....so, I stopped by the grocery store on the way home from work today to pick up a few items (nothing critical but, it was along the way so I figured it was easy enough to run in, grab the stuff, and still be home earlier than usual). And, as per my usual routine, upon entering the store and grabbing a cart I brought up my grocery list in OneNote and began zipping through the aisles... Once everything I needed (and a few things I didn't need) was in the cart I headed for the checkout, pocketing the phone in the process as it was no longer needed. Paid the bill and headed for the lot. Tossed the bags in the back seat, jumped in and took off for home. And... as I'm pulling out of the lot I happen to look over at the center console where there is a DVP sized indentation which my phone ALWAYS sits in whenever I'm in the truck. I find myself wondering why my phone is not in it's usual spot. So, I pull over and look to see if it's still in my pocket... nope. Did it fall onto the passenger seat? Nope. On the floor somewhere? Nope... Now I'm getting nervous. Jump out and check the bags in the back seat (and all around the back seat area). Still nothing... Panic mode begins to settle in... Burn rubber back into the lot and run into the store asking any and every employee I can find if they have seen a cell phone anywhere or if anyone has turned one in... nothing. Okay so I would like to take this moment to express my sincere appreciation to the entire staff of the Jewel Foods grocery store in LaGrange Park, IL. Every employee who heard what was happening went way above and beyond to try and help me out. The manager walked me through my route through the store, employees searched the shelves in every section I had been through, they closed that register aisle for a few minutes to thoroughly check all around that area. The cart retrieval people went out into the lot and looked from the door to where I was parked and checked under every car along the way. One nice lady came with me to the truck to help me search through the grocery bags one more time. But, in the end, we found nothing so... they took my name and number and promised to call if anything turned up and, I went home to fire up the computer and give the locate phone feature in Windows Live a try for the first time.
Brought my groceries into the house while waiting for the pc to get started up. Checked the bags yet again... still nothing. Fired up IE and brought up the locate page, clicked for it to map the phone's location...
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...and was stunned to see that it was showing my phone as being at the same location as me. Hit the button to ring the phone for a minute and ran outside to the truck. Opened the doors and, there it was, a faint ringing coming from deep under the back seat, behind the jack, behind some bundles of straps and bungee cords that have been there for months. I have no idea how the darned thing managed to bury itself that deeply that quickly but, it did. And, thanks to the nifty locate and remote ring features that MS built into this O/S, I was able to find my beloved DVP and stop stressing over how much of a pain it was going to be to replace it.
My first call was to the grocery store to tell them that I had found the phone, that I was just an idiot who lost his phone in his own vehicle, but that I was very appreciative of all of their efforts on my behalf.
Oh, and before anyone asks why I didn't just have someone call the phone while we were searching for it at the store. I will note that when I'm at work I have the ringer turned off and I generally forget to turn it back on when I leave the office so, calling it would have done me no good at all (the "find my phone" page gives you the ability to ring the phone for a full minute even if the phone was set to silent).
Well, that's my little WP7 adventure for this week and, I sincerely hope to never go through this again.
Brought my groceries into the house while waiting for the pc to get started up. Checked the bags yet again... still nothing. Fired up IE and brought up the locate page, clicked for it to map the phone's location...
...
...
...and was stunned to see that it was showing my phone as being at the same location as me. Hit the button to ring the phone for a minute and ran outside to the truck. Opened the doors and, there it was, a faint ringing coming from deep under the back seat, behind the jack, behind some bundles of straps and bungee cords that have been there for months. I have no idea how the darned thing managed to bury itself that deeply that quickly but, it did. And, thanks to the nifty locate and remote ring features that MS built into this O/S, I was able to find my beloved DVP and stop stressing over how much of a pain it was going to be to replace it.
My first call was to the grocery store to tell them that I had found the phone, that I was just an idiot who lost his phone in his own vehicle, but that I was very appreciative of all of their efforts on my behalf.
Oh, and before anyone asks why I didn't just have someone call the phone while we were searching for it at the store. I will note that when I'm at work I have the ringer turned off and I generally forget to turn it back on when I leave the office so, calling it would have done me no good at all (the "find my phone" page gives you the ability to ring the phone for a full minute even if the phone was set to silent).
Well, that's my little WP7 adventure for this week and, I sincerely hope to never go through this again.
Dave
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