Tales of the Absentminded
Jan. 27th, 2007 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eclectic_boyYesterday at the end of Orchestra 2001's rehearsal, as people were leaving, someone noticed a cell phone sitting on the floor next to a music stand. It was next to a water bottle and breath mints, and there was still a score and pencil on the stand, so we figured whoever it belonged to was just in the bathroom. But ten minutes later when almost everyone had left everything was untouched.
Then the phone rang. I picked it up and said approximately "hi, this is Jim Moskowitz instead of who you're calling for. I found this phone; can you tell me who it belongs to?" The call was the wife of one of our players calling him (the person shall remainclueless nameless). I said I'd hold onto the phone and she could have him call me when he got home to figure out what to do. She replied that he wasn't going to be coming home that day; there was an evening performance at Haverford and then he was staying somewhere else. She asked me to hold onto the phone; she'd try to reach him by other means and have him call me. About an hour later the phone rang and it was he, thanking me for keeping care of the phone and asking if I was by any chance going to be in Philadelphia that night. I wasn't, so he said he'd call back after talking to some friends. Two hours later he called and said that a violist living on Yale Ave would be able to being his phone to him if I got it to her. So I put everything in a bag and biked over.
Tonight he gave me a little thank-you gift, a box of chocolate-covered peppermint Altoids. Yum!
He's not the only brain-impaired person. Just now I made myself some hot cocoa and decided to make it minty. Altoids would take too long to dissolve so I put in a drop of peppermint oil. I remarked to Noda that it was neat how when I put it in the lighter-colored layer of foam rushed away from it, leaving a large darker circle. Then I took a sip, not having realized that I'd been observing a phenomenon called 'oil floats on water', and what I sipped was almost entirely the peppermint. Whoooo, is that a way to clear your sinuses! Took ten minutes to get that taste to subside in my mouth, but once I'd stirred the cocoa it was actually pretty good. :^)
Then the phone rang. I picked it up and said approximately "hi, this is Jim Moskowitz instead of who you're calling for. I found this phone; can you tell me who it belongs to?" The call was the wife of one of our players calling him (the person shall remain
Tonight he gave me a little thank-you gift, a box of chocolate-covered peppermint Altoids. Yum!
He's not the only brain-impaired person. Just now I made myself some hot cocoa and decided to make it minty. Altoids would take too long to dissolve so I put in a drop of peppermint oil. I remarked to Noda that it was neat how when I put it in the lighter-colored layer of foam rushed away from it, leaving a large darker circle. Then I took a sip, not having realized that I'd been observing a phenomenon called 'oil floats on water', and what I sipped was almost entirely the peppermint. Whoooo, is that a way to clear your sinuses! Took ten minutes to get that taste to subside in my mouth, but once I'd stirred the cocoa it was actually pretty good. :^)
