Wow, pretty harsh khairyexpat, no? Firstly, "He" did not mean anything, as "he" is a "she", thank you very much.
Secondly, why are you assuming I would take up the other helpful writer's advice to lie to the police? (I have not filed a report, nor would I -- I do not have insurance, nor do I have the naivete to think the stuff would ever be recovered.)
[background=transparent]RE: advice, police, insurance, filing report, .. [background=transparent]I assumed nothing [/background](not a word ... NONE)[/background]
[background=transparent]The OP was presented with lots of jokes, I only added my 2 cents to @lucha54's funny comment.[/background]
[background=transparent]Thirdly, I resent your comments regarding the lessons my kids learned last night. Yes, I was foolish and careless to leave the laptop case for a few minutes unattended. You know neither the day nor the week nor the month that has preceded this, and therefore you don't know my frame of mind in that fateful moment before I left the laptop case last night. We're all just doing our best, huh? As it turns out, my kids learned a very valuable lesson last about how to stay calm even when something really crummy happens. Instead of losing my temper, screaming, swearing, yelling, I facilitated a nice conversation about how not everyone is "bad" in BsAs, and about how these were not robbers, but rather, opportunists. Later in the evening, we talked about "what would YOU do if you found something that didn't belong to you?" and "Would your answer be different if you were dirt poor and you came across such a jackpot? Why?" and "What are some ways we were lucky with this?" and so on. [/background]
[background=transparent]As a little kid, I never believed a word my mother said.[/background] [background=transparent] I absorbed, sensed, had instinct, felt, .... talked, walked, , ... without her lecturing.[/background]
[background=transparent]Finally, I would like to address your Toronto comment: Not sure about *your* 'hood, but where I come from, when people find something that is not theirs, they turn it in to the nearest authority: counter, cashier, police. The latter then keep it, and turn it over to the owner, should the latter come by and make a descriptive claim. It's called honesty, integrity, helping the world run a little more smoothly. We don't take things that don't belong to us, even if they're shiny and exciting and valuable and just sitting right there in the open, the poor schmuck to whom they belong clearly having left them behind accidentally. We do our best to reunite them with their owners. I have witnessed this both as a finder and a "loser" over my past forty years in Toronto. While I understand that life is complex, and not everyone in Toronto is honest, and not every city is as safe and honest as Toronto, I feel very blessed to call it my home, and I feel sad that BsAs is -- in that regard -- somewhat less evolved.[/background]
Does the bold underlined statement mean what it says?
[background=transparent]The title was not referring to how to recover lost items.[/background]
The correct title should read: "I Finally Did It Myself. I Lost My iPad & Laptop" ...
OR .... "Is There any Chance I can Recover My Lost iPad & Laptop?"
[background=transparent]It's perfectly normal to forget and loose something (it happens all the time to anyone, anywhere, in many ways, ), [/background]
[background=transparent]What is not normal is trying to put a different title on it.[/background]
[background=transparent]I apologized immediately for not recognizing gender from Nickname.[/background]
[background=transparent]With all due respect, I sincerely feel you owe me an apology.[/background]
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