What An Idiot

Last night I went to a poetry reading and book signing by Nikki Giovanni in the city at Barnes and Noble. It was great. Unfortunately I left my cell phone. I discovered this when Erin sent Brandon a text telling him that someone had called Elyse from my phone saying that they had found it at the library. Apparently he might not have had a great command of the English language since a bookstore and a library are not the same thing. He told Elyse that if I would call the phone, he would get it back to me. Elyse tried to explain to him that the reasonable thing to do was to leave it at the information desk at Barnes and Noble, but he didn't understand. So what he wanted me to do was call my phone which had the ringer turned off and about 1 hour of charge left. Even though we were already on the train home, I turned around and went back to the store. Sure enough no phone left at the information desk. I tried calling the phone for 20 minutes using Brandon's phone. No answer. When I called this morning and it went straight to voice mail I knew that it was futile to believe I would get it back. I'm sure he didn't write down any of the numbers in my history. Tonight I gave B & N one last call before deciding to go buy a new phone. One of my friends tried to convince me that he was trying to be helpful. I say, "What an IDIOT!"