People Are the Worst…

So I mentioned in the ‘Tagged’ post below that one of my things to do that yesterday was call ATT wireless to inquire about mysterious charges on our cell phone bill. Well, I did that and discovered the mysterious charges were from 5 calls made to Mexico on Sunday, 6/8, totaling about $60.

On Saturday evening, 6/7, I went with my wife to her 10 year high school reunion and over the course of the night somehow misplaced my cell phone. I normally don’t misplace, or even lose, anything so when I got up the next day and noticed I couldn’t find my phone, I was more than just a little hacked off. Maybe I was being naïve but I really did think that whoever found it and would scroll through the contact list and call HOME or WIFE and tell us they found it. I think that just about everyone that I know would have done that so I wasn’t terribly worried. However, when that didn’t happen by mid afternoon that day, I had no choice but to go get a new cell phone (which was a pain because I had to chase down most of the phone numbers I had put in there).

Anyway, after talking to ATT wireless yesterday about the mysterious charges, I added 2 + 2 (I’m good at math) and realized someone found my phone and decided to take advantage of that and make some free international calls…or at least free to them as it wasn’t their phone and wouldn’t be charged for the calls. However, the ATT customer service rep was accommodating and after looking through our last 3 cell phone statements and seeing no international calls, of any kind much less to Mexico, they removed the charges/taxes generated from those calls so we didn’t have to pay for those calls after all.

The audacity of this just kills me though and, as you can tell, I’m still stewing over it. I’m not perfect, by any means, but this kind of thing is ridiculous. Kind of reminds me of the 2 teenage girls who stole the money from a girl scout selling cookies…and weren’t the least bit sorry about it. And I bet whoever found my phone didn’t think twice about taking it either. Sometimes, people are just the worst…