more phone karma

[syntonic_comma]

Once again I've found a cellphone on my bike commute. On a less busy road than last time, but actually in the road this time. And after dark, since I was on my way home. Anything left in the road gets run over before long, so I picked it up and brought it home. The battery was low and we made the mistake of turning it off until I had time to take a

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[aome]

I don't even know HOW to create a txt file on my phone. But I do have the ICE thing going, so I would like to hope someone could use that to locate me (Will, at any rate) if I lost my phone.

[syntonic_comma]

To create a text file, you can remove the flash card and connect it to your computer with a card reader. If the phone is locked, people can't search the directory for ICE or family/friends who'd know the phone's owner.

If I were a typical cellphone user, I might have known better than to turn it off. I would have expected that a low battery would still last several hours in a modern phone. I would have looked through the directory before letting the phone lock itself. But I'm not a typical user, and my cell phone is not a a recent model. I don't particularly want to be reachable 24/7; I carry a phone because work requires (and provides) it. I don't know how to do anything with my phone beyond making and answering calls and retrieving messages. But I do know how to snoop through a flash card.

My phone doesn't have a flash card. But it's not locked, either.

happy ending

[syntonic_comma]

The mother of the cellphone came by sometime this afternoon and picked up the phone. Apprantly she lives even closer to us than where I found the phone. anniemal said she tried to give us a $40 thank-you, but Annie declined it. It's not like I went out of my way for it or spent a lot of time on it. Returning things to their owners, when you can, is just the right thing to do.