Last night we enjoyed an Italian themed pot luck dinner at the yacht club. After the huge spread of lasagna and pasta followed by tiramisu, there was a brief group discussion about the upcoming club trip to Rarotonga.
Normally, I am a little more up on the evening schedule and would have left before the talk, as we are not joining the club on this adventure.
But I was busy chatting away with another family, and suddenly it was too late. I was stuck until the end of the presentation.
So, I thought I would quietly check my email.
My phone has 3G and I have done it before.
Just tap the mail icon and one by one I can quietly read my mail, and not bother anyone.
Good plan.
Except for my short fat stubby fingers.
Darn fingers.
Really, it was more about my lack of paying attention.
I hit the wrong button.
No mail.
Instead I hit the ipod button.
Normally I listen to the ipod with headphones, so the volume is turned pretty low. Without the headphone plugged in, the sound is barely audible.
No big deal.
No one notices.
Too bad this wasn’t the case.
You see the beauty of living with a rocket scientist is they can do really cool things. My hubby put together a few wires in some special way, so when I plug one end into the stereo and the other end into the iphone, I can listen to the ipod music through the stereo speakers.
How cool is that? Rocket Scientist hubby is awesome!
He even has it programmed somehow so the phone knows. When I put the headphone in, it automatically lowers the volume. When I plug his special wire in, it automatically raises the volume to maximum.
Apparently it leaves it there.
Back to my night at the club.
Where was I in my story? Oh, yes I remember, so I hit the wrong button and full blast the ipod starts to play music.
Now, it’s not rocket science, so I don’ know why hubby reached over to try and help. I can only guess it was to end this humiliation as quickly as possible.
Well that didn’t happen.
Neither of us could get it to stop, and with each of us pushing different buttons, it was probably never going to end.
I was sure the club’s speaker had stopped talking and all eyes were upon me.
The girls were helping now too,
“Mom, shut it off, it’s embarrassing”
“What are you doing?”
“Just make it stop.”
Eventually I figured it out.
Darn phone.
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Ah, but you should have used that moment to rush out of the room with your phone and escaped in the confusion!
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LOL – This is brilliant. I can’t believe I missed my opportunity – of course I would have been leaving hubby and the kids behind.
You Rock!
Thanks Alex
Good thing you are not going to Rarotonga!
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LOL – Although a week in the Cook islands wouldn’t be so bad. Thanks Julie
That made me choke on my coffee! Too funny.
Yay! Not the choking part, the laughing part.
Haha! I can fully see it – hilarious. Sorry, it must have been embarrassing. But funny!
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Hey Lynne – it was both. Embarrassing at the time, funny now.
I,too, am iPhone-challenged–I feel your pain. MM
Phone-challenged what a perfect term to describe me. Thanks
I can just imagine that going on. I bet it was embarrassing. LOL I could just see me doing that.
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Yes, it was embarrassing
But it does make for a great story 
Thanks Marylin.
Rhonda,
It runs in the family. Last Yom Kipper, after an embarassing attempt of blowing the Shofar to start the holiest service on the Jewish calendar,( your sister told me if it’s in God’s house it can’t be bad), the rabbi reminded everyone to turn off their cell phones. Mine started yelling “Say a command”. It refused to acknowleage “Shut up”, “stop” or anything else. I was of course in the front row.
I have since been advised to take out the battery.
Dad
LOL Dad, so if I understand this correctly, it wasn’t my fault – it was yours. Thanks for taking the responsibility {{{wink}}} LOL great story. Thanks for reading and commenting.
I can totally relate to this.
Joyce
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Sorry, I guess that means you have humiliated yourself too.
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That was laugh out loud funny!
My husband has a simple phone and he keeps it on vibrate so he didn’t think it necessary to turn off during church. One day, somehow, his pocket pressed one of the side buttons and his phone said, “Please say a command.” He didn’t think it was his phone so ignored it till it repeated the request at which time he took it out of his pocket and handed it to me. Another time, new phone still on vibrate, but new discovery. He can’t get it to not beep loudly when he misses a call. Discovered this in church, of course.
Now he leaves the phone in the car during church…
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LOL – “Please say a command.” At least it didn’t say “Please say a commandment.” Thanks for the story.
This was hilarious!!! During naptime, I was helping a fellow teacher find ringtones. For some reason, my phone was on max volume-and I couldn’t get it to stop, either. I’m glad I’m not the only one this happens to =P
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Do you still take nap time. You lucky girl. Just kidding. No, you are not the only one. Misery loves company. LOL
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‘Dad’s’ was even funnier than yours Rhonda!
When I first got my phone I was standing in the Warehouse and ‘someones’ phone kept ringing, everyone was looking at each other I along with everyone else was thinking – prat, why don’t they answer – you guessed it, it was MINE…oops EVERYONE was looking when I finally got it out and said ‘hello?’ {very red face}.
My family is pretty good at humiliating ourselves
Your story is quite funny too. LOL – Thanks for sharing it.
Haha, that was really funny. Becareful next time so that it won’t happen again. I would love to know more of your stories! I am really having fun reading it.
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Thanks. And now I am terrified to use my phone in quiet places in public. LOL. Welcome to laugh quotes.