So, I am sitting in Starbucks this morning, in Chapters... and it's pretty empty yet... being just shortly after 9 am... And this lady comes by and I can hear her talking to an older gentleman off by the comfy chairs in the other corner. At first I think they know each other, but then he stands up and I get that the woman doesn't know him, but is desperately searching for her cell phone in the chair cushions. She had left it here yesterday and nobody turned it in at the counter and she is hoping beyond hope is has slid down the side of the cushions. But no such luck.
The man asks if she's tried calling it... she has, but nothing. Has anyone tried phoning her on it? No. It is locked, so no one could use it... She is feeling sick and disconsolate. And then out of the corner of my eye, I see a Chapters woman approaching her with her hands behind her back... She asks her if she's the woman who lost her cell phone... and when the woman says "yes"... the lady sweeps her hands out from behind her back, cradling a bright red cell phone! The relief on the woman's face is immediate and palpable. The cell phone was in the Chapters office... Someone had turned it in!!!
The Chapters lady knows the feeling because she once left her phone in an outhouse in a park!! But then it turned out someone turned it in to the RCMP in a neighbouring community and all was well...
I know someone who left her cell phone on a park bench here in Calgary and then was able to phone the cell phone and pick it up from the kind gentleman who had found it...
There are good samaritans out there!! We are them...
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