Mr. Indi is required by his employer to wear a pager (beeper) 24/7. This is in addition to all the other electronic devices that are on or about his person. There is a laptop computer that has become a permanent fixture on my dining room table, too.
Anyway, last week, Mr. Indi noticed that he was not receiving any pages. He tested the gizmo and the battery was fine but when he tried to page himself, the signal didn't come through. On Friday, he spent several hours speaking with the techie types in his IT department, trying to resolve the problem. There was much discussion about the circumstances of people's birth and their parentage and at last the pager sprang to life and he once again began to receive pages about events that were of absolutely no consequence.
On Sunday morning, as we were getting ready to go to the beach for the day, Mr. Indi went to the loo. As he was pulling his pants up - guess what - the pager fell down the lavatory! It no longer works.
You can see Mr. Indi - pagerless - in the picture above. He's peering out of the window at Bubba Gump's Shrimp in Santa Monica.
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IPA ... I'm crossing my legs laughing here ! My very elderly mother hated her hearing aid; convinced everyone spoke too softly, not that she was deaf. She tried hiding it everywhere she could think of, until the day it fell out of her ear and down the loo in the nursing home, just at the moment the care assistant pressed the flush !
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