An Eclipse, A Lost iPhone, and Reason for Hope

As we gathered around to watch the eclipse Anna placed her iPhone on the bumper of our car, then promptly forgot about it.
An hour later we were thirty miles away in Salisbury, and Anna called us on her boyfriends phone in tears, hoping that we might have seen her phone…It was gone. She’d remembered that it was on our rear bumper. My wife and I both remembered seeing it there, but neither of us gave it another thought.
We re-traced our steps all the way back to Ocean Pines. I walked the last four miles — Along Rt. 90 all the way to our house in the Pines. Cathy drove all the way back to Salisbury, hopeful that she might find it along the side of the road…No luck. The phone was gone.
I logged into “find-my-iPhone” but it couldn’t be located. My guess was that it was destroyed by a car running over it, or someone found it and turned it off. As a last hope, I placed the phone in lost mode…
I know this is a “First-World-Problem”, but our day went from great to ruined in an instant. I couldn’t even be mad at our daughter. I was disappointed that she’d forgotten about her phone, but she knew she’d made a mistake. She was in tears, and even brought me all of the money she’d made from selling her handmade soaps at the Farmer’s Market this summer.
I told her to hold on to her money, and give it some time — Who knows, maybe it will be found.
Then my phone rang! It was a call from her phone!
Thank God for the immigrant family, who barely spoke enough English to call me and let me know that her phone was found…In the middle of Rt. 50 at Walston Switch Road. They would accept no reward, and were just happy to see the phone returned to our little girl…So glad that it fell into the right hands!
The phone was in perfect condition! No shattered screen…Not a scratch!
Here’s a link to the Speck Case that her phone was in http://amzn.to/2vUxXJy
