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Jani Nikula

Dear Fediverse, I have a slight problem, best illustrated by the picture below. 🤦‍♂️

My daughter's right AirPod was last seen in a restaurant in Madrid. I can barely order a beer in Spanish, and they hang up on my English. I can't even confirm if they've found it or not.

It's not that big of a deal, I guess, but I just dislike the idea of recycling perfectly working hardware.

Could anyone help me out here please? Just calling the restaurant would be a start.

UPDATE: See reply.

UPDATE:

Sadly, the AirPod hadn't been found at the restaurant, although that is the last known location. With that, the hope for recovering it is pretty much lost.

Cheers to @gabboman for volunteering to call the restaurant. He was the first; it warms my heart that there were so many others too. ❤️

@jani im sorry but this is so amusing lol, i hope someone will help you out

@aks Oh, I can't help laughing myself!

@jani maybe you can eq the right one up really loud and send them messages with it 🤔

@jani spanis here, let me know the name of the restaurant and ill try calling later

@gabboman @jani I am putting this comment here to get updates on that situation

@jani bad news everyone the restaurant says they didn't found them there

@gabboman @jani
Too bad :(
Jani, how old is the information about the earpod in the restaurant? Yesterday? Today?
Maybe another shift has found it or maybe it's still laying in some corner of the toilet or so…?

@jani @LauraLokkie would You like random quest from the Fediverse? :D

@jani send an e-mail to the restaurant? With this picture of course, so they can laugh too 😁

@Emmaf_77 It's a restaurant chain, they don't provide email addresses to the individual restaurants, and the corporate web form lead nowhere. 😔

@jani Spaniard living in Finland here. I can also call them but until June I won't go to Spain (not even close to Madrid) and until July I won't come back to Tampere. I can ask if any Spaniard living in Tampere is going to Madrid any time soon. Also to some in Helsinki

@adelgado Thanks. The first priority is checking if the restaurant has found them at all. Someone already volunteered to call them. We'll know more after that.

@jani @adelgado happy to hear that. Fantastic Fediverse ⭐

@jani once i forgot a pair of airpods on a plane. i could see them travelling for a good 48 hours. someone from the staff must have had taken them. they traveled outside the airport. next day back to the airport. then they disappeared. i am wondering still to this day what has happened to them. They were never returned to the Lost & Found. Find My can be painful to watch. So close and yet so far away.

@jani I bet it fell out in the bathroom. Occupational hazard of having to sit when you pee: your pockets go upside down.

@jani I'll fly to madrid to get them for you. :) Just need to pay for airfare. ;-)

Though at this point, i'd be worried about being able to return to the US....

@tintinaujapon I would think there are worse places to be "stranded" than Madrid, Spain. :)

@jani