My iPad Thanksgiving adventure

My friend and I were invited for a Thanksgiving dinner in New Jersey. We took a cab uptown to get on time to the Port Authority where we were going to take a bus.

The traffic was horrendous because of the Thanksgiving day Parade, and 10 blocks from the Port Authority we decided to continue on foot, because we would get there faster.

We stopped in a flower shop to get flowers for our hostess, and I suddenly realized that the bag containing my iPad and my digital camera was not with me! I left it in the cab!! Too late to find the cab.

I had a panic attack! My iPad, my best companion before going to sleep (yes, don’t laugh! I do my reading in bed!). Images of doom came to my mind. Sensitive information was contained in that little tablet, which I did not care to share with anybody! What to do? What to do?

My friend and I did some visualization and I prayed to God, the Angels, the Universe that my iPad would return to me unharmed, hoping to be heard!

We got to Port authority, took our bus and arrived on time for an Italian style Thanksgiving dinner (the turkey was a side dish!!). I had time to submit a lost and found request to the Yellow Cabs company ($47, just for the asking) and then enjoyed my dinner as much as I could, trying to forget about the fate of my iPad.

When we got home, I opened my computer and found an e-mail that made my heart jump with joy!

“Hello,

I found a tote bag with an iPad & camera in it today in a taxi. I think they are yours.

Please call me at…….”

I dialed the number and a woman answered, immediately recognizing my name. She explained to me that she was the next passenger on the cab and immediately saw my tote bag. She looked into it and saw the iPad and camera. She herself has the same tablet and realized that whomever lost this gadget must be very upset, because if it has been her, she would be very upset! So she decided to take it with her try to figure out who it belonged to.

This was some detective work, because my iPad is locked and there was name or any indication of the owner. So she did research, using a little icon placed at the bottom of the screen which, when touched, reveals the photo gallery. She looked at my pictures, hoping to find a clue! And there it was! An art show where I was the artist, with my art on the wall and me in front the pictures. She located the signature on the artwork, and put my name on Google, and the rest is history!! You can’t hide anything from Google!!

It just happens that April (that’s the name of my Angel) is also an artist and studied in France for a while. I went this morning to pick up my belongings and met her and her husband in person. They are wonderful people, warm and generous, and we really hit it off, and we are now friends (also on Facebook!).

I am going to help her with her website as a token of gratitude for saving my iPad and my digital camera.

Voila. This is the Thanksgiving miracle I wanted to reveal to the world!!

If you have an iPad or tablet or digital camera, please put your name and phone number on it, because not everybody is as smart an investigator as April. Thank you April!! God bless you!