How nifty is that?

The story starts last Wednesday when Brandon (one of our music/video interns) and I went to Big Jim’s for lunch.  For reasons unknown, I took my car keys out of my pocket and put them in the cup holder of his car.  We had lunch, we came back to work, all was well … except that I forgot that my keys were in Brandon’s car. 

I had forgotten all about my keys until after band rehearsal which was around 12:30am.  Brandon had already left, which didn’t matter because I had long forgotten that my keys were still in his car.  After searching everywhere I could think of looking (I had only been in a couple areas all day), I gave up hope of finding my keys.  It was 2:30am, and I was exhausted.  I found my way to a room with a comfy couch and crashed there for the night, hoping to get some decent rest.

I woke up about 6 hours later (I actually had a shower and a change of clothes), and for no apparent reason, updated my Facebook status something to the effect of "Dave has lost his car keys."  About 15 minutes later, Brandon (who is way more into Facebook than I am) showed up at my desk with a grin, plopped my car keys down on my desk and said "Did you lose these?  I saw your Facebook status and remembered the keys in my cup holder."

So there you have it — I experienced a tangible benefit from being in a social network.  I wish I could say that it wouldn’t be the last time, but the jury’s still out on that.