Lost In A Room In The House
I sat in front of my computer workstation desk trying to figure out a menu for the coming week. On Fridays we always had pizza and salad. Everyone finished their salad while the pizza baked. Now, I'll make fish on Monday, tuna casserole on Tuesday and steak and potatoes on Wednesday. The phone rang just then. I picked it up and it was Jerry calling from work.
He said he misplaced his watch and wondered if it was at the house. I had not seen it but told him I'd take a look around. After writing down fish for Thursday, I added two bags of frozen vegetables to the list. I liked to make sure everybody in the house ate vegetables.
I went through the house from living room to kitchen. I looked in the bedrooms. The watch wasn't in any of the rooms or the hall. Back in the living room where I had started my search, I remembered losing an earring in the couch last year. Well the watch is larger than an earring. I checked under all the cushions and on the mantle.
It seemed to me that men's watches shouldn't be so difficult to find. It's not small like the earring I lost last month. It had slipped under the couch cushions. I found that after a week and it wasn't as big as the watch.
She ran her hand over and under the cushions on the couch and love seat. She did the same with the chairs. Nothing was there. She really didn't know where else it could be. After a walk around the garage and yard, she called her husband at the office to tell him the bad news.
She let him know she had checked every room in the house, the garage and even went out in the yard. He didn't say anything for a minute. Then he started to apologize. He told her that when he went to the men's room, he had taken it off. He found it in his desk drawer just a few minutes ago.
He promised to do something nice to repay her for her search. She said she was just happy he hadn't lost it. She had helped him pick it out. She was really glad to know he liked it so much. She planned to collect on that favor she said.
They agreed he owed her a favor. They hung up and she went out to the kitchen to cook something for dinner. An hour later, her husband, Jerry, came through the door. She said hi and handed him the new cordless handheld vacuum she had just bought. She grinned as she told him the kids spilled cookie crumbs under their beds.
