Of all the things I’ve lost, a cell phone hasn’t been one of them.
That changed Friday night.
I cover high school football on Fridays, most the Bay City Blackcats.
I take photos and phone in the score at end of each quarter.
It would seem to be a pretty simple gig, but I know how to turn simple into an ordeal.
So I leave the Bay City-Sealy game with my compadres - Kenny Williams, the statistician who tracks the details of the game, and Tommy Griffin, who does the color for the radio broadcast.
We’re at the store across the street from the stadium when I pat my shorts leg and realize there is no cell phone there.
Yikes!
I explain the emergency to Kenny and Tommy and they asked for my phone number and they call that number.
Almost immediately, they get an answer and its one of the Bay City coaches, who picked it up from the bench I was sitting one when I called home with the final score.
The coach was Darin Dabelgott, who I last saw packing up at the end of the game.
Darin coaches Bay City running backs and also is the head girls’ soccer team coach, who’s taken the girls deep into the UIL playoffs several times.
Darin tells Kenny, our driver to these out-of-town games, where he’ll be in the maze of BCISD buses preparing to depart Sealy.
We drove there and the three of us ran to find Darin - he had the cellphone that could have spelled disaster for me had it not ended up in his hands.
I flashed a thank you to Darin and he returned a wave.
Since Tommy and I are about the same age, and Kenny somewhat younger, we all had lost or missing possessions.
All three shared tales of wallet misadventures, especially since we’ve now have made numerous trips around the sun.
Some more than interesting than other tales.
Missing wallet falls into two main categories: recent misplacings in the house or vehicle, or more serious one that involved theft of money.
Cell phones, of course, are expensive and perhaps more of a problem when lost.
Used to be a missing wallet was a real problem since most men carried more cash – debit cards kind of negate that problem.
Still a hassle of you lose one of those.
Anyway, as someone in my household remarked when I got home.
“Sounds like an old guy thing.”
