This morning, I was supposed to be at class at 9:30AM but I woke up pretty early. I was ready to leave the house by 8:30 so I was walking around collecting all my necessities (backpack, phone, wallet, keys, tablet) but could not find my tablet anywhere. I knew that I'd had it the night before when I got home (around 10:30PM prior) but it was not in any of my usual places. I looked around in my car, the living room, the furniture around the family computers, my bed, the kitchen, etc. I even looked on the front porch because I'd found my cat outside the night before and carried him in so I wondered if I'd dropped it.
No such luck.
After about 20 minutes of extensive searching, I finally gave up and decided to leave and look for it later. I got in my car and turned on my radio. Strangely enough, it read "BT READY" (Bluetooth Ready). I rarely ever disable the Bluetooth on my tablet unless the battery is low. I pressed the PLAY button and sure enough, my Spotify playlist started playing. I was rather dumbfounded but figured that my tablet must be in the car and I just hadn't located it yet, so I started to turn around to leave my driveway.
As soon as I started reversing into the 90 degree corner on my driveway, the radio started going all static and jumping in and out. I shifted back into drive and crawled back towards the house and it became clear again. That did not make any sense to me. It meant that the tablet had to have either been in the garage (I hadn't been in there since the previous afternoon) or outside. I pointed my car like a metal detector looking for treasure at the deck where we have some grills, the water hose, and our street dumpsters. I remembered that I had thrown away some trash from my car the night before so I walked over to our three street dumpsters wondering if I had somehow inadvertently dropped it in one of the dumpsters (I've dropped my phones and wallet in trash cans multiple times when throwing away other items), but I still could not find it. I then looked over the concrete wall at the end of the driveway into the backyard to see if it'd fallen down there in case I'd set it on top of a dumpster lid and opened it (thereby knocking it off the wall). Finally, I looked up again and saw my lost tablet lying on the wooden shelf of our barbecue grill. I'd apparently set it there last night when my arms were full from throwing trash away and carrying my stuff into the house. It's a good thing I found it then, because by the time I came home, it was raining pretty steadily. Electronics don't mix well with water.
In other words (tl;dr), I left my tablet outside all night and rescued it from the incoming rain.
