Basically a roundabout way of asking: How much do people really care about you?
I know I could vanish for like 48 hours and my parents and older brother probably wouldn’t even want to look for me (I’m around 18-25, not a minor so they have no legal responsibilities). Nobody in the world cares about me. I mean they already told me that in my face that if I went missing, they won’t care.
If it was a weekend it would be a few days. A workday surely by noon if they hadn’t heard from me. I’ve been sick and had coworkers stop by and check on me if I haven’t replied to text or phone calls.
I don’t think this shows how much people care about me. This would show how much people depend on me. I’m the breadwinner and major organizer of my family. They’d fall apart within hours.
I’m a bachelor living alone with family in town, it could be anywhere from 2 hours to 2 weeks.
By the first evening by 9pm, when they didn’t get dinner.
I would take that “we don’t care” as an invitation to leave and start a new life with people who do care. Nobody should say that out loud, what assholes, but since they don’t need you, you are free.
I don’t leave the secure area much, but I get the question.
I have an airtag on my keys and my wife probably has geofencing because I don’t go far. She’ll have the cops on the phone inside of 2 blocks. This area has a Lot of cameras so they’ll have a leg up. And until they go through my pockets and ditch the air tag, she’ll have a trace on them.
In the evening. In the 7+ years since my first kid was born, I haven’t missed a single evening at home, to wish them a good night. I even excuse myself from business trips.
I have thought about this because I don’t plan to have kids, and I might end up living alone in my later years. So, how long would it take for someone to find me after I have died?
Right now is it not about caring more for what is unusual. If my friends or family knew something was wrong, they would report it right away. This actually happened once with a friend. When I was very sick and didn’t answer her calls. She tried every number she could find. Eventually, she only found my sister’s phone number, who then contacted me to check if I was okay. My friend was extremely worried, she thought I was in the hospital or something.
Nice try, ICE.
talks into the radio
“the jig is up, TAKE THEM! And also burn their citizenship papers”
My Fiancee would notice very quickly. My family it would be weeks if not longer
About fifteen seconds, since that’s how often my kids ask me for stuff.
As a parent of two young kids, there’s definitely times where getting kidnapped sounds good.
I need a deadman switch… maybe watch a log file for a program I use daily or something.
“If you’re reading this, they got me.”
I guess I’m nabbed when I’m watering the garden. Husband wakes up a few hours later. Goes to look for me. Can’t find me. Freaks the fuck out, gets my twin up to look for me. Now they’re both freaked out. Husband probably calls the cops. So a few hours at most.
My wife would be freaking out about two minutes after she realized I hadn’t come back inside, I wasn’t answering my phone, and I wasn’t in any of the usual places around the house.
Everyone else? Weeks.
Depends on the day. Between a few hours and a few days. If I’ve got something due at work later in the day, hours. If I have no hard deliverables for a few weeks then one of the bars where I’m a regular and play music would be the first to figure it out. All the bartenders and sound guys know how to get in touch with me.
Mom would figure it out in a month or so.
I drop off the earth pretty frequently but I always keep my gig and work commitments or call if I can’t. So it depends on my next commitment, which happens pretty much weekly.
I work from home and always tell my husband when I’m going out. He works from the office 1-2 days a week and is home other days. So depending on the day it’d take minutes or around dinner time. Although he’d probably text my phone and wait for hours before contacting others.
