Lost & Found: Uber’s 7th Lost & Found Index
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Most of us have forgotten something in a mode of public transport – be it a smartphone, sunglasses, or a jacket hastily flung onto the seat whilst fumbling around with luggage. Heck, a former managing editor of this place once managed to inexplicably leave his passport on an airplane, stranding him in a foreign country whilst he frantically sought a replacement.
In that vein, ridesharing company Uber has complied its 7th annual snapshot of riders’ most forgotten and most unique lost items.
To no one’s surprise, smartphones make their way well into the top ten of commonly forgotten items in Uber cars – though they aren’t number one. That honor is bestowed upon the catch-all category of clothing. Since this is a term which can encompass everything from hats to jackets and belts to shoes, it makes sense at the top of this list. Backpacks and purses are at number three, wallets at number four, and headphones round out the top five.
Hilariously, the stats nerds at Uber also list the top ten “most forgetful” cities, with Jacksonville and San Antonio duking it out for the American city whose residents left the most items behind after departing an Uber ride. Further abroad, Forgetful Canadians reported losing everything from a bed sheet to an Apple pen to a bathroom shelf. Londoners lost some pesto, a plastic Halloween sword, ankle splints and a jet washer. French folks left behind a breast pump and Peugeot car keys. We’ll leave it to our readers to opine on the regionality of all these items.
Diving even further down an all-too-specific rabbit hole, Uber says some of the most forgetful days of the week in their rideshare cars are Saturday and Sunday, though they don’t specify if this is by volume or per capita. Either way, we’re willing to bet an outsized number of rides occur on those two days, so it makes sense for a lot of gear to be left behind on weekends. Oddly, the month of April – specifically, the 5th and 9th – were two of the annum’s “most forgetful” days; we’d have banked on New Year’s Day when all hands are stumbling home from a party but January 1st apparently only ranks third on the list.
Hey, we’re all human. Except for that former managing editor, of course.
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I left my AirPods in an airplane at DFW airport about two months ago. I improbably got them back.
By the time I got to the hotel and realized they were not in the pocket of my bag where they were supposed to be, and that I had left them in the airplane seat pocket instead, Find My told me they were at a random house in Arlington. Not having a rental car for that trip, and also not especially wanting to confront unkown persons over a $200 set of noise-canceling headphones, I figured they were gone. I put them in "Lost Mode" (which keeps anyone from re-pairing them and just plays a message if someone puts them in ears) and didn't think much of it.
Three days later, business trip over, I was waiting in the departure lounge at DFW with about an hour to kill before my flight home when Find My suddenly alerted and said my AirPods were nearby. I started following its guidance, and it led me across the terminal to a Spirit gate. The near-field finding feature traced them to the bag of a passenger waiting for the flight. I asked her whether she had happened to find a pair of AirPods. She pointed at hers (of a different model, in a case) and said they were the only ones she had. I asked her to double-check, and she sort of did, but then she got up and started walking away.
Still playing the confused tourist, I said to others nearby "I wonder if they're under these chairs?" and sounded them. From around 30 feet away, the woman's bag rang. One guy wanted to go confront her, but I motioned to him to just sit down. Thankfully, he did.
I stood nearby, by myself but visible, in the hopes that she'd have second thoughts - especially knowing that she would not be able to use the AirPods or sell them for more than a few cents on the dollar. After about 15 minutes, she quietly came over, handed me the headphones, and said "I looked again and found them." Sure you did. I thanked her, turned my back quickly, and walked back to my gate. They were intact and working fine after a good cleaning, and I've taken four more flights since without misplacing them.
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