Divine Intervention

10 days or more ago I lost the wee stylus that slides into the base of my phone.

No big deal - except that I spent an entire day roaming around the city into every mobile phone shop I could find - and there are literally hundreds of them looking for a replacement.

Now every shop had a box full of maybe a hundred or so different types for every phone imaginable - except mine 'cos its relatively new. (Why is it necessary for every stylus for every model and every type of phone to be different?)

Eventually though I managed to find a 'cheap rip off’ copy of the real thing - and that still cost me $10!!

Stay with me here OK....

Walking home from work today past the Buddhist centre (I have only been past this way once before since I've been here) I just happened to glance down to see a phone stylus in the middle of the footpath.

What are the chances........ considering too that every morning here the footpaths are swept to within a micrometre of the thickness of the seal by a fleet of broom wielding little old ladies and men.

This is a footpath on a street that has a traffic jam twice a day as children go to and from the international school next to the Buddhist centre so its not just a sleepy wee side street.

OK... so believe it or not the stylus is a genuine Nokia Xpress Music 5800 stylus (remember every model is different), and it is even the same colour as my original one.

Now explain to me what the chances of that happening are eh??

I reckon its about the same as leaving a full bottle of beer on the footpath in central Dunedin and it still being there after a weekend!!

So now I have two.

Believe it or not - it happened here!!!!!