"Go quick, come back quicker"

[conuly]

My mother used to say that to me when I left the house. I guess it comes from French, or maybe even Walloon originally - I've never heard anybody say that but Mommy and Bonne-Maman, and I think Bonne-Maman told me once that her mother used to say it to her, so there you go.

And now I don't know anybody who says it anymore.

I took my mother's actual number off my phone, but I left the entry for "Mommy" there. I know that if *I* find a phone that's unlocked the first thing I do is call "Mom" or "Dad" to let them know where whoever-it-is left their phone, but obviously that's not going to work now. Be a bit weird if it did! Still, I couldn't stand to actually remove the entry, so now it's just a name that leads nowhere.

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[thewayne]

A decade ago, my aunt found a lost phone at a casino. Why she kept it instead of giving it to security, I do not know. When she told me about it - she never owned or used a cell phone - it had enough juice to power up and I found an entry for mom & dad. Called them from my phone, confirmed their daughter had lost her phone, she called me - she was a FedEx manager. I dropped it off at the local office, they sent it back to El Paso, and they were reunited.

I still have my parent's number in my phone, that's a good idea to reroute it to someone else who can get it back to you.

[foms]

I know that *I* don't tend to turn in found objects to sites or 'phone companies because I don't trust them to make any real effort. I missed a calling as a skip-tracer.