Lost Phone. Considering myself lucky.
When we got home after lunch, my sister called Dan to say that my bag was lost. Huh? How’d she know when I didn’t?!
She said someone (Indian sounding) called the last dialled number on my phone, said he found my bag and would leave it at the customer service counter of The Cathay because he was rushing for a movie.
As we drove back to The Cathay, I was thanking God that a kind soul had returned the bag. I made a mental checklist of the things I would otherwise have to replace – my driving licence, I/C, credit/atm cards, S90cam(and irreplaceable memories!), iPhone, and RMK makeup…. We thought it must be the the (Indian)guy driving a Lexus who was waiting to park in the lot we were in. Besides, my bag was in Renee’s pram and it could only have fallen out without us knowing in the carpark.
When we got to The Cathay, I sat waiting in the car with Renee by the side of the street while Dan ran in to do a quick pickup. After 15mins(felt like alot longer!), he ran back with empty hands and a grim face. He has checked with the box office, with the customer service, with Cathay organisation, with everybody he could possibly check with and NOBODY HAS SEEN MY BAG!!
We drove into the carpark and saw the same Lexus in the lot and left him a note to call us back.
Then we walked around The Cathay while making calls to cancel my cards. We even got the name of the lady at the Customer Service counter just so we have a name for whatever reason.
Anyhow, hanging around The Cathay waiting for the Lexus driver to return to his car didn’t seem like a good solution. What if he decided to dine as well? Plus we had Renee with us… So we decided to leave.
On our way out, Dan’s phone rang. The lady at the reception said SOMEONE RETURNED THE BAG! HURRAH!!
She said someone found it in the male toilet and brought it there. Everything was in there except for the cash in my wallet and my iPhone.
It’s all a little strange. The story doesn’t seem to add up. Did the guy change his mind about returning everything in the bag? Did he turn it in at the customer service counter and someone there wanted to keep it? Should we pursue it given that I’ve got most of my valuables back? (I/C and driving licence would be the most troublesome to replace). I mean, if the ‘broken link’ of the story is at the customer service counter, pursuing it will cost her job. But isn’t the customer service counter akin to a police post? A place you put things at for safekeeping?
I think playing detective isn’t gonna help me find my iPhone although I’ll admit to being awfully curious. We’re not even sure which guy picked up the bag to begin with and the Lexus driver may not return the call.
Thing to do now, is to replace the iPhone, fret over lost GODFINGER time, and berate myself for not having backed up my stuff.
There. The long story.
**Update 1(9:11pm, 21 Jul)
Life is interwoven most intricately. Turns out, it IS The Lexus guy who picked up my bag!! He called Dan to confirm that he handed the bag in its entirety to the lady at the reception. So the time line is this:
220pm: Guy hands my bag to CSO
320pm: Dan goes to the counter and the CSO tells him nobody handed anything over to the counter and she is the only person on duty.
330pm: We go back to the CSO to get her name
410pm: CSO calls to say someone returned the bag
I think she didn’t expect at all that we would be able to contact the person who handed her the bag. The Cathay will be looking at the CCTV tapes tomorrow. It is looking awfully like the CSO who took the bag from the kind stranger who returned it, took my phone and cash. It is also looking awfully like there will be a job opening at The Cathay soon. Will find out tomorrow.
*fingers crossed that she didn’t reset my iPhone to factory settings. Dan will be most upset that his Angry Birds scores are deleted Renee’s audio/video/picture files are gone.
**Update 2(3:03pm, 22 Jul)
The plot thickens. Cathay says they searched the CSO and didn’t find a phone. She still maintains that she didn’t take it. They urge us to make a police report because they cannot release footage of the CCTV to us plus they’re still investigating the case. Hm… I’m loathed to make a police report cos that could potentially ruin her life. It seems too big a consequence over an iPhone. We think we’ll call her with the information we have (she doesn’t know that we have made contact with the guy who handed the bag to her) to let her know that we know. And that we want the phone back. Right thing? Wrong thing? She’s out of the office now. We’ll try her number again later.
