Last week, Second Son left his cell phone on the train. (Or least, that what he thought he did.) He checked with the Lost and Found a couple of days later, and of course it hadn't been turned in. I didn't call the cell phone carrier to have the service turned off because I cultivated a vague hope that he had really left it in his friend's car or some other nearby spot.
Yesterday, his friend Kelly called his number, and somebody answered and immediately hung up. So we knew the phone was still alive -- and had fallen into the hands of someone who was enjoying the free service!
Second Son sent a text message to the phone: "Mail my phone back to me, and I'll send you $20.00."
A few minutes later, he got a reply: "Where?"
Several text messages and phone calls later, he extracted an agreement from the perpetrator to get it sent back.
So place your bets: will it really come back? And if so, when? And if it does, should we supplement the promised $20 with the postage the perp will have to pay?
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7 comments:
I'll bet you get the phone back, and yes I would give them the $20 plus postage.
Onanite
my devious plan was to ask the idiot for her name and address, as if you were going to write her a check.... then report her to some sort of cell phone authority and harass her that way. but that would only make sense if she had done something ridiculous like make 50 international calls and it affected your bill. shame. oh, blackmail could have been fun too.
I wish I could pay $20 to get #1 daughter's cell phone back. She said it was lost in the vast depths of her bedroom - but in spite of a "cleaning" it is not to be found. Perhaps the elves took it.
Hi ccpdppr,
Third son lost a phone when he was staying at a friend's house. That phone was never seen again again, even though they ended up remodeling the basement where he had been sleeping.
What do you think elves talk about on cell phones?
Marian.
Hi onanite,
It's Tuesday and no phone yet. How much longer?
Marian
HI Kelly,
If you blackmail by e-mail, is that bleakmail?
Marian
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