PANIC!?

My girlfriend pushed the panic button! I really don’t blame her.. When she couldn’t get me on the phone in the morning for more than two hours, things went crazy.

Let me rewind a bit to the point where I thought it would be ‘etiquette’  to actually switch the phone into its silent mode at work yesterday. This is something i rarely do, since I don’t get many calls and the phone is usually never left unattended ( I have this old habit of answering without even letting it ring once). So, with the phone on silent, I continue into the night. I call my parents, my brother and my girlfriend and so I still haven’t seen that my phone’s profile is set as silent..

I wake up at 6 in the morning and to find out that I’m cold, with a cough, a slight ache in my head and tremendously tired; to make matters worse, the power goes out and I decide to sleep some more. I wake up, a bit drowsy, covered in sweat and feeling hot. I check the time on my phone out of habit and find out that it has been two hours – 8 of the clock. The lights come back this time and that makes me decide that I should cool off and sleep some more and off I went to sleep.

I’m woken up later by an angrily vibrating phone dancing on top of a book near my bed. I answer the phone to find out that its my dad – who is really pissed because no one could find me for that last two hour, and he goes “Are you still sleeping!?” and I’m like.. “woah! I was not feeling too well so I thought I’d just sleep in today.. I did tell Pooja about it..” after an odd silence he says, “we’ve been looking all over for you!! you were not answering your phone! you were not online anywhere! you weren’t on gmail/gtalk! nothing on twitter! and Manu is on his way to your place now!!”

Damn.. and I thought today would be uneventful! I call everyone to clear up this mess, especially my brother who was on his way and he says, “Too much social presence? If you are not updating your status, people start thinking you are dead.. rofl!”