Yesterday, I lost my iPhone and, therefore, my impression of humanity. You see, I’m a sunshine and happy days type. I nearly always have a smile on my face and I’m always finding the silver lining. There’s good in everyone. And we all live in a safe place.
So, today, when I got to the gym and realized that I accidentally left my phone on the hood of my car and it (shocker!) wasn’t there or in any bags or anywhere in the car, I turned around and drove home–retracing my drive. And while I didn’t find it on the drive home, I didn’t really expect it. I fully expected to find the phone still in my driveway or along my street where it fell off, or in my mailbox.
Afterall, I live in a nice neighborhood. And I had a label with my twitter handle (@JulieMPron) on my phone. So, of course someone would leave it there.
Except, I pulled into my driveway, walked up and down the street around my home and checked my mailbox, and it wasn’t there. Next I checked my tweets to make sure a finder hadn’t tweeted me, called my phone 3 times and searched through our pool bag, my purse and my son’s backpack.
Nothing.
I drove around the block. I drove back to the gym. And back home. I called again, to find no answer, at which point I suspended my phone.
My poor, patient kids had been sitting in the car for over 30 minutes at this point, so we went back to the gym for a swim, returned home again, checked my messages, checked in with my husband (who said he’d been calling all day) checked my tweets, unsuspended the phone, called my phone and… nothing.
Nothing. Every hour we checked the mailbox in case someone wanted to anonymously return the phone. We contacted the community center. Whitney suggested we look under the hood. We did. We went on a walk through the neighborhood, twice. My husband redrove the route tonight.
No phone.
No answer.
There are mean people in the world, and they visit our neighborhoods. They might even live in them.
Mean.
Heartless.
Selfish.
People.
I hate that I have to know that and admit that. Even more, I hate every time my kids have to learn it.
Mean, mean people.
Note: Everyone is asking me what I’m going to do for a replacement. I’m not sure… I could buy a really inexpensive phone. I could upgrade and pay oodles. I could get a new 2 year contract. What would you do? Or… do you have an extra ATT phone I could borrow? Please? (begging…)
© 2012, Julie Meyers Pron. All rights reserved.
Julie, why don’t you use the “find iphone” app and search for it using GPS? This app has saved me several times.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
sigh. it doesn’t work.
Twitter: WhitneyMWS
says:
I still keep hoping that maybe it’s tucked in a bush or something. And I’m like you, always wanting to think ppl are good. I truly think it’s somewhere and no one picked it up…. OR, someone who has NO clue what Twitter is picked it up and doesn’t know what to make of the @JulieMPron on the back of it.
Did anyone do that “this is my friend’s phone, she lives at ____” yet for you? I will do today if you want!
Totally sucks. I really can’t even imagine where you lost it…
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
yeah, texted called texted called. It’s shut off again. It’s gone.
That sucks.
Maybe it will appear today?
Not quite the same, but Kiel dropped my phone in the bathtub in early June. (FYI – phones don’t float.) I’m not due for an early upgrade until next week. It has been a long two months without a smart phone. I’m pretty much counting down the hours now until I can go and get one next Monday. If someone doesn’t have one you can use try ebay. I know there are other places you can buy used phones as well. I had no idea how addicted I was to my phone until I didn’t have it.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
thanks Kristine. It’s too late to try, but I’m guessing the put your phone in a dish of rice fix didn’t work for you?
Julie – did you set up Find My iPhone on your phone? It should have been preloaded software, and it’s worth checking out to see if you had it on. You can call or email me if you need assistance. <3 ~ Megs
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
thanks Megs. Sadly, Find My iPhone only works on phones that aren’t caught up in a mess of iTunes issues. I was never able to fully back up my iPhone and my iTunes account having been hacked made it so that I had to end the old Apple account and start another. But. Due to some sort of crazy logistics on Apple/iTunes part, my iphone was never updated to the new account. It’s a ridiculous mess and I don’t even know how to start to explain it.
Twitter: hchybinski
says:
so sad – I would be lost if I lost mine. And I know what you mean about learning about bad people in the world. . .it breaks my heart everytime.
Hillary
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
right? and so much harder when your kids have to see it.
I left my in a cab in NYC this past spring – I feel your pain!
Twitter: http://twitter.com/justprecious
says:
worst thing ever, right? Were you able to wipe it clean? I can’t, which just makes it even worse.