True Story
We were in Florida and decided to walk next door to a grocery store after dinner. We arrived back at our hotel and soon realized that somehow between loading groceries into the car and strapping our son into his car seat, we forgot the diaper bag in the shopping cart which contained my new iPad 3G, our son's adoption papers and my hubby's wallet.
I sped back to the grocery store parking lot and there was the cart. It had been moved but it was now empty. I ran inside the grocery store and they told me nothing was turned in. I was frantic but I remembered that I could log into MobileMe from my iPhone and use "Find My iPhone". The little blue dot appeared and showed that my iPad was still in the parking lot. I drove around looking for another cart or maybe someone that grabbed it but was still in the parking lot. After an hour of searching and walking around in the Florida heat/humidity, my heart started to sink.
A security guard was walking by and I asked him if he could help me figure out the location. After a few minutes of getting his bearings, he led me over to the exact spot that the GPS was showing as the location. He said, "You know...this kind of makes sense. This is the car of a grocery store employee. Let me go back inside and put a little fear into them by letting them know you are tracking your bag with GPS." He came back out a few minutes later and said, "Let's see what happens."
Less than a minute later, the employee who owned the car comes out and says, "Oh hey! I found your bag!!" He opens his trunk and there was my bag! He tried to explain to me that he was going to bring it in after his shift was over and turn it in to lost and found. Of course, he was lying because he was the guy who brought in the carts and all the carts were inside except the cart that had our bag. I told him that he did not have to explain and that I was just so happy to have our bag back. (I didn't tell him that I was going to track my bag all night and call the cops as soon as I figured out where it settled in for the night!)
I am completely sold on the GPS on the iPad and iPhone because it tracked my iPad down to the EXACT parking spot where my bag was. I am so glad I had the Find My iPhone locator and I am so thankful to the security guard (who wanted only a compliment passed along to his supervisor).
