By AJ Picard- Self taught designer & founder of Chad.

Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

It all started with my girlfriend and I sitting on a bench during a beautiful Thursday evening. We were in a little park area behind our apartment which we go to regularly just to talk about life/work.

I look forward to our talks each day, when you’re dating your best friend you’ll find out you can talk for hours…

I remember placing my phone to the left of me on the bench and for some reason when I placed it there I was thought to myself…

I’m going to forget this.

I did this to be focused on my girlfriend and I’s conversation.

An hour went by and we decided to get up and leave, it was around 7:30 PM. We came up to our apartment and started making dinner. I turned the TV on and put on the new episode of Black Mirror.

If you don’t watch Black Mirror I highly suggest you start, it’s the trippiest show.

The episode ended and we started cleaning up + getting ready for bed, I went to grab my phone but couldn’t find it anywhere.

I looked under the couch, rug, table, bed, couldn’t find it. I started thinking where did I see it last?

3 seconds later…

I let my girlfriend know the tragic news, she starts helping me look for it throughout the house. I told her I’m 100% confident I left it on the bench outside because I don’t remember using it since we got in our apartment.

She goes ok well can you try pinging it with your Apple Watch?

I picked up my watch to find out it’s not connected to my phone, which concluded that the phone was not in our apartment.

So we went to the next resort, Find My iPhone.

I logged in and started watching my phone move across the map. I couldn’t believe this was happening, how did I forget my iPhone?

We put my phone into lost most and I created a message that had my girlfriends number for the person who had my phone to call. I was hoping the individual that had my phone would see our message and call my girlfriend.

A couple of minutes go by and we haven’t heard anything, all I see is my phone traveling across Baltimore, MD. We started pinging the phone from the Find My iPhone App and two minutes later…

We received a call.

I talked to the man on the phone and told him I was on my way to where he was located.

My girlfriend and I drove 7 minutes down the road to a local club, I pinged the phone again so that the individual would call me back.

I spotted the guy outside the club with his girlfriend, I walked over to him and I told him how much I really appreciate him for taking care of my phone. He told me how he was waiting at the spot I lost my phone for an hour.