The Address Book
- crowley-adrian
- Nov 10, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2020
The Address Book
It was a time before mobile phones were really a thing. I was making a call from a pay phone in Covent Garden in London. Soon after, I realised I had lost my pocket address book. It had all my addresses in it. And I was planning to spend the summer in London. I think I was walking along Denmark Street when I realised it was no longer in my jacket. I retraced my steps back to Charing Cross Road before deciding it was gone.
A week later I was in a remote station waiting for a train. It may have been Cricklewood. I had got on a wrong train and was waiting for another to bring me back in the other direction. It
was empty and quiet. Looking up at the train times I saw I had some time to kill so I started to walk down the platform. As I approached the end of the platform I noticed a guy standing there with his back to me. He must have heard my footsteps because he turned around. Straight away I recognised him as someone I had seen around Dublin. A friend of a friend. He looked at me, reached into his coat pocket and then coolly handed me my address book.
He had received it in the post a couple of days before. Someone had found it on top of a pay phone
in Covent Garden and sent it to the first address they saw in the book.
He acted like it was no big deal but I was gobsmacked. Then he walked away,
Later on the train to Kings Cross, I was trying to figure out why his address had been in my address book. Then I remembered. A mutual friend of ours in Dublin had insisted on writing it in there before I went away on my trip, ‘in case I ever needed anything’, as the Irish always say.
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That story is wild—what are the odds of running into the exact person who had your address book, especially in some random station like Cricklewood? It's funny how losing something pre-smartphone felt so catastrophic, yet the universe somehow sorted it out. Speaking of old-school tech struggles, this reminds me of how I used to obsess over scanning old photos to digitize them, but now I sometimes use a low quality image maker just to give them that nostalgic, grainy feel on purpose. Anyway, did you ever figure out why his address was in there in the first place?
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