I lost my AirPods a few days ago, and I felt like I was living in a CSI episode.
I noticed they were gone in the morning. They were not on my nightstand, nor on my desk, nor in my tiny pants pockets. Ergo, they were lost to me, since those are the only places where I keep them. Fear sets in…
Before being able to do a thorough search I had to leave for work, so I used the Find My app to make sure they were in the house. They were.
When I was at work I checked again, to make sure they weren’t in the car. They were still at my house. I was no longer worried.
When I came home that evening, I used the Find My app to try and locate their signal. I canvassed every floor in the house – but no signal.
It was then that I noticed the last time their signal was picked up was at 14:59 that afternoon…
My wife did do laundry around that time! I searched the machine… but they were not there. Thankfully. Though no closer to finding them, still…
I searched the garden next. I had reason to suspect I lost them the night before, because I had to climb over our fence to retrieve the spare key (don’t ask). But I could not find them anywhere near my area of impact…
Now I’m accounting for two scenarios: the battery died in an unexpected location, or someone found them outside the fence around the time that they were last seen.
Either way, I would probably not find them by searching further. I decided to enable Lost Mode and hope my phone picks up the signal sometime during my normal routine.
We go to bed. I take off the pants that I wore yesterday as well, and instictively reach into the tiny pocket. No AirPods, of course. But I do feel an old set of earplugs that I must have stuffed in there after a concert. That explains why the AirPods case was sitting so high in the pocket the day before I lost it. This could have all been avoided…
A restless night passes.
The next day, upon cross-examinating my wife, she recalls hearing the sound of something falling when I jumped over the fence. Aha! But I searched the garden already with the Find My app to no avail…
But, if the battery is dead…?
I decide to give the garden another go. On hands and knees I crawl around, looking under the deck and through the brush, until… good grief;
There it is, wedged between some bamboo!
Case closed. 🙏
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