Okay, so as Space implied, there were a lot of irl issues going on with our team, including myself, and, while a lot of them aren't worth talking about, there is one story on my end that, while relatively minor in the grand schemes, deserves to be discussed because my god, is it freaky.
So, you all know about American Girl dolls, right? Well, at one point (I think it was early-2000s) they ran a line called "My Twinn" where you would send them a picture of yourself and they would use that to make an American Girl doll based on you to keep for yourself. Sounds great, right? Well, the thing is that the material used for these doll, especially for the eyes...
...didn't age the best.
Well, me and my sister were talking about these dolls and I, having never heard of My Twinn dolls, decided to ask my sis for an example pic. She texted the me the above pic and, I kid you not, the moment the pic went through, our call dropped. No input from either of us; it just... dropped.
I texted her my reaction ("OH GOD"), the text didn't go through. I thought I just had bad signal, moved, and tried again. Nope. I give up, put my phone down, and forget about it as I get lunch.
One meal later, I look at my phone and I'm getting tons of panic texts from my family, freaking out about me not picking up their calls.
I have no missed call notifications on my phone.
I tried to text back to my mom. It doesn't go through. I tried this everyone. Not a single one worked. I go to call my mom to tell her what's up.
THE PHONE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO RINGING. IT JUST HUNG UP BY ITSELF IMMEDATELY.
I COULDN'T CONTACT ANYONE FOR HOURS.
MY PHONE HAD BEEN CURSED BY THIS DOLL.
Oh, and I should mention I'm housesitting for my parents this week, so I'm completely alone for all of this.
I eventually resorted to borrowing a neighbor's phone to tell my parents I'm fine, I'm not dead, you can call off the search squad. My sister, meanwhile, had assumed that I was so offended by the image that I had turned off my phone in protest.