ICEGary
Friday, May 2, 2025
So my late stepfather, Gary, he’s been dead for 12 years. Late doesn’t really sound. But, um. he was the first and only person I’ve ever seen to diligently maintain and insist others maintain the practices of in one’s cell phone contacts, the people who should be contacted in case of emergency, whatever that might be, to prepend the acronym ICE, capital ICE, in case of emergency, I. Um. And this should be a long forgotten thing. Uh. But due to the magic of the way that Apple services work.. I, for an extended period of time, but not very often, so like, very intermittently, maybe, like, once every 18 months on average. I think it happened twice, two or three times.. I don’t remember why my contacts were synced with Gary’s. That is going back too far. But for whatever reason we had, shared contacts, I don’t know if that was the practice, back then. Um. But.. I swear to you, uh, for some unknown reason without provocation that I could ever figure out, my iCloud contacts, uh, would change back to having the fucking ice acronym in the beginning, which, as you can probably imagine,. Um, in any sort of modern contact system, just really fucks things up. Uh It’s very cute and earnest because if anything, for like the sheer amount of contacts that he. did that for, like, uh. all of his stepchildren, and by stepchildren, I don’t even know what the term is. He married. Yeah, I guess it is stepchildren. Adult, stepchildren. It was more than ten. More than 10 contacts had ice the beginning. And. Um. You know, now I think you can designate one emergency contact, I think.. on iOS now. But, um.. Yeah, I guess here’s the.. It’s just funny. That’s the whole story. I. There are a lot of things I feel like, generally, if you wanted to know um. My selfish lament regarding my stepfather’s death, the most self centered one, is that, like.. I was a very like, tolerant kid and stuff and found him very amusing when a lot of people found him really irritating. But like,. I was almost to the age, almost there, where I would have really started to appreciate, all of his particular eccentricities to go on about that, but… And one of the things, like, you know, basically at what I’m trying to say is,.. regardless of what caused it,, the few times that that happened were somehow really nice, like being haunted by fucking., like the way that you discover such a thing, by the way, is like you’re I’m searching for a contact in a search bar that I, you know, like my sister and I don’t see it. Like, it doesn’t appear. Searching for, uh, you know, Amy. It’s not on the fucking list. Uh. And then you go through the whole thing and see that, actually acronym. But yeah, Being Haunted by Gary’s.. You know, I’ve never looked it up. I’m not going to, actually. I hope it’s just something that he did.