How I Lost My Mobile Phone - Twice

We never think it will happen to us, and then it does. In my case, 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 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.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. 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'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 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 little 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.