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Can anyone beat this?
Unbeknownst to me, my Kindle is flung from a moving car on a Monday afternoon; (don't ask) screensaver is on, wireless is off, in the standard jacket but I believe the jacket was fastened OPEN.
When I got home, couldn't find it - must have left it a work. Tuesday at work, couldn't find it, must be at home. Tore house, car, and office apart, still no Kindle.
I work at a mall, and I thought maybe I dropped it in the parking lot. So I called Amazon - guy was very helpful - told me that the wireless had been turned on since it was lost, so I knew someone had found it. Told him I did not want to de-register it, on the off chance that I managed to get it back. He had me change my one-click to a dummy credit card so that they would not be able charge my account, and I sent a document to the kindle itself offering a reward for its return.
Wednesday, I could see that they had not turned the wireless on again yet, so my document had not been received... In the Mall we're not allowed to put signs up anywhere... So I asked the secretary in the Mall office if she could put my 'lost' sign up and she said she could put it on the community bulletin board.
She is sitting in the mall office conference room eating lunch, with my sign on the table next to her, when the DHL delivery guy bring in a package... he sees the sign on the table and shouts, "I found that thing!" Apparently, he found it on the side of the road (a mile from my house) on Tuesday - had no idea what it was or what to do with it.
So my Kindle was flung from a moving car, spent the night on the side of the road, on and uncovered, don't remember if it rained that night but he said it was wet when he found it.
And it still works! Other than getting kinda scratched up, the only thing apparently wrong with it is I have trouble with the screensaver hot keys.
So do I get a prize for being the luckiest you-know-who, or do I get reamed for being the stupidest you-know-what (because it was my fault it got flung from the car)?
Anyway, one thing I would recommend to EVERYBODY is that it's not enough to have your name, phone # etc in the kindle properties, because if you lose it, the person who finds it will probably have NO IDEA what it is or how to get to the identification screen, but there are lots of honest people out there and having your contact info right on the unit in plain sight could save you lots of grief.
Unbeknownst to me, my Kindle is flung from a moving car on a Monday afternoon; (don't ask) screensaver is on, wireless is off, in the standard jacket but I believe the jacket was fastened OPEN.
When I got home, couldn't find it - must have left it a work. Tuesday at work, couldn't find it, must be at home. Tore house, car, and office apart, still no Kindle.
I work at a mall, and I thought maybe I dropped it in the parking lot. So I called Amazon - guy was very helpful - told me that the wireless had been turned on since it was lost, so I knew someone had found it. Told him I did not want to de-register it, on the off chance that I managed to get it back. He had me change my one-click to a dummy credit card so that they would not be able charge my account, and I sent a document to the kindle itself offering a reward for its return.
Wednesday, I could see that they had not turned the wireless on again yet, so my document had not been received... In the Mall we're not allowed to put signs up anywhere... So I asked the secretary in the Mall office if she could put my 'lost' sign up and she said she could put it on the community bulletin board.
She is sitting in the mall office conference room eating lunch, with my sign on the table next to her, when the DHL delivery guy bring in a package... he sees the sign on the table and shouts, "I found that thing!" Apparently, he found it on the side of the road (a mile from my house) on Tuesday - had no idea what it was or what to do with it.
So my Kindle was flung from a moving car, spent the night on the side of the road, on and uncovered, don't remember if it rained that night but he said it was wet when he found it.
And it still works! Other than getting kinda scratched up, the only thing apparently wrong with it is I have trouble with the screensaver hot keys.
So do I get a prize for being the luckiest you-know-who, or do I get reamed for being the stupidest you-know-what (because it was my fault it got flung from the car)?
Anyway, one thing I would recommend to EVERYBODY is that it's not enough to have your name, phone # etc in the kindle properties, because if you lose it, the person who finds it will probably have NO IDEA what it is or how to get to the identification screen, but there are lots of honest people out there and having your contact info right on the unit in plain sight could save you lots of grief.
