TigerTag blog
9th
What would you do if you found a phone?
A few weeks ago I was at sitting at a bar with a friend when he found an iPhone. He went outside to smoke a cigarette (yes, I know - he said he’ll quit) when he saw this iPhone 3GS lying on the floor. He brought it back to the bar and we examined it to see if there was any sort of tag or clue about the owner. Nope.
We looked around and asked the few people on a couple of tables whether the phone was theirs. Nope.
What to do? “Let’s call the last person the owner called”, I suggested. My friend started navigating on this person’s phone and we felt a little dirty, afraid to find any secrets we should not see about this stranger
He called the last name in the call log. To our luck it was the owner’s wife but let me paraphrase the awkward conversation that followed:
Friend: “Hello”
Woman: “Hello”
Friend: “I just found this phone and I wonder if you’d know who it belongs to”
Woman: “Well…depends. If you’re law enforcement then I don’t”
He explained what happened and she told him she’d try to contact her husband. We had a good laugh and ordered another beer. Thirty minutes later some guy walks into the bar looking around and we waved to him. The owner was back. It happened he was from another state attending some conference and was at the bar a few minutes before we arrived. Didn’t seem to us he would pass a breathalyzer test - which explains why the phone was left behind - but he wasn’t driving anyway. Phone in hands he thanked us and left.
We felt good for being Good Samaritans and for reuniting the phone to its owner. Had the battery died before we found it the phone would probably be sitting at the bar’s office until today.
