We never expect it to happen to us, but then it does. In my case, two times. I am, of course, 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.
Everybody does 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.
I then lost my new phone on yet another night out, but this time I wasn’t drunk. 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 was in a nightclub so I told the bar staff and security guys but, unfortunately, my phone didn’t turn up.
Unfortunately I had not followed my own advice and hadn’t taken out a mobile phone insurance policy. But my experience the last time I’d lost my phone had led to my making note of most of the contact details on my phone.
I suppose there is a moral to this sorry tale? Maybe a small one. 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.