Saturday 09.30 AM
Boarding call. Swipe to set the phone on airplane mode. Have already called home to say that my phone would be switched off and that I would find my way home - no need for a ride or anything - and had given an ETA estimate.
Touchdown. Zurich airport. Reached for the phone. Swiped upwards from the bottom of the screen to turn off airplane mode.
Stopped. Rolling to the airport building. Get off. Need to check when the next train home is and buy a ticket. Go to the SBB app.
Oops. It doesn't work on airplane mode! Search for the blue signboard with train timings. Ah. Have enough time. Queue up (impatiently - typisch schwyzer) behind tourists at a ticket machine and buy a paper ticket using real plastic.
All set and on the train. Grab my iPad to continue reading Krishna Key. Yes, dear reader, it's on airplane mode as well. Nice mild day so the walk home from the train station was no hardship.
You know, this was surprisingly easier than I had imagined.
Perhaps because it was Saturday. The Swiss tend not to make spontaneous calls.
Perhaps because I had dealt with the work email before I left the hotel in the morning. No nagging thoughts of missing something.
Perhaps because I just lazed around home for the day watching TV and reading. Alright, there were a couple of occasions when I reached for the phone wanting to look up a character on screen. Settled back when I did not find the phone next to me.
Oh, the phantom vibration - like a missing limb feeling itchy. It happened. Left back jeans pocket.
Remembered at one stage that I hadn't checked in for my Sunday flight. Ignored the temptation.
Moulu had said she would call, and I had said : try home phone. It didn't ring.
No phone on my bedside table to check the time at night. Replaced by the Omega.
Sunday morning. Wake up. Get outa bed. Drag a comb across my head - not :)
Set aside clothes for next trip. Breakfast. Call mother using landline. Gym.
10 AM. Turned off airplane mode. All is well.
Confessions:
1. Had the iMac turned on since we need it to watch Apple TV.
2. This blog written on the iPhone but while in airplane mode.
