Effie Jean

A few nights ago, I plugged my Blackberry into the computer so that it could update my Outlook address book and my worst phone fear occurred. I lost about 80% of my contacts!!! When I unplugged the phone, it ever so kindly informed me that I had 62 contacts added to my address book. I thought, “well good, it worked” and never thought to look in the address book to make sure it was all there. It’s always been there before so why shouldn’t it be now? Well, at about 9:30 when Kim called me to let me know she was on her way home, my phone rang it’s “nobody special” ringtone. I wondered who it could be, only to discover that MY WIFE was “nobody special”!!! After I hung up, I looked just to discover the ill fate of my good intentions of updating my phone. Everyone that was in my phone at the time of “plug-in” was gone, and everybody that wasn’t, now was, if that makes any sense.

For those who don’t know, my Blackberry keeps me going. I have addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, directions to different business related areas, not to mention my whole Rolodex from my desks, at both locations I work at, on it. So as you can imagine, I am now lost. People text me and I don’t know who they are. People call and I’m afraid to answer because I’m a “call screener.” Yes, I admit it, I screen every call. I have to!! If I didn’t, I’d be talking to Aunt Effie Jean(pictured) whose upset because there was an empty box of tissue on the bench in the chapel for her Grandma Goosalot’s funeral two years ago, and I just don’t care too much about that when I’m eating dinner or out in the backyard grilling burgers. So, I screen.

Now, as you can probably picture, I am sitting at my desk, thumbing through my Rolodex to see who I’m missing. So, if you call me, don’t take offense if I don’t answer. I probably don’t know you yet. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to answering before long, and if I still don’t answer after a week or so, well, you’re either not found yet, or you’re an Effie Jean who may never get an answer so leave a message and hope you’re not.

-approved by Farley Wells, CMDI who keeps trying to get Effie Jean’s number from me. Calm down Farley!!!