Missing Cell

I lost my cell phone yesterday.

This morning, thinking that I left it somewhere in the office, I tried to call my cell phone from my work phone to see if I could hear it ringing. My aim was to expose its location as it lay hidden in a drawer, under some paper, or stuffed in a cardboard box, or kicked under a desk next to a trash can.

So I let it ring... straining to hear beyond the phone... out into my cube, out into the neighboring cubes and aisle ways. Searching for a responding muffled ring, I only heard... silence.

Until, unexpectedly, someone answered. A female voice... "Hello, this is Anton Palmer's cell phone!"