If you suddenly disappeared from all activities other than contact with your family, who would call or check on you?

Most of us are retired in my group, and we’re pretty good about keeping in touch with each other. It’s comforting to have someone call if life’s been a little too rough.

My kids would. My middle child first, then my youngest, then my oldest.

A couple of my friends would, but only after about a week. So if I have fallen down the stairs, my dog would probably have eaten most of my body by then.

LOL! Your dog would not do that! Just…fall down the stairs.

Oh, I dunno, @chyna‘s a pretty tasty little morsel…

People from a local 12 step group would check on me, but only if I disappeared for more than a couple weeks.

Work would check on me after two work days without hearing from me.

Friends & work clients.

Friends would miss me long before family knew anything. It would probably be about two to three days before my walking buddy would call and a week or two before the others would start wondering.

I think eventually one of my Zimba instructor friends would. I help teach every Sunday, so if I didn’t show that would be odd. I’m usually in class on Monday nights, so it would be odd if I didn’t show up two weeks in a row.

I don’t think they would call the first time I didn’t show, but eventually.

Also, a friend of mine texts or calls me at least once a week, plus we sometimes carpool to Zumba together. I think she would come knocking on my door if I didn’t respond to her after a couple of tries.

I fell in my room yesterday, landing on storage boxes, scattering them and leaving e dazed. Not sure how long I lay in a heap before flopping and twisting, give up, try again, repeat. I finally got myself pulled from the wreckage. If I had not been successful, my VA volunteer would be looking for me Tuesday.
If I failed to respond when she showed up, she would eventually call police, but it might be a couple more days first.
My daughter? She would assume I was napping, and come go without checking. I could stink, bloat, decay, she would not concern herself.
Sound bitter? That’s how my days feel.

I think Plern would. She’s the manager at a vegan Thai place I go to once a week.

Work would notice I was missing, send a bunch of escalatingly threatening emails, and (maybe) leave messages on my cell phone. They’d give up after a couple weeks and go through the process of firing me.

Some of my students would likely email me wondering about stuff we are working on.

My aunt would call me after about a week or two — then get concerned.

It would be months to never for anyone else who knows me. They’d assume I was busy.

My wife would probably file a police report that night.

Putting aside family members, per @Jeruba‘s question, I guess it would be some of my instructors and classmates at the health club. I work out 6 days per week and know many people there; unless I mention an absence in advance (e.g. vacation or busy personal times), they worry about me. It’s all very nice, and I’m grateful to have that in my life.

Coincidentally I was reading http://boredomtherapy.com/mysterious-case-of-joyce-vincent/ just the other day and your question has been playing on my mind a lot.

Oh. No family members? Well…nobody then.