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nearly lost an iPhone

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I just had a very, very close call. On the train back from Nagasaki to Fukuoka, everyone suddenly started getting off the train at the same small station where we switched trains on the way down. This time, the ticket didn't mention that we would switch, nor did Google Blessed Maps mention this as it had on the way down. I hurried to get everything together and left the train .. without my work iPhone, which I was using as a Wi-Fi hotspot. I somehow realized I'd forgotten it, ran back to the first train and found that the guy was switching all the seats. I mentioned my phone and he loudly said simply, "Nai!" (don't have it). By some miracle I found the thing despite the chairs being turned around, sprinted off the train with my hands full of junk, and got onto the next train. Wheew.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my only story from Saga prefecture, in which the sum of my experience was spent on the same platform this morning and now this. Saga's OK in my books! 😅