Monday, May 12, 2025

Pizza shop smartphone mystery

Orange you glad you're nosey?
London, ON
May 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram


The scene: Our son and I have come to pick up pizza for our rather informal Mother’s Day dinner, and while we’re waiting in line we notice this smartphone propped rather precariously on the pockmarked moulding while it charges.

It isn’t immediately clear who owns it, as there’s no one standing or sitting nearby. And all the other folks milling about the space already seem to be heads-down with phones of their own. So I’m guessing it’s either an electronic orphan, or someone has a surplus of trust in complete strangers.

This being a Hallmarkian holiday, the staff are slammed, and we’re in line for a while. I’m struck by the stark geometry of it all, and decide that once we have the pizza in hand it’ll be worth a quick photo before we head home.

Like everyone else in our little family, our son knows the deal, and waits with a smile while I shoot a single frame. Bless him, his sibings, and my wife who have defined patience for as long as we’ve been a family.

We’ll never know whose phone this is, or how it came to be here, which is perhaps as it should be. Because I’ve always loved a good mystery.

And good pizza.

With my favourite people.

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