I was having dinner with friends in one of the restaurants in the Banilad Town Center last night, when a friend who went out to withdraw left her phone on the table, tucked under the menu. I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to pull a prank and keep her phone and so I did. The dinner went on and my friend started looking for her phone, the usual recalling of where she left it and we pretended not to know. She then started to suspect if I hid it and I tried my best to put on a poker face and insisted I don’t have it.
We were headed to the spa to get a massage when I realized l couldn’t find my phone anywhere. My blackberry with contacts I have transferred from my Iphone and some of them from my old phones from 5 years ago. Now I started to get a little worried. We searched my bags and my friend’s car and it wasn’t anywhere.
Before the dinner in BTC, we went to Piazza Elesia in Talamban and checked out Emerald Isle, it’s an Irish Bar and Restaurant and I was quite sure I put my phone on the table when I browsed through their menu. And so we called the spa to reschedule the massage 20 minutes later. My friends were teasing me as to what replacement phone I was going to get the next day. I pretended not to care so much, but I was secretly praying it was in the bar, and that no one took it.
Right after, we pulled over in the bar’s driveway, the waitress saw me and started to make some signs with her hand indicating “Cellphone”. Yes, I left my phone and they kept it. I went in to pick it up, thanked everyone and headed back to BTC.
Talk about paralysis, yes that is what will happen to me if I didn’t find my phone. A big part of me would be lifeless and I couldn’t imagine losing that amount of information and worse breaking my connection to the world. Thank you to everyone in Emerald Isle Bar, they just opened on July 8, 2011. The place has very nice interiors and everyone is very pleasant. I haven’t tried their food but I am sure given the effort they made to the construction of the place, the food would have gone through the same process. Have a beer, the next time you are in the area, it is not everyday that we have places with very nice and honest staff. I couldn't find a picture of the place online, my blackberry by the way dead, and out of battery when I left it in the bar.
Today, I am going to create a back up for my contacts and I suggest you do the same. It’s just funny how the joke I pulled on my friend was on me, the whole time. Anah!!! Sorry nalang jud... ROFLMAO!!!
