Each one of the children thought the other had spoken to him, I think he had four kids, and it took a while for them to all get together and realize none of them had seen or heard from him.
I think of it as like child 1 calls and leaves a message, talks to child 2 mentioning in passing that they'd left a message for dad and hadn't heard from him, child 2 calls dad and leaves a message, and so on until they all realize no one has seen or heard from dad for a while. Then they take a day to mull it all over, go over to his house, look around, have another family conference, and the next day they file a police report and start getting serious.
But what a great story. And with a happy ending, at least for them.
“Sounds like a Twilight Zone Episode. At the end they would pan over to the other car with the dead guy in it.”
Can’t be, it has a happy ending.
A twilight zone episode would have them switch bodies.