Yesterday I had a really long bath, like over two hours (but under three!). No one was home and I felt like reading and being warm, so that was my solution. I also took supplies with me, a bottle of water, an apple, pistachio nuts and some chocolate. I was set. While in the bath I heard the phone ring a few times, but there was no way I could get out and to a phone before it clicked over to answering service so I didn't try. I also didn't much fancy taking messages for the other flatmates standing in a towel and dripping plus, COLD!
What I didn't know was that my Dad was trying to reach me to go visit my great-aunt in Waikanae. He was also trying my cell, which I also wasn't answering, I couldn't even hear it. He then tried Beau's house. I had called them earlier and said I'd be coming over. So he got told that. Plus he called Puggle and she said she'd go, she had also seen Sok, who said I'd probably be in the bath. So Dad was fine about it. Plus he got a full load for the car pretty quickly and so I couldn't go anyway.
However, he had passed on the desire to know my location to Beau. Who did not have Sok saying that she'd seen me all healthy and I was bath headed. Instead he worried that I was stuck in the Hutt (all the rain), or hurt, or who knows what. Eventually I got out of the bath, got dried and dressed and checked my messages. There were a couple from Beau sounding frazzled. I didn't get why as I hadn't been planning on seeing him anyway that night. He had Roleplaying, I was just going to go over to say Hi to the whanau and use the treadmill (only 1.7km but I had an incline and hand weights so not totally slack). Anyway I called him up and he was very relieved and told me he was worried. Then I went over to his place and he walked out of his game to hug me and reassure himself.
It's all sweet and good, but the thing is, Beau is frequently non-contactable via phone or cell-phone. In the morning time it might be because he is too asleep to hear it. If it is evening and he is out he often doesn't hear it. Then I am the slightly worrying one. Hopefully this experience will make him take his contactability (awesome wordage) my seriously.
Also yesterday was our sort-of anniversary. Not that he remembered. Ahh well.
Posted by giffy at August 19, 2004 01:20 PM | TrackBack