asking me whether I was interested in buying a phone. I informed him that I recently got a new phone but thanks anyway. My colleague was persistent. I decided to indulge him and asked him what kind of phone and how much.

He said it was a Samsung and it came in a camouflage sock.

It hit me like a ton of bricks: I forgot my phone at the scanning copier machine thing, on the floor.

I went to the third floor to collect my phone and asked my colleague how he knew it was my phone.

His answer? “The cat gave it away”. (I have a picture of Mary on my phone).

So all you cat lovers out there – it pays to have a picture of your cat on your phone!

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Comment by Lindy

October 17, 2007 @ 14h34

Hee, hee – my cats also help me to find things at work. I often need to travel with colleagues to meetings in Johannesburg and we all pile our identical laptop bags into the boot of the car. It is always an ordeal for everyone to identify whose bag is whose, except for mine, which is always COVERED in copious amounts of cat hair!! When the offices are cleaned and furniture is moved around, there is also no argument about which is my chair, since it usually also has a liberal sprinkling of cat hair attached to it (a cats sleeps on the couch, you sit on the couch, you go to work and sit on your black fabric chair…you get the idea!).

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Comment by Nikki

October 17, 2007 @ 19h20

Well they have to earn their keep SOME how ;)

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