HOW I SEE IT: That’s not your cell phone, Angie

I have to say, the majority of the people who have touched my life have been good people. So I guess I should consider myself lucky.

But on the night of Oct. 27, someone touched my life in a bad way.

Several of us, along with my sister, were at the candlelight vigil for victims of domestic violence when my sister realized she didn’t have her cell phone. We checked the parking lot and my vehicle, thinking she dropped it. When we got back to her apartment parking lot, we checked there too. But it was nowhere to be found.

Now, my sister is one of the kindest souls you could imagine. She doesn’t have much, but if you need it, she’ll give it to you. That’s the way she is.

She spends a lot of time volunteering with the church and visiting shut-ins. She is disabled and on a fixed income, so little things matter a lot to her. Things such as having a cell phone so that her daughter, who has severe asthma, can reach her at any time, in the event of an emergency.

When we realized the cell phone was gone, we tried calling it. The person who had found the phone picked it up and said, “This is Angie and this is my cell phone.”

When my sister tried to explain that she had lost the phone, and that this woman obviously found it, the woman hung up. When I tried to call, she said hello and then hung up. Since she didn’t want to talk to us, I decided to send her a polite text message thanking her for finding the phone, and listed my sister’s home phone, so she could be contacted.

But this inconsiderate woman chose to keep the phone, use up all my sister’s minutes and give the phone number out to other people so they could call her, as if it were her phone to use. All this before my sister could have the phone number disconnected.

I can’t imagine the kind of person who would do this.

Yes, cell phones are replaceable. But they are not cheap. Our mother taught us that just because we find something, doesn’t mean it’s ours to keep. We were taught to do our best to find the owner of an item, to return it.

This “Angie” knew she did something wrong. I hope she is reading this and finds it in her heart to change — do the right thing and return the phone. She has my sister’s phone number now.