Don’t Be Like Me – Look After Your Mobile Phone
None of us expect it to happen to us, but then it inevitably does. In my case, twice. I am, of course, talking about losing my mobile phone.
The first time I lost my valuable mobile was due to too many beers 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. The following morning, when I realized what had happened, I called the cab firm only to hear that my phone had not been found. I suddenly became aware of how much of my life was stored on that little device.
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’re all guilty of doing 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 went and lost my replacement phone on 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. The truth is that I probably dropped it on the floor when removing cash to pay for drinks at the bar. I told the club staff but my new phone never turned up.
Stupidly, I hadn’t taken out the mobile phone insurance policy that I’d intended to. 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.
Is there a moral to this tale? Maybe a small one. But I strongly suggest that you backup all of your telephone contact details and maybe get yourself some insurance to cover the cost of a replacement.
