{"id":1870,"date":"2010-12-19T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2010-12-09T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:37:38","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2010\/12\/lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common tale but true.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/gucciwallet.org\/images\/BALLY-M004-1.jpg\" style=\"float: right\" width=100 alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a brief moment of panic and disbelief when I found no wallet in the familiar back pocket.  (Most men habitually check their pockets.  They pat for the keys, cell  phone, wallet, or what-not with a routine.)  A search yielded nothing.  I approached the United Airline counter for help.  This nice Japanese woman immediately went to the plane.  Fifteen minutes later, she came back empty-handed.  I went back waiting for my connecting flight, powerless and frustrated in Narita Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Five hours later, I arrived Taipei with no money or credit what-so-ever.  I considered my options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I could call the credit card company and asked for emergency cash.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the hotel concierge will lend me some?<\/li>\n<li>Do I know anyone in this city to borrow from?<\/li>\n<li>Would someone from US wire me money at this hour?<\/li>\n<li>Would my bank wire me some money?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Taipei hotel room, I made a list of its contents: driver license, credit cards, insurance card, etc.  Jet-lagged and sleep deprived, I started the tedious process of finding the phone numbers and reporting the lost.  I stopped after three cards and went to sleep, depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Losing several hundred dollars was the least of my concerns.  I actually did not even know how many credit cards and debit cards were there.  Although I am reasonably protected, canceling each of them will not be fun.  I also needed to get a new driver&#8217;s license and other IDs.  Worst, I faced the risk of becoming the next victim of identify theft.  That experience can be hell and damages take years to repair.<\/p>\n<p>Next day, I got this email message from my admin, &#8220;Someone called and claimed that he has your wallet.  I think it is a fraud, but would check with you anyway.  Did you lose it?&#8221; &#8220;Oh, YES!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/degette.house.gov\/images\/rotator\/banner_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=500 \/><\/p>\n<p>It turned out an <a href=\"http:\/\/degette.house.gov\/\">Diana DeGette, US congress woman<\/a>, found it in the seat pocket on her way from D.C. to Denver.  She gave the wallet to a Tommy Walker, her assistant, who sent me back the wallet, well packed and with everything intact.<\/p>\n<p>Yay.  Happy ending.  Next time, I will carry a spare credit card separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a common tale but true. There was a brief moment of panic and disbelief when I found no wallet in the familiar back pocket. (Most men habitually check their pockets. They pat for the keys, cell phone, wallet, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2010\/12\/lost-and-found\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}