In the annals of absent mindedness of FrugalTexan, this one takes the cake.
So this afternoon I go out to the park near the local children's zoo to go walking with some people from my church. There's two people going biking, and then myself and one other church lady going walking.
I get Runkeeper started on my phone to track mileage/time. We have prayer, and then get started.
As we are heading towards the beginning of the trail church lady (CL) notices a couple playing with two teeny tiny puppies. She wants to go check them out. So we do.
We talk with the couple for a few minutes. They let us hold the puppies (two month old Chihuahuas) and then we head on out.
Now the problem started here. In order to hold the puppy, I put my water bottle and phone on the ground.
Twenty minutes later I realized that I had my water bottle, but did NOT have my phone.
We headed quickly back to where we'd seen the puppies.
No phone.
We go over to where we had gathered as a total group.
No phone.
We go to the ticket window for the Zoo to see if someone had turned in a phone.
No phone. (Did leave contact info.)
At this point CL let me use her phone to log in to iCloud and see if I could locate my phone.
My iPad and my old iPhone showed up - located at my house. My new phone showed up - as not online.
CL tried calling my phone. It went straight to voicemail.
So whoever found my phone, turned it off.
When I got home I set iCloud to remote erase my phone the next time it is connected to the Internet. (If someone found my phone with the intention of returning it - they would have turned it in to the zoo office. That is the only logical thing. Hence, I figure they don't have the intention of returning it.)
I then called Ting to get my old iPhone set up and activated with my number. Sat on hold for 45+ minutes before being hung up on. (Used Google Hangouts on old phone.) It was the end of business hours.
I looked to see what I could do online. I suspended my account (so it's basically unusable except on WiFi.) Then I tried to set up my old phone. Except I need a new SIM card -- for $9 --- which won't ship til Monday.
I planned on going to Dollar Tree tomorrow. I *think* I have an okay idea of how to find it without GPS.
However ... Monday and Tuesday nights I have after school events at a place I've been ONCE. I was counting heavily on having my GPS to make sure I got there, and home.
I'm going to see if NE will let me borrow his GPS unit for these trips - although he uses it in his delivering sometimes ... Hopefully we can figure something out.
This also makes going to the gym not as good ... I have to be able to use celluar data to be able to have Pact check me in for my workout.
I am just SO frustrated!!
The only good thing about all this is that I do still have my old iPhone from ATT & I can use it on Ting now. If I didn't have that, I'd have to buy a new phone.
(The other phone I had, an Android, which I used on Ting, and let NE borrow to use on Ting ... I think I threw it away because I knew I was never going to use it, and NE didn't want it ... and the operating system was really outdated ... yeah, in hindsight, that wasn't smart. If I had that still, then I could easily and quickly get back into business .. at least as long as it took to get a new SIM card.)
The two Android phones I got a few weeks ago also wouldn't work because they are Net 10 phones - can only be activated with Net 10 network. (whatever that is) (I only use them for paid video streaming over WiFi)
So Upset with Myself
August 9th, 2015 at 02:39 am
August 9th, 2015 at 05:34 am 1439098470
August 9th, 2015 at 11:46 am 1439120811
August 9th, 2015 at 02:03 pm 1439128996
SF - If I can't use his GPS unit, that is what I'll have to do.
August 9th, 2015 at 05:49 pm 1439142543
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August 10th, 2015 at 03:50 am 1439178607
August 10th, 2015 at 04:11 am 1439179892
Hopefully the SIM card will get here quickly!