A People Post

I don’t do many of these posts on my blog, but in light of recent events in my life, I think I’ll do one. Maybe one will turn into a couple; who knows. I’m going to be talking about people. If you find people boring, then you might want to move on to a different blog post or a different blog. Either way, happy reading and surfing, folks!

First off, let’s start off with a little story on how I lost my phone! I went to buy some Grizzly and visit the neighborhood CVS store. I usually carry my phone in a little holster and attach it to my belt. I’ve never had it fall out during a bike ride before. You guessed it. Yesterday, it did fall off my holster. This occurred at approximately 1400 and I didn’t notice that it was missing until around 2300 ( a long time, I know). I searched frantically in the house and even went out with my housemate armed with flashlights to search bike paths in the dark. No joy. Came up empty-handed. I thought that maybe it had fallen off my belt in either CVS or the gas station I had purchased my dip. Let’s hit the fast-forward button to this morning.

I tried calling my phone from my computer and left tons of messages on it, hoping that a passerby may have come across the phone and was holding onto it. Again, nothing. Until 1100 this morning when I reached my phone. It was at PANDA EXPRESS, which was in the same plaza as CVS. I must have dropped it in the grass. I biked over to Panda Express and picked up my phone, no problem. Here comes the people part of the post.

I’m thankful for the person who found my phone and decided to hand it over to someone who could hold on to it for me. Sure, there are people out there who would keep the phone, take out the SIM card and just claim it as their own. After all it’s “finders keepers”, right? Others would use the phone, make some outrageous phone calls and rack up a bill until the SIM card was deactivated. I lucked out. I found out from the Panda Express employee that my phone was picked up by a kind old lady. I didn’t get a name, but I’m extremely grateful because that phone is my life blood. It had important business, work, and school information on it. If I had lost it, I would have been lost in the world. No joke. So this is a very very grateful THANK YOU to the lady who picked up my phone and decided to return it. I hope that in the future, those of you who read this post will do the same. Find a lost phone, wallet, or personal item that could be returned to it’s rightful owner? Please do the right thing. That’s all. Once again. THANKS A BUNCH.