On Friday, my Bestie in the whole entire world had a birthday. My original plan was to wake up at the crack of dawn, send her a birthday text and then leave her a voice message later. Well I didn't get up at the crack of dawn, so the birthday text message didn't happen. The whole while I am speeding to work, I have this nagging feeling that I am forgetting something. I don't remember what it is until a coworker mentions the date and that she had to call her sister. I did a silent curse and prayer and I put it in my mental POD (Planner of the Day) to call my bestie.
So things happened and it wasn't until later that day that I decided to try to call her and just speak with her. Although she is my bestie, we don't spend a lot of time on the phone together. I blame her and in my own unconventional way tell her that it's her fault that we spend most of the phone time arguing; the truth is I have low social skills (like Austic level) and telephone conversing is a lot of work for me. Anyway, I make the phone call and she doesn't answer. I am slightly crushed, but to make up for it, I decide to sing her a birthday song. I had a prearranged song ready in my head, but when I opened my mouth something else came out. So I went with the flow. It was 30 secs of "American Idol" reject singing, but it was original.
But here is the kicker! The next morning I stumble out of bed around 7:30a. I see my cell phone flashing. There is a waiting text message. I open the text and it is from my bestie. I will not repeat the language she used, but it was something along the lines of "You female dog, you forgot my birthday! You garden tool!" Now I do forget some things, but usually when I have reminded myself all day to do one thing, I usually do it. So I calmly text her back that I left her a voice message the night before. Then an hour later I receive a telephone call that she received a new cell phone and she didn't know she had a voice message. By the way, I work in a correctional facility and I know a lie when I hear one. This from the woman that read all she could on the new Blackberry phone so that she could convince her husband that she "needed" it for work and home and it would make their lives so much easier and cut down on costs.
Anyway, after the exchange of apologies, we went back to what we know and continued in our normal bestie fashion. She quizzed me like I was the wayward child at college and I answered like the spoiled overindulged child that she wants me to be. So I think our roles are pretty much defined.
So the lesson learned here is before you accuse anyone of NOT doing something, maybe you should push some buttons on your fancy new phone and check your voice messages!
