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Don’t Be Like Me - Look After Your Mobile Phone

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed

We never think it will happen to us, and then it does. In my case, twice. I am, of course, talking about losing my mobile phone.

The first time was the result of a few too many beers 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. When I realized what had happened, the following day, I called the cab firm but unfortunately they didn’t have my valuable telephone.It suddenly became very clear how much of my life was actually 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 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.

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.

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.

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