Thief....or just lost my phone... Dang it

[Cajungaltx]

Was using my phone for a recipe for Chicken & Dumplings....Brad has been sick as a dog for 3 days....thought the broth/etc would be good for him.

I hired a mechanic off CL to come do some work on the car... he replaced the struts for me....seemed like a pretty nice guy...

When he came in for his $90 payment - I 'thought' my phone was on the counter.... I had to run to the bedroom to see if Brad had ten dollars in his wallet....he didn't, so I said I'd run to the ATM....came back out - he said he'd take the $84 that I had and call it even...and left.

About 5 minutes later...I was looking for my phone and couldn't find it... searched high and low....still can't find it almost 5 hours later...

I'm HORRID at misplacing stuff....to make matters worse...I took the giant Otterbox case off the phone....so it's just the bare phone...

I called the mechanic...got voicemail....sent a text message from Brads phone saying: Did you accidentally pick my phone up off the counter? I can't find it, and thought you might have thought it was yours... (I don't know if he had an iphone...but instead of accusing the guy of stealing my phone...I thought I'd try that instead...)

I haven't had a response to the calls OR the text msg....which leads me to believe that I didn't 'misplace' the phone...

I'm so annoyed....and frustrated.... and darn it... my entire life is on that stupid phone. My husband has a drs appt at 7:15 am...that I have NO clue where it is cause it was in my stupid phone... grrrrr...

[Crashoran]

was it an iphone?

[Mosephus]

That stinks, did you have the locate my iphone thing activated?

This reminds me of a friends episode where they lost a engagement ring, blamed a hooker/stripper and the duck ended up eating it.

You don't have a duck do you?

[janikphoto]

I'd hate to think that someone would purposely steal it from your home like that.

[SCone]

does it ring? check your online account for usage & numbers being called...

[janikphoto]

Originally Posted by SCone

does it ring? check your online account for usage & numbers being called...

If it was stolen, they probably pulled the sim card out and put in a new one to use it on their account.

[ldelacruz]

Your prolly right! Go with your gut.

[Atfulldraw]

search Craigslist for his phone number....

if he now has an iPhone for sale, you might have found it!

[andyz]

I have the "Find my iPhone" app on my phone and iPad. It isn't a sure way to recover a device, but it is a chance.

[Abel]

Bummer about your phone! ugh..

Originally Posted by Mosephus

That stinks, did you have the locate my iphone thing activated?

I will definitely be doing this tonight.

[rab3rd]

Did you find your phone?

[Cajungaltx]

Yes - it's an iphone - just the 3g...

Actually att has a really cool thing called family maps...you sign up for the service and you can 'track' your phones as long as they are 'on' and are in ATT coverage area.... unfortunately mine isn't either....but I haven't had any activity since about 7:18 last night...it's showing a text msg recieved from my husbands phone....which was AFTER I couldn't find it....I was trying to call/text to find it...without luck unfortunately.

If the guy had called me back - I would probably be less likely to think he had picked it up... but still haven't heard back from him at all....go figure... ;-( I typed in his phone number in CL last night to see if there were any ads for selling an iphone...lol....came up with three posts from earlier this month where people were saying he was scamming them by taking money and not doing the work....and that he was stealing things out of their cars...

*sigh*

[rab3rd]

Sorry to hear that Donna. People just suck sometimes...

[Crashoran]

Originally Posted by Cajungaltx

Yes - it's an iphone - just the 3g...

Actually att has a really cool thing called family maps...you sign up for the service and you can 'track' your phones as long as they are 'on' and are in ATT coverage area.... unfortunately mine isn't either....but I haven't had any activity since about 7:18 last night...it's showing a text msg recieved from my husbands phone....which was AFTER I couldn't find it....I was trying to call/text to find it...without luck unfortunately.

If the guy had called me back - I would probably be less likely to think he had picked it up... but still haven't heard back from him at all....go figure... ;-( I typed in his phone number in CL last night to see if there were any ads for selling an iphone...lol....came up with three posts from earlier this month where people were saying he was scamming them by taking money and not doing the work....and that he was stealing things out of their cars...

*sigh*

Did you file a police report?

[Cajungaltx]

Originally Posted by Crashoran

Did you file a police report?

No.... is it really worth filing a police report?

I'm not 100% positive he took it... I just know that despite me looking for several hours last night....it's not to be found... Usually my phone is the one thing I do NOT lose....because I'm constantly using it to read books on...or other stuff... it's my right hand...