Losing My Mobile Phone for a Second Time
None of us expect it to happen to us, but then it inevitably does. In my case, twice. I’m talking about losing my mobile phone.
The first time I lost my mobile was clearly due to too many drinks on a boys night out. I’d been using my phone while on my homeward journey in a taxi and I must have left it on the back seat of the cab. When I realized what had happened, the following day, I called the cab firm but unfortunately they didn’t have my valuable telephone.It was suddenly painfully clear how much of my life was actually stored on my little mobile telephone.
I vowed that I would be far more careful in future and get myself some mobile phone insurance to cover the cost of replacement. But the expense was the last of my concerns as I’d lost a whole load of telephone numbers and contact details that were only stored on my phone and nowhere else.
We all do it. When we run into an old friend or make a new contact we immediately enter their contact details into our mobile phones and often don’t even think about transfering those details to an address book.
The second time I lost my mobile phone was on another night out but this time I wasn’t the worse for drink. I was convinced that a pickpocket had lifted my mobile from my pocket in the nightclub. It’smore likely that I dropped it on the floor when getting some cash from my pocket at the bar. I told the club staff but my new phone never turned up.
Unfortunately I had not taken out the mobile phone insurance policy that I’d said I would. But due to the pain caused by my previous loss I had at least made note of many of the contact details stored on the phone.
You may be wondering if there is a moral to this tale? Not really. But I strongly recommend that you regularly backup all of your contact details from your mobile phone and consider getting some insurance to cover the cost of replacement.