Restoring my faith in Australian samaritans

[tl;dr] Aussie bloke found my lost phone and returned it. #onlyinaustralia #faithintheworldrestored [/tl;dr]

So (lately, I've been noticing how most anecdotes start with 'so'), the other day I was at Coogee for brunch and I'd brought my handphone along in my relatively shallow pockets. After about an hour of walking, I realised my phone wasn't in my pockets anymore.

The person I was with checked his phone and saw a call placed by 'me' 20 minutes ago. We tried calling my phone but there was just no response. We tried retracing our steps. We tried checking the cafe. We tried calling again. We tried calling at least 10 times.

But to no avail.

Still, I was in a rosy-minded fuzz and just couldn't rouse myself into a state of anxiety. Somewhere inside me, I felt sure that someone had picked it up and returned it, and had tried calling the numbers on my phone to get it back to me. I thought it didn't matter that he (or she) wasn't picking up anymore, because maybe it was on silent and he was in the car or something and didn't realise. By contrast, my friend was concerned that it could have been a pocket dial and my phone was in the hands of a malevolent miscreant (I just couldn't resist the alliteration) who had no intention of ever returning my phone.

Anyway, my friend asked me if I had any sensitive information on my phone and advocated that I should see what I could do about calling my service provider and blocking the phone from use. I took his advice. The service provider required additional details about my phone that I couldn't remember offhand. So I headed back home to check them up, and, would you believe it - found my phone at home!

It turned out that the bloke had called up another of my friends on the list of recently called contacts on my phone, so that friend drove over to pick up the phone for me and dropped it off at my place. Apparently the good samaritan had said 'losing your phone can be the most distressing thing' and wanted to get it to me as soon as he could. So here's a shoutout to the awesome samaritan and to my friend who picked up my phone for me.