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A good story of lost cell phone in a taxi

I just lost my cell phone here in Armenia. I was in the taxi with three of my students (not, DON´T go there!) and somehow my phone must have slipped out of my pocket. 95% of the time, one assumes it´s gone for good.

What is it with those seats? You incline back, and if you have ¨short¨ pockets, things can easily fall out, especially change.

Amazingly, we called the taxi company (one of my students remembered the number of the taxi), and, wooolah, 15 minutes later, I got my phone back.

I treated the driver to a combo #2 at Frisby for his honesty. It was a pretty cheap NOKIA, but the most important thing was all the numbers.

By caulfield2 on May 9, 2006, 15:30 in Friendly Talkzone.

Colombiche says on May 9, 2006, 15:38:

Let me share Honest Colombian story too!! On my way to Colombia, I stopped over at Newark airport. One of the family friends that I was travelling with lost his wallet. He left it at the counter of one of the restaurants in the foodcourt. His wallet was packed with verdes.

He started running around the airport, freaking out like a chicken without a head. After a couple of minutes, he was approached by a lady from Bogota who asked him "are you okay?, did you lose something?". He said "My wallet".

She said, my husband has it, right now he is handing it to one of the security guards. My friend ran up to the husband who WAS giving it to one of the security guards and claimed it. Everything was intact.

Thank God, he was two seconds away from having a annurism.

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

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robi666 says on May 9, 2006, 16:10:

I lost my phone on a taxi. I called my phone just ten minutes after. The Taxi driver answered and said that he was going to get it back to me. Of course first thing he did it was asking for a propina. Of course I said yes. Never saw him again, altough I have been hunting him.
Oh... it happened in Cartagena... Taxi driver in Cartagena... you know how they are.

"I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth. A nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present."

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