Thursday, February 14, 2008

How did it end up there?

If anyone has an idea of how it ended up at this place, please let me know!

I would like to start off by telling you all how awesome my husband is and how great he is at negotiations, he got a great deal at Bally's Gym. So he went there the other day and of course had his work cell phone with him. He went to the locker room and then left. As he was walking out to the car he realized he didn't have his phone. Of course he went back in to check around and ask the front desk but nothing. He came home feeling beat. He told me what happened and that at one moment he left his locker alone unlocked and figured that's when it happened. He was going to have to talk to his boss and tell him that his phone was stolen after only having it for a week. He was also feeling humiliated, which I'm sure anyone would in this situation. I know I would.

He was about to call his boss when he decided he would try calling his phone to see if he would have any luck. Sure enough someone answered the phone. They spoke Spanish and no English whatsoever. He kept trying to get them to hand the phone to someone who spoke English. After several attempts he finally got someone on that spoke a little English. She told him that it was at a hair salon and told him the location. We looked it up to see how to get there and it was several miles from the gym's location. The gym is right by where he works and it's a pretty nice area. As we were traveling to the location it started looking a little fierce. Bars on the windows, sketchy people hanging out on the corners and overall just a run down area. We started coming up with some strategy's thinking something could happen to us, that this could be a set up. Ha Ha funny huh!? Josh said," If I don't come out in fifteen minutes call my phone and if I don't answer call the cops." " Oh and lock the doors!" He was also going to park down the street so the girls and I wouldn't be in sight of the place. We were a little paranoid don't you think?! But seriously, it was just a little weird. I mean he gets his phone stolen and then he calls it and someone answers. If you stole a phone would you answer it? And if you found a phone somewhere would you take it with you or just leave it or take it to the front desk? And then how did it end up in the bad part of town at a hair salon. Oh, another thing, it kind of took us a while to get there because it was up by his work which takes 20 minutes and then from there it took us about another 15 minutes to find the place. The weird thing about that was the guy who had it was just sitting there and when Josh walked in he gave him the phone and Josh walked out. Then the guy walked out and left. So we were thinking that he waited there until we got there. Super nice but weird. Everything about it was just weird.

Well we got the phone back and nothing happened to us. We made it out alive! HaHaHa

Any thoughts???

6 comments:

Bill Bates said...

You lucked out. I am glad it turned out well. Be sure to trust your instincts.

Merrilee said...

Sheer luck! That is wild! It is surprising when people do crazy stuff like that (taking a phone and answering it) and then turning around and doing the right thing. Maybe the guy was trying to do the right thing, but just went about it in a strange way. At least Josh got the phone back - super wild!

I do love that you guys were such pro's and were all prepared for anything that might happen. Next time I do recon I'm going with you. :)

Morgan said...

I gotta say it sounded pretty creepy to me!

Leisel said...

Crazy! The adventures of life. . .

Sarah said...

Criminals are idiots......and have absolute no reason. Troy's brother is a cop in Orange County, CA and the stories he tells are outrageous...and it goes to show you that there is no reason to alot of action. You guys are brave to track it down!!

vk said...

Welcome to Denver!!!!!!!!!!!
We will survive it together. We need to take a class is Spanish :( Or I just call Jonathan. Stay close to me.

Love,
Verlinda