Aug
31
How I Lost My Mobile Phone - Twice
Filed Under Life Insurance
We never expect it to happen to us, but then it does. In my case this has happened 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 on my mobile while on my way home in a taxi and I think I must have left it on the back seat. I didn’t realise what had happened until the following day when I called the cab firm only to hear that they didn’t have my phone.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. The cost of replacement was actually the last thing on my mind as I was more concerned by the lost telephone numbers and contact details.
Everybody does it. We run into an old friend and we immediately input their contact details into our telephones and don’t think about transferring those details to our computers or some sort of backup device, like an address book.
I then lost my new phone on yet another night out, but this time I wasn’t drunk. I am convinced that a pickpocket was operating in the club and they had expertly removed the phone from my pocket. It is actually more likely that I dropped it on the floor when trying to get some cash out of my pocket at the bar. I told the nightclub staff but, not surprisingly, my phone never re-appeared.
Stupidly, I hadn’t taken out the mobile phone insurance policy that I’d intended to. But, subsequent to my previous experience I had kept a record of all the new phone numbers and contact details that were on the device so the loss wasn’t quite as disastrous as it had been the previous time.
You may be wondering if there is a moral to this tale? Maybe a little one. But I recommend that you routinely backup all of the contact details stored on your phone and get yourself some insurance cover.