I wonder if there’s some sort of a record …
It’s a not uncommon scenario. You’re somewhere and you realize you lost your cell phone. Where could it be?
I was on the other end of that today – I found the cell phone. It was between the rack and the fluorescent bulb in front of the bacon display. Of course working for the store there was no question about keeping it – though it was a pretty nice phone. I don’t know models, but it said Motorola, had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and indicated it was 4G (I wasn’t completely sure we had 4G service here, but apparently we do.)
Anyway, I couldn’t leave my work cart on the sales floor while bringing the phone to the service desk, so I took my cart to one of the “Employees only” areas where it would be out of the way. Thinking about it, I decided someone would have to try to reach the owner, so I looked it over. Seeing a number identified as “My Wife <3” I decided she’d certainly be able to track him down, so I called it. I told her my first name and that I’d found her husband’s phone at the store and would be leaving it at Customer Service. I also asked what his name was so I could tell them who it belonged to. (I won’t say his full name here, but his first name was Michael.)
It probably takes 2-3 minutes to get to Customer Service from my area of the store – not like I was in any huge hurry. But as I walk up I see a guy there in a blue work uniform with a patch that says “Mike” on it, so I say “I gather this must be yours.” He’d probably gone there to look for it when his wife called on his work phone to say I was bringing it up. (Either that or he was in the checkout line when she did – no other way he would have gotten there first. But yes, he did say she’d called him on his work phone.)
Certainly fastest lost cell phone recovery I’ve heard of.
