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Thrown out of a game for stealing a phone

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Smallpotatoes, May 28, 2022.

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  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Wonder if there's a surveillance camera in what I assume was a press box. I'd pay to watch that footage.
     
  2. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    I keep my phone on vibrate and have missed calls when it's been in my pocket.

    But to have someone single you out and point to a specific pocket to find the phone, that pretty much makes you look like a thief and liar.

    Perhaps, though, it's a conspiracy. Everyone in the pressbox met secretly before the game and decided to put all the phones near each other. And someone dropped a phone in your pocket, like a Bourne-movie situation at the Gard du Fabricacion meeting, and then they unhatched the scheme to get you out.
     
  3. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    Attention-seeker. You always concoct these posts where something weird happened to you. Fiction writing might be your game.
    You should always keep your phone in the same pocket. So if you tried to put it there and there was one there already, oops.
    I don't believe there were a lot of phones on a counter. Is it like checking your guns at the door?
    You're a fake and everybody here knows it.
     
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  4. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    If so, mission accomplished.
     
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  5. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Nice to know nobody here ever made a mistake.
     
  6. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Tell me exactly what you think I did.
     
  7. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    I think you swiped a candlestick at the concession stand from Professor Plum and were determined to create mayhem in the pressbox. Then the phone conspiracy thwarted your plans and you were cast out.


    Hell, that's as good a tale as your original one.
     
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  8. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    On other words I’m a thief and a liar?
     
  9. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    My .02 because of inflation and all that:

    I haven't been in a press box in a very long time, but some of the things I participate in (at least until the next spike, ARGHHH!) are hosted by people who ask everyone to put their phones in a box or basket or in our purses in another room while we're knitting, talking about books, in Bible study, or whatever old lady thing we're doing. The box or basket is a good idea for people who may be called by loved ones so we can get to our phones quickly. I have a Samsung Galaxy in a black Otter Box. It seems like half the phones are some variation of that and I have to admit I find my phone when it rings or someone turns it on and starts cooing over my cat's picture. Otherwise it could be hard to just pick it out of the lineup of Samsungs in Otter Boxes.

    Gratuitous post of my cat's picture: keety.jpg
     
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  10. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

  11. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    So it was your cat! What's your cat got against @Smallpotatoes?
     
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  12. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    Why is Jimmy Fallon trying to roll a big ball over himself? Not that I mind, but....

    Marigold can be shady. She gets away with it because she's cute.

    My point was I could see someone mistaking one very basic phone for another one. Ah dunno. I wouldn't lay mine in a pile of phones in a press box, but having not been in one in a while, there may some reason people do it now.
     
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