When a stranger calls you from your husband's phone...

[Croney]

You first think he's been in an accident. Nope, it's just Home Depot letting you know they found his phone on a pile of garden hoses.

The best thing is when he walks in the door and plunks down the timer he bought, and you tell him the news, and he starts patting all his pockets. 🤪

What I don't understand is how they made the call if the phone was locked.

[ret5hd]

1. Funny (?) thing to do to someone:

When they leave your house, wait about 5 minutes and text them that they forgot their phone at your house.

Hillarity ensues.

[Croney]

3. HA!

[LNM]

18. Ha! April 1st is coming!

I may have to try this out.

[marble falls]

2. How did they do it? Ducktape.

[leftieNanner]

5. Or

WD40

[marble falls]

15. The only two things a man needs in his toolbox besides one screwdriver and a large hammer.

[leftieNanner]

16. Or a woman.

[marble falls]

17. Don't pick up our bad habits!

[dawg day]

4. I found a phone in the park last month.

It was locked, but I could answer for some reason. And the owner's dad called! I said, "Tell her she can pick up the phone here." He was pretty surprised that someone else answered his daughter's phone. So he emailed her. She arrived and said she had just been at the phone store and spent $600 on a new phone, but now she could take it back.

Glad your hubster got his back. I can just imagine myself doing that-- thoughtlessly putting it down when I was comparing hoses...

[Croney]

6. Now I'm trying to figure out if my own phone could be used if I lose it.

[dawg day]

8. This was an iphone, and I could see the front page notifications

So I could see the messages because she had them set that way.
And I could answer the phone.

But I couldn't dial it or even find out the phone number. I could tell it was ATT service, and I was going to call the local store and see if they could track it down by the serial number on the back. Then Dad called, fortunately.

She should have installed "Find My Phone," which would have at least gotten her to my neighborhood, I guess. But now I know-- best thing to do is call it, as long as it's powered up and on.

[LakeArenal]

7. Lucky. 🍀

[NJCher]

9. Land of the Lost Phone--I used to live there

funny story, Croney.

Before I bought one of those phone cases you can string around your neck like a long necklace, I lost phones a lot and ALWAYS got them back. One time on a trip I lost the same phone four times and each time it was returned. Especially amazing was when I dropped it on the road getting out of the car to go to the check-in line.

In NJ, people return phones a lot. Surprises me, since we have such an image from the Sopranos.

Haven't lost one yet since I bought the neck case.

[Croney]

10. Good solution!

[frazzled]

11. We found a phone in the gutter once

outside our building. I can't remember how we did it (maybe phones weren't so locked before ... it was perhaps 8 or 9 years ago). But we were somehow able to see some autodial contacts, and we just called a number and asked if they knew the person whose name/number it was. Oh yes, they said ... that's Lena, I work with her at the post office.

Lena is our USPS mail deliverer! She was eternally grateful.

I did get the call from the stranger once: it was the police in a far-off suburb. They called to tell me my husband had been in a bicycle accident and they'd found him half-conscious on the side of the road and taken him to a hospital a good 30 miles away. When I got there (long story, because he'd taken the bike in our car and left it parked somewhere while he was doing a 60-mile ride, by himself), they informed me he'd broken 4 ribs, punctured a lung, and broken his shoulder in two places. Then they told me to take him home. (!#) I don't ever want to get a call like that again.

[Croney]

12. Oh no! Good thing they reached you. That did cross my mind.

[Hela]

13. Emergency call

When you press the home button on a locked iPhone, the number pad comes up and there's an "Emergency" button in the lower left that will let you dial out. If you have Medical ID or emergency numbers set up, you can access those even when the phone is locked.

[Croney]

14. Thanks!