Sunday 5 June 2011

Ah! You called......? Why.....?

It is common practice for passengers to forget items on board aircrafts when they get to their destination. A good number of them are either too tired or to scared during the flight to be so aware of what they have forgotten. In the lost and found cabinet, you would be shocked to see the kinds of things passengers have forgotten over the years: Radios, Ipods, Glassed, bibles, I.D cards, Pens (Mont Blonc type stuff), face caps and a host of others. What most of them remember and come back for are items like Phones, Laptops, and other gadgets of the sort.
It is actually a phone that inspires this story. On arrival of a local flight Abuja-Lagos,after disembarkation of passengers, during security checks and cleaning a GSM phone was discovered.As with normal procedure, it was handed over to the Lost&Found department. After logging it in, the agent scrolls through the phone to check for recently received or dialled number so as to get the exact identity of the passenger that owns the phone as it may  have dropped from the passenger onto another seat.
It was during this search that the agent discovered a recently called number stored as "HONEY". So he proceeded to call the number and got the shock of his life:

Agent: Good day, please this phone was found on an Abuja-Lagos flight. We would like the owner to come to our office to pick it up with valid I.D.
HONEY: What do you mean? what game are you playing? Have you stolen this phone?
Agent: No sir, as i introduced myself (******) and i would like you to get across to the owner of this phone so he/she can come pick it up.
HONEY: That's impossible,i just spoke to the owner less than 2hrs ago and she is in Benue, i wonder how you got this phone. I would call her friends and get back to you.
Just as he drops the call, a lady walks in claiming to have forgotten her phone on board. As  she made to show the boarding pass with which she came, it was discovered that the phone in question was the same the agent was trying to unite with the owner.
Agent: Oh! you are welcome, we have been making efforts to unite you with your phone. We even called "Honey" so it would be easier.
Young Lady: What? You called "Honey"?
Agent: Yes we did, he is going to call back anytime now.
Young Lady: Who told you to call "Honey" (Now sobbing), why did you call "Honey" (still sobbing), ah! you shouldn't have called "Honey" (now looking weak at the knees), ah, "Honey"! what did you tell "Honey"? ah, you called "Honey", you shouldn't have called "Honey" (with teary eyes)
At this point we were torn between laughing and crying, for she had apparently told the young man she was in school, when she was actually in the airport en route Lagos to meet some other guy. The  bubble burst only due to her carelessness. I guess from now on she would be careful about how she saves names on her phone? I think you too should.

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