Two items I lost were found.
Missing Phone
First my phone. I left a meeting.
Went to the toilet.
Walked along the shops. Stopped. Thought of taking a photo. No phone.
I hunted everywhere. All pockets. Bag. No luck.
Retracing Steps
Before going back to the office to ask, I thought, I should retrace my steps to the toilets and check every cubicle.
I walked back towards the toilets. I passed the lake with swans. As on my previous journey, I paused to admire the swans. I looked down and saw something black on the ground - my phone!
Undamaged.
It must have fallen out of my pocket after I put it away.
I needed to sew on the loose fixing which had come off one side of a jacket pocket.
Two lessons:
1 Check your phone every step of your journey. Look behind every time you leave a place.
2 Retrace your steps.
3 Worst case scenario, know your phone identity details.
4 Keep looking. Even if you think it is hopeless, keep looking.
5 At home or the office, do not put a phone down anywhere it could get left, or fall off, such as the back of a table, the edge of a table, under a newspaper or piece of paper or jacket which you move.
https://www.safewise.com/blog/tips-for-recovering-lost-or-stolen-items/
About the author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer. Never lost anything - but tells lies. Oops. Let me change that. Has lost lots of things, but usually finds them eventually.
Please share links to your favourite, serious and funny posts.
Missing Phone
First my phone. I left a meeting.
Went to the toilet.
Walked along the shops. Stopped. Thought of taking a photo. No phone.
I hunted everywhere. All pockets. Bag. No luck.
Retracing Steps
Before going back to the office to ask, I thought, I should retrace my steps to the toilets and check every cubicle.
I walked back towards the toilets. I passed the lake with swans. As on my previous journey, I paused to admire the swans. I looked down and saw something black on the ground - my phone!
Undamaged.
It must have fallen out of my pocket after I put it away.
I needed to sew on the loose fixing which had come off one side of a jacket pocket.
Two lessons:
1 Check your phone every step of your journey. Look behind every time you leave a place.
2 Retrace your steps.
3 Worst case scenario, know your phone identity details.
4 Keep looking. Even if you think it is hopeless, keep looking.
5 At home or the office, do not put a phone down anywhere it could get left, or fall off, such as the back of a table, the edge of a table, under a newspaper or piece of paper or jacket which you move.
https://www.safewise.com/blog/tips-for-recovering-lost-or-stolen-items/
About the author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer. Never lost anything - but tells lies. Oops. Let me change that. Has lost lots of things, but usually finds them eventually.
Please share links to your favourite, serious and funny posts.
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