10/31/2026
The tale of a 21st Century Treasure Hunt:
Thursday I'm flying back and as the plane is landing in Lincoln I'm putting my air pods into my case when the plane hits hard. I dropped the case and one airpod flies out .I grabbed the pod but the case slides down the middle of the aisle all the way from near the back where I was sitting up to the front where the flight attendant is sitting. The case slid right down the middle like a bowling ball, it was going fast so other passengers could not grab it in time.
After we stopped the flight attendant announced that she had an airpods case and asked who lost it. I raised my hand and yelled out it's mine. As we leave we ask her asked her for the case and she says she gave it to the guy who said he lost his airpods. I say those were mine can you at least tell us who he was or what he looked like or how he was dressed and she said “no ,sorry I just handed case to him and everyone was moving past me so I do not remember what he looked like.
As we get into the airport we yelled “Does anybody have that airpods case from the plane? "No one responded and then a college student behind me asked me if I had an iPhone I said “yes”. She said “.. go to Find My Device “ I turned it on and it told me that the airpod case was somewhere in the airport but I couldn't get a strong enough signal to narrow it down and eventually the signal went away as I assume the person left airport.
About 45 minutes later I was at home and I was just curious so I turned on the Find My Device again and it said it was 210 N 7th St. I googled that address and it was Laszlo’s. I called Laszlo's and asked if they could make a public address announcement asking for someone who had accidentally taken an airpods case from a plane that had just landed in Lincoln . The Laszlo's manager was great but he said we don't have that type of a PA and we're really busy and you know we'd like to help you out but we just can't .
I said OK and.I thought about it and decided well I'll just drive down to Lazlo's which was 20 minutes away. The Find My Device feature continue to show that the airpods case and the right air bud was at 210 N 70th St.
I arrived and started walking around Lazlo’,s no doubt looking pretty odd as I'm staring at my phone as I went around the restaurant, up and down the aisles. After about 10 minutes I was about to give up. I had walked near the north east corner and I turned around to leave but I looked down and the phone said 14 feet to the right.
I went to the right and started walking and it went 12 feet 10 feet abd then color changed and next thing I was in front of this table of a family finishing their dinner
I asked the man, “Did you acidentally grab an airpods case from the plane that landed from Chicago?” The man looked at me and says “ Oh yeah I do have that this case .I thought I had lost mine “I said “well look at my phone -that's my airpod case because the phone is reacting to it.” He pulled case out of his pocket and said “This case isn't any good because there's only one air bud “ I said that's the right bud in the case and I have the left one in my pocket.”
He handed case over to me. I just said ..”hey this was like a treasure hunt “As I started to walk away I heard his wife say “I told you yours were in your bag’
I was surprised he did not say he was going to turn them in to lost and found at the airport in the morning, but who knows-maybe he was just startled by having this stranger walk up to him at dinner and ask for the airpods case so he did not comment.
Apple makes an amazing product. Thank you Lazlo’s for letting me wander thru restaurant and bar.
