A few weeks ago, I lost my iPhone. It was the end of a long and stressful week
and we were expecting some folks in for the weekend. I don’t normally carry my phone around at the
house but I had it with me because we were waiting to hear from our guests
about their arrival plans. I was down
visiting with our neighbors. I put my phone on top of our van because I needed my hands free for something
and of course, I forgot about it. A few
minutes later, our family loaded up in the van to go get food for our incoming
guests. We drove away from our home,
with my phone on the roof of the van. We
were about twenty minutes into our drive, when I remembered that I left my
phone on the roof. We immediately called
our neighbors who were still outside when we left our home and they searched
for my phone while I called it from Tony’s phone. I called my phone about 60 times that night, and a few times someone answered but they wouldn’t speak and would immediately
hang up. My phone was gone.
A few days later, Tony loaded a program to find my
iPhone. This program locks your phone
and allows you to put a message on the locked screen. The message said that the phone was lost and
gave Tony’s number to contact if found.
We also offered a reward. Exactly
a week later, we got a phone call about my phone. A man in a city 220 kilometers away from us
had my phone! He bought it off a kid on
a bus. After purchasing a charger and
charging my phone, the man saw our message.
We offered him 2000 rupees to return my phone, that’s about $31 US. The next day, he called back and said that he
wanted 3000 rupees to return my phone, that’s about $47 US. Tony agreed, so we deposited 2000 rupees in the
man’s bank account; he would get the other 1000 rupees after we received the
phone. The following day, the man took a
train to our city and met our language nurturer at the train station, and we
got my phone back with a new phone charger.
