A visit to the police station

Apologies to those that might have gotten a phone call from the police via my phone. Apparently, I left my phone somewhere and a kind person turned it into a police officer who subsequently went down my phone list to try and get someone to contact me. I didn't even realize I had lost my phone until I arrived back at the office and Etchy remarked that my phone was at the Sheung Wan Police station. Now that I have my phone back i can say it was an interesting experience overall. The cops down in the Sheung Wan station appear to be a cheerful bunch, and it was a funny lesson in bureaucracy.

I asked the front desk person about lost items and he say's "Sit down". I wait and wait and noticed there was a lost items counter close to the entrance and asked the lady inside there if it's the place for lost items and she says yes. (So why did the first guy just tell me to sit?) She asks if I have a reference or case number and I say no. She talks a little on her phone and then says "Sit down."
So there I am sitting down when I notice about 6 or so police officers just mingling around the front desk and I notice one of them sliding a phone open and closed. "Hey! That's MY phone!". The guy gives me a surprised look and hands it over to the guy behind the front desk. Then another guy comes out and asks (what I mostly interpreted through body language) "Whose looking for a lost phone?".  So I tell him and he again asks for a case number. I say I don't have one and he tells me to write a descrīption and I respond "It's THAT phone! Look here..." I pull out my name card and say "See that phone number, call that number and the phone will ring." I don't think he understood because then he proceeded to ask "Ok, what model is it....What carrier is it..." All this while another guy pops out from the back room and starts looking at my phone. They ask "Do you have a receipt for the phone?" I say "No, it was bought in the United States. Can you just try to call this number?" The first guy starts all over with "We have to verify details so we know its your phone..can you write down...."  Look, if you turn it off and on it'll say T-Mobile. There can't be very many phones like that in HK." Then the other guy asks a third guy who comes out of the back room and says "So on the screen, what company will it say?" And I proceed to explain that you have to turn the thing off first, then on and it'll say T-mobile.  And then he finally says, "Why don't you just call the phone?" So i think I finally get them to believe that it might be my phone.
Unfortunately, I don't like carrying my passport around all the time, so I had to go back home to get it. Before I left the office they STILL asked "Do you have a receipt? What about a receipt from the carrier?"
So I get back and think "OK, they'll probably just copy my passport and give me my phone". Well, that's essentially all they did, but it took the guy another hour to do it.

So the lesson learned here? Get more sleep.

Last time I was sleep deprived I lost my wallet in a cab in Shanghai, and ended up losing my train ticket mid-journey on the train into Tokyo. Luckily neither were of much consequence (although the wallet was a gift from my sister...).
This time I got 3 hrs of sleep and did a 1.2K swim in the morning. I was out for lunch and ended up using my phone as a watch because I left my watch in the office. Well, I ended up leaving my phone somewhere too...