Ever Lost Your Phone?
@petertheo (148)
South Africa
November 4, 2015 10:58pm CST
A couple of years ago my wife said to me that I should buy a new phone. I said that I didn't need a new one because my present one worked fine. I had had this one for six years and was very satisfied and comfortable with it. She said I should get a phone that we can read our email on and that these new smart phones can do all sorts of things nowadays. To cut a long story short I splashed out on new Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus and have never looked back. Just put the old phone away in a box somewhere. I am crazy about my new phone now and don't know how I ever did without it!
Why am I telling you all this? Because yesterday I lost it! It happened that when I went to bed I looked for the phone to put it on the bedside table where I put it every night. I couldn't find it! I looked everywhere for it but to no avail! Then I thought to myself, "When did you last use it?" I had looked for email while having lunch out after church and remember putting in my pocket. When we got home I thought I had put it next to my laptop on the desk but it wasn't there. Eventually I turned our whole place inside out but nothing! By this time it was about 1 am and I was getting frantic. My wife told me to stop carrying on because she wanted to sleep.
Ah! I thought, I must call my phone from her phone! All I heard was the mailbox to leave a message - no ringing tone anywhere! By this time I had visions of my phone in the hands of someone else who had stolen it. Then I remembered my phone had an anti virus App called AVG Free that had an anti theft feature. I logged into the site on my laptop and clicked on "Locate Phone". Incredibly it showed my phone was at my location so I clicked on the "Shout" button and suddenly I heard my phone ringing. It had fallen off the desk and wedged itself between my laptop case and the settee. Was I relieved to find it!
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@maggs224 (2320)
• Alicante, Spain
9 Nov 15
Everyone in the family has mobile phones and so as they buy new ones the old ones make their way down to me. I don't use mobile phones much and when I do it is often at the urging of a family member asking me to take one with me. I have had more than one friend complain about me not answering their texts.
What can I say? I didn't know that my phone could do that. When the battery runs down it doesn't do anything, which is quite a lot of the time lol.. My son and husband both have that locator app thingy on their phones which I must admit I think is a cool app. If I lost mine it would probably take me about two months to realise it was lost lol...
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@petertheo (148)
• South Africa
9 Nov 15
Smart phones are here to stay I think - they aren't just a passing phase.
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
5 Nov 15
It's amazing to me that you were able to locate your phone in that way. I've never had a smartphone, I've just got a basic one for calls and texts. I lost it a couple of months ago and eventually bought another one (only a cheap one), and then of course I found it. So now I have two.
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@petertheo (148)
• South Africa
5 Nov 15
And what a relief that was in finding it!
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@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
2 May 17
I have 2 smart phones an iPhone and an android Alcatel.
@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
2 May 17
I got my iPhone back from the trampoline park.
@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
2 May 17
I left my iPhone at Area 51 trampoline park.
@workathomefan (8957)
• Prairieville, Louisiana
2 May 17
I have never lost a phone but misplaced it.