My cell phone finds have entered the modern age. The media has annoyingly been referring to these as “smart phones”. (Media: please stop calling them that, and stop calling snow “the white stuff”)

I’ve never used a Blackberry… this is actually the first one I’ve even held. I don’t really care for it. The buttons are small, I don’t like the trackball, the screen is cracked, and it won’t make outgoing calls. I guess it would maybe just take some getting used to.

I hope Dawn has a sense of humour because Auntie Debbie sure does. I also hope Dawn is beyond an age where something like this might be traumatizing.

It’s kind of a funny card. However, the breasts look pretty fake. I for one have yet to see breasts with guitar string callouses on them. Perhaps I’m just inexperienced.

I hope you had a lovely birthday, Dawn. I can only imagine what it was like when Uncle presented the cake.

I found this baby bottle on the sidewalk by work. In the distance, a baby cried. Talk about distracting.

The baby bottle holds 236mL, which is perfect because that’s the size of one of those little cans of soda pop.

This lock was found closed and locked. I thought I would try ten combinations each day until I got it open. I started at 001. That wasn’t it. Then I tried 002. That wasn’t it either. By this point, I was already losing hope.

My friend Mark got into it within a few minutes. The combination was 432. That would have taken a while with my method.

I found this credit card on the bridge, with no wallet or person in sight. I don’t know why someone would carry just a loose credit card. Maybe it had been stolen, then lost. Those absentminded thieves…

When I got to work, I phoned the number on the credit card. After bypassing their scrutinizing security checks, I spoke to someone who took my name and number to pass along to the credit card holder.

I haven’t heard from the guy yet. Rude. I didn’t *have to* rescue his card and credit rating… and I don’t want anything in return. But a phone call, high praise, and a steak dinner would be appreciated.

This booklet contained seven transit passes. In this economy, this is a nice find.

The day after finding these, I stepped on a 3″ nail that penetrated my shoe and went into my foot. So these came in quite handy for me. I usually have a 2km walk to work. Thanks to finding these transit passes, that was greatly reduced.

Thanks to modern medicine, my chance of contracting tetanus was also greatly reduced because I had to get a needle after stepping on the nail.

Years ago on TV, I saw a feature about what to do if you find a partial dollar bill. They took it into the bank, it was put on a grid, and the value was calculated and paid out. Wanting to see this process for myself, I took the partial bill into a bank.

The first two people didn’t know what to do with it. The third person, clearly a genius, told me I needed the other half of the bill. The fourth person told me I needed at least 75% of the bill and that they don’t send them to the Bank of Canada until they have 100 of them.

So I left the bill with them, expecting to wait about 80 years to receive my $2.50. A few days later, they phoned and told me to just come in and get a replacement $5 bill. With it, I bought a lottery ticket.

Add another $5 to my tally.

This went towards my lunch, while someone else was left with less lunch money.

I found this lip gloss under a bridge. I don’t know if someone was using it under the bridge or if it was just dropped there.

I bet the owner later dug around for it in her purse, frustrated that she couldn’t find it. By that point, the tube was half empty and I was basking in attention and compliments.

I found a refrigerator but after carrying it for a few blocks realized that it was just too heavy to lug around. I took this magnet from its door instead and found it to be much more manageable.

This is a magnet with a few facts about the state of Idaho, which is a part of the United States of America.

What the magnet doesn’t tell you is that Idaho’s residents are called “Idahoans”, the city of Boise has a S Peasley Street and that in 2007, the state had known 49 murders. It is also against Idaho law to fish on a camel’s back.