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Original poster

To want to wake the baby up and ask him where my mobile phone is?

81 replies

BoattoBolivia · 19/08/2011 22:13

I know I am really as he is only 17 months and will have no idea what I am on about and you NEVER wake a sleeping toddler at night but WHERE THE FUCK DID HE PUT IT?
Yes, we have tried ringing it, but it is not connecting and I'm sure it was on and charged, so he has put it somewhere that blocks the signal.
AAARRRGGGHHH!

OP posts:
Andrewofgg · 20/08/2011 10:17

The suspense is killing us . . .

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 20/08/2011 10:18

You don't need strength, cunning and guile. Just a climber with toddler logic. The end result is much the same.

ImperialBlether · 20/08/2011 10:20

Me too, lifechanger!

LadyFlumpalot · 20/08/2011 10:21

This is like that book "Diary of a one year old" - I am expecting the baby in the OP to turn round and say to the OP "Aha! you thought you had foiled me, but you have not! You shall never find your communication device, it is mine! Mine I tell you! Mwah ha ha ha ha!"

Tanith · 20/08/2011 10:29

My first check would have been the loo, which is DD's favourite hiding place at the moment. I have so far removed dollies, a toy train, half the dolls house furniture, a loo roll, 3 pairs of my undies, a metal whisk and a hairbrush just in this last week.

Have you tried the oven? In and under?

Tanith · 20/08/2011 10:34

Thought she was quiet!!

I have just investigated and found all my socks in the bathroom sink :)

LittleMissFlustered · 20/08/2011 10:38

My son had his own personal handbag (a little card carrier bag a bracelet came in) that he used to try to fill with the contents of my bag. Is yours trying to start a man bag too?

twinsister · 20/08/2011 10:40

where did you go out yesterday...is it in bottom of the pram? thats my dd"s favourite place. Or wedged into carseat

WhereonearthamI · 20/08/2011 10:43

I don't want to scare you, but could he have taken it out in his buggy yesterday, and them dropped it somewhere? Hope not!

lifechanger · 20/08/2011 10:47

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hiccymapops · 20/08/2011 11:34

lifechanger, I'm mumsnetting on my phone while I feed dd, stop making me laugh! Grin

TheMonster · 20/08/2011 11:42

We work DS up once to tell us where he had put the remote. He knew where it was.

Hiccy, I didn't know you'd had a DD! Is that DC number 3?

hiccymapops · 20/08/2011 11:57

Yes it's our 3rd and final dc Smile Sorry, I'm rubbish and have been a very infrequent mumsnetter between ds2 and dd, have we chatted before?

TheMonster · 20/08/2011 12:16

I've namechanged several times - I think you'll remember me as wotulookinat.

sarahtigh · 20/08/2011 12:44

if you had it yesterdya morning could you have lost it at Zoo ring lost property there, in case he took it with him and lost it there

QOD · 20/08/2011 12:52

wedged down the back of a car seat? My friend just found 6 assorted DS games in her car (all lost over the last 5 or so years)

Original poster
BoattoBolivia · 20/08/2011 13:35

Ok, you mad lot.......just been out with dd to the hairdressers and got back to a smug dh who found it.........

......in the top shelf of the dishwasher!!!! We had both checked the bottom, but had missed the top and, yes, it has been on! Only on the Eco setting, so not very hot, but suspect I need a new phone now. Dh is chuckling as I have been resisting for so long, it was an old Nokia with no camera or Internet, just text and phone, but now I will have to give in to modern technology.

lifechanger I think you need to get a life, or write a novel, your imagination is faaaaar too vivid, but you have made us all chuckle about ds and his plans for world domination! Think you may have a point Grin

Thank you for all your sensible, and not so sensible, suggestions.

OP posts:
QOD · 20/08/2011 14:25

dishwasher!! what a little monkey!

Andrewofgg · 20/08/2011 14:26

Laughing, laughing, laughing fit to wet myself!

Don't ever again say men are completely useless.

Partly, certainly, mainly, I date say, but not completely.

Andrewofgg · 20/08/2011 14:26

dare say.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 20/08/2011 14:30

Take out the battery, put the phone in a bag with some rice and stick it in the airing cupboard fro a couple of days. Or just take out the battery and ignore for a few days. It might be fine once it's dry.

Mandy2003 · 20/08/2011 14:34

Old Nokia's are well robust! Strip it down as much as you can, leave all the parts in a container of dry rice for 24 hours then in a warm place for a day or 2. I actually put mine on top of the radiator on a folded towel.

Revived the phone twice this way, it is in a drawer now but probably still working after being ignored for 4 years!

Mandy2003 · 20/08/2011 14:34

Oh, cross post Puffin - we're right aren't we!?

backwardpossom · 20/08/2011 14:40

You could also clean any connections with a bit of vodka (well, that's as close to pure alcohol you'll get in my house) - I did that with an old nokia once after dropping it in dishwater and the thing worked for another 3 years after that before I eventually upgraded...

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 20/08/2011 14:46

But not vodka and tonic. They don't like that Blush