my roommate just dropped her phone down the side of the couch for the third time in the three months we’ve lived here. neither i nor chinchilla have this problem with the couch. for some reason i’m the only person with the spatial reasoning and engineering skills to retrieve it, which is performed by maneuvering a scarf into the side of the couch with a long knitting needle and using it as a sort of phone rescue sling. 

every time it happens she stares at me miserably for a long moment, like perhaps she thinks i ate it