The cell phone

I took my husband to the airport today.

Allegiant Air flies from Sanford, FL to Lansing, MI - straight shot. It's great. However, it takes a few hours to drive down to Sanford.

In order to make it worth my while, I get a Caffeine Free Diet Coke for the drive. Oooh, I'm dangerous.

This means having to stop several times at rest areas.

One of my rest area stops handed me quite a dilemma.

I found a cell phone in the bathroom.
In a stall.
I chose a different stall.
Before I closed the door to the stall I chose,
I went back to the stall with the phone and grabbed the phone.

While I was washing my hands, the phone buzzed...Two new email messages.

Oh boy
What to do?

Do I leave it? Put it back in the stall? Pretend I didn't see it? Wait for someone else to do something? Take it with me? (Is that stealing?) oh goodness. I was at a total loss.

I looked for a lost and found, there wasn't one - and honestly, I wasn't going to leave it there.

So I did the only thing I could do - I played with the phone to find the address book. I hated doing it though. I felt like a snoop. Like I was totally violating this persons space. But then again, how else was I going to get this back to the right person? I looked for the contact, "me" or "me at home" "husband" or the fabulous - "Mom" or "Dad"

I found "me" so I dialed that and got her voice mail. Click. Not listening to her voice mail!!
La la la not listening!

I clicked through more contacts and found "Mom and Dad" together! Cool.

I called - I think Dad answered... "Hello! I found this phone in a rest area and am assuming it's your daughters. Would you happen to know if she is traveling today on I-95?"

Yes she is, thank you so much, she's with her husband in the car and they are traveling to N. Carolina. His name is Jaime, I bet he's in the contact list, you can call him.

I gave him my phone number, just in case, said Thank You and hung up.

I was giggling. This is just so weird to be calling random people!

So I called the Jaime contact and got this weird message and I hung up. (Chicken)

A few minutes later, the new cell phone rang, it was Jaime's phone.

A very very confused girl said hello and I said "Is this the owner of this phone number?" she said yes and I explained how I got Jaime's number. I asked what mile marker they were passing and determined that they had another rest area just a few miles ahead of them, where they could stop and I could meet them and return their phone.

I was just about 10 miles behind them.

They called - they were at the rest area.

I arrived and met the cutest couple. They had a baby about 7 months old. Cute cute cute. They were very grateful and so was I.

I don't think I could handle the responsibility of having someone elses phone for longer than the 25 minutes that I did have it.

I'm just so happy that the issue was resolved so quickly and it was a nice outcome.

I realized today on my way home, after the "drop" that this really wasn't a random act. It was a specific act of kindness. I specifically wanted to help the person that lost the phone - but I'll file it under random anyway.

Have a great day!

Kristin