holey smoke
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Found a working cell today. I've found three working phones and the attempts to return are as follows:
1) Call number listed in "personal info" section. Was the guy who owned the phone before the person who lost it. "You didn't find my phone. I'm talking to you on my phone." Turns out he sold it on Craigslist and had no idea to whom. By the time he had returned my call, phone went dead. No charger. Threw the phone in the box with the dead ones.
2) Phone worked but had been shut off. Texted from my phone that I had found the phone to the number, figuring they had a new phone with the same number. Long text explaining how and where I found the phone and that I could leave it at the local grocery store's service desk for them to pick up. Got a two word response: "Who this?" Sent the same text again. No reply. Threw the phone in the box with the dead ones.
3) Today. No personal info. Called the emergency contact. Told her I found the person's phone I was calling from. She thought I was joking. No, I said. Please call this phone's owner on a different number and ask her (She had answered the call using the phone owner's first name) to call her cell so I can get it back to her. She finally decided I wasn't joking and said she would. Phone rings an hour later. It's a guy. "Do you know where the phone is?" he says. "Uh, what?" I say. "DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE PHONE IS?" I pause. "Are you asking me if I know where the phone is that you just called and I just answered you on? If it's that phone you are asking about, yes, I do know where it is. I'm holding to to my head right now." He asks, "Where is it, where are you?" I tell him where I found the phone and that I'm willing to drop it off at the local grocery store for him to pick up. "How about you take it to the Police Station instead?" He says. No, the grocery store it is. He relents but says he'll meet me there with the police. I'm getting freaked out. I say OK but take it to a different place instead and leave him a voicemail telling him where it was.
I've never lost a phone. But if I did, I'd sure be nice to someone trying to return it. And thank them. With green if they'd take it (I wouldn't). Today really put me off even trying to return cell phones. I don't think I'll try again. Granted, I have no idea what was going on with any of these people (the second two, anyway). My wife thinks maybe the woman today had her purse snatched or something and they thought I was the bad guy. Don't ask me why they thought the bad guy would then call and offer to get the phone back to her. But I sure was treated like a bad guy. I think future working phones will go right in the box with the rest.
1) Call number listed in "personal info" section. Was the guy who owned the phone before the person who lost it. "You didn't find my phone. I'm talking to you on my phone." Turns out he sold it on Craigslist and had no idea to whom. By the time he had returned my call, phone went dead. No charger. Threw the phone in the box with the dead ones.
2) Phone worked but had been shut off. Texted from my phone that I had found the phone to the number, figuring they had a new phone with the same number. Long text explaining how and where I found the phone and that I could leave it at the local grocery store's service desk for them to pick up. Got a two word response: "Who this?" Sent the same text again. No reply. Threw the phone in the box with the dead ones.
3) Today. No personal info. Called the emergency contact. Told her I found the person's phone I was calling from. She thought I was joking. No, I said. Please call this phone's owner on a different number and ask her (She had answered the call using the phone owner's first name) to call her cell so I can get it back to her. She finally decided I wasn't joking and said she would. Phone rings an hour later. It's a guy. "Do you know where the phone is?" he says. "Uh, what?" I say. "DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE PHONE IS?" I pause. "Are you asking me if I know where the phone is that you just called and I just answered you on? If it's that phone you are asking about, yes, I do know where it is. I'm holding to to my head right now." He asks, "Where is it, where are you?" I tell him where I found the phone and that I'm willing to drop it off at the local grocery store for him to pick up. "How about you take it to the Police Station instead?" He says. No, the grocery store it is. He relents but says he'll meet me there with the police. I'm getting freaked out. I say OK but take it to a different place instead and leave him a voicemail telling him where it was.
I've never lost a phone. But if I did, I'd sure be nice to someone trying to return it. And thank them. With green if they'd take it (I wouldn't). Today really put me off even trying to return cell phones. I don't think I'll try again. Granted, I have no idea what was going on with any of these people (the second two, anyway). My wife thinks maybe the woman today had her purse snatched or something and they thought I was the bad guy. Don't ask me why they thought the bad guy would then call and offer to get the phone back to her. But I sure was treated like a bad guy. I think future working phones will go right in the box with the rest.