TIFU by wasting police resources and being a forgetful idiot

This happened literally this morning.

Today started off in all the wrong ways. I woke up late because my phone alarm was on silent, rushed to get my morning routine done, and fled out the door to work.

In my rush to work, I stopped at the gas station for a breakfast burrito and Red Bull. While there I placed my phone down on the counter, quickly paid and left. I rushed into my car, ate while driving, got to work at the exact time I needed to clock in... and noticed my phone was gone. Just not there, nowhere in the car.

Well, shit, I must’ve left it on the counter. So I told my boss I was heading back for my phone and left to go back to the gas station.

At the gas station my phone was gone and the manager told me she didn't see any phone left on the counter. I asked if I could see the security footage and she informed me that, no, I couldn’t see any security footage. She straight-up told me to get the cops if I want to see the footage.

Okay, well, I am a mechanic for the police, so I went back to work. Which is a police station with a garage. I then asked for a detective at the office and I was immediately helped out there. I filed a report, he said he would go to the gas station, and I went back to work.

At this point I’m so confident my phone was taken that I told people about it. Like a, “Get how crazy this is,” story.

Not even 45 minutes go by when the detectives pulled up with my phone. They found it at the curb and saw on tape that I put it on top my car when I got in to leave. It fell to the curb as I drove away.

TL;DR Nobody stole my phone, I just basically dropped it. I used police to figure this out.