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My Lost iPhone and the Unbreakable iPhone Experience
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 02:12PM iPhone "takes a dinging and keeps on ringing," apparently.
As for me, I'm having funeral services for mine today. The iPhone has many features, but, unfortunately, NOT a homing device for the owner to use to find its location.
I seriously want to cry or be sick or something. It was my lifeline, a combination mobile and home phone, and although I should have, I never backed up my photos, calendar, notes or anything. Now I am completely lost. How attached we can be to our technology. Stupid Apple, or it's either AT&T -- one of them -- does not offer the owner an option to get insurance on the phone. So, if you lose it, well, that's your tough luck.
Having still a shred of belief in good Samaritans, even in places like DC, and trusting in the power of Google, Craigslist, Twitter and other social media, I have posted everywhere I can think of, in the hopes that this someone will read and respond to my pleas. I also contacted the lost and found services where I work and sent in a request to the Metro's Lost and Found, because you never know. I called and called my number, left my email addys in many of the ads, and I texted the phone from different online sites, also relaying my contact info.
This blog entry that I wrote already appeared in the Google Alert that I set. Unfortunately, there's not much more I can do beyond this, except maybe set another Google Alert for "found" AND "iPhone" AND "Metro" as keywords.
I guess that's what I get for always being in such a hurry that I don't take the time to think twice or even notice my surroundings. I've got the whole routine of the commute to and from work so ingrained into my body memory that yesterday as I headed home from dinner with a friend, I fouled up. It was a later hour than I ever travel home, around 7 p.m., and my mind picked out just the word Greenbelt from the train operator's spiel; so I deboarded. I didn't realize he was saying what he says at each stop: "This is the Green Line to Greenbelt." I needed to get off at the Greenbelt Station, but, instead, it wasn't until I found myself on the downstairs level at the College Park Station, totally disoriented for a moment, that I realized my mistake. Luckily, I quickly made my way back up to the platform, and in less than a minute, I was back on my route. That just exemplifies how set in our ways we can get, so that the whole world outside of us becomes a homogenized backdrop whose details we miss, a mere blur in our peripheral vision that we must travel through to reach our regularly visited destinations.
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Reader Comments (1)
Awe man - that's stinky. I lost a normal cell phone about 18 months ago - and learned it was missing after a friend who'd been called by the dork-face who decided to make obscene phone calls informed me it was missing. Within 24 hours, the scum who was too dense to call the entry marked "home" to report a missing phone downloaded nearly $200 of garbage from the web. My only saving grace is that 6 weeks later, the Secret Service called to investigate my missing phone because this same idiot thief not only called 911 12+ times, but threatened the life of the President. Karma sure was unkind to that man :) Even still, I believe in the power of positive thinking - and pray that the person who finds your phone has a strong moral make-up and tries to contact you.