I left the hotel on Sunday afternoon and realized that I had left my watch on the table in the room. Instead of going back up to the room, I decided to use my cell phone for a watch. When I returned to the room later that evening, I did not think about the watch.

On Monday morning, when I was getting ready for work, I could not find the watch. I remembered that I had left it on the table the previous day and had to use my cell, but I thought that I might have, absentmindedly, moved it when I came in the previous evening (although I did not think so). I was late for work so did not have time to look for the watch.

When I returned to the room Monday evening I looked for the watch. I checked under the table, check through the garbage, checked around the chair cushion, checked under the chair, pulled up the cushions on the couch, checked under the couch, dumped my purse and work bag out on the bed, checked under the bed and checked the pockets of the clothing I had worn the previous day. I even checked in my vehicle, even though I was certain that I had left the watch on the table in the room and never had it in my vehicle. My watch was not in the room.

The Tuesday morning I reported what I believe to be the theft of my watch. When I returned to the room later that evening I called the manager about my missing watch. He told me that the lock on my door had been “interrogated” and that it showed that only my key had been used to enter the room. Ok, so unless the watch grew legs and jumped off of the table, and grew arms and opened the door, it could not have gotten off of the table and out of the room unless something happened that should not have.

Bottom line: don't leave anything of value in a place where it can grow legs and arms and leave the room all by itself.