Anyone Ever Lost Their Cell Phone?
rootlesscosmo
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This is a nightmare. It fell out of my pocket in the cab on the way home Sat. night. I realized it was gone as soon as I got to the top of my stairs. Cab gone. Don't even remember the cab company. I have called every cab company in the city and nothing's come in yet. I called the phone and it's either dead or whoever found it turned it off. There's probably a quarter of those numbers in there I will never be able to recover; folks I am not in e-mail contact with who I'm just gonna have to wait to call me. Bammer.
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Once I lost my phone and some nice lady found it and used the 'home' autodial to tell me she found it, wish that was the case for you dude.
Mine slipped into a full glass of water a week back and totally frazzled out, $95 brought it back to life, I was kinda pissed but I guess its better then losing it
At least you just cleaned out a lot of numbers you probably will never need again. You'll be ok my man, stay focused and hydrate.
analog iceyness....
either that...or transpose all numbers to a book...that's what I do...then if it goes...at least i have my #s still...
what a nightmare...sorry duder...that sucks..
Definitely. I dropped my phone once in Portland but the guy who found it answered and we met up so I could get it back. Only reason he probably didn't keep it is cause the screen didn't work.
The one I bought after that has Bluetooth (most probably do now) and while I can't do much with the phone I have, I can wirelessly transfer contacts to my computer which I highly recommend next one you get.
Keep your head up.
yeah man it was that girl I was with....I knew she was trouble...why didn't you warn me mayne???
They offered to block the SIM card but I want to give it a day or so. After all if whoever has it plugs it in I may be able to get ahold of them. Or if they make a call from it then the number will show up on-line and then at least I have a lead....
Anyway I have international calls blocked so hopefully there won't be any huge charges. Like I say there haven't been any calls since I lost it, just the texts. Plus I'll keep an eye on it online in the meantime....
first time i lost mine, i called it, and the dudes from the pizza spot on bedford were like, "your dunk ass left your celly here -- come get it" bet. tipped those dudes $20...
second time i was late to work, got a car from myrtle car service, left it in there... called; nobody answered. i called cingular... "yo this is me, i lost my celly. what are the last four numbers i dialed?" "uh you called mexico, mexico, mexico, and brooklyn." "what's the number in brooklyn?" called, i got the drivers' wife... she's like "i fuckin' told him..." i made her tell him to meet me at the car service by white castle, or it was on. dude showed, gave me my phone... gave me a look like "all in the game, right?" word.
moral is: call yr service provider, either trace the number and be all mickey spillane like me, or go to the store, have them dead that sim, and issue you a new one with the same number.
still, in some instances--i have cancelled my cell just to be on the safe side.
you can get your old cell phone bills and see who you have dialed. some numbers should jump out at you based on area codes.
loosing contacts is a pain. people think i'm a dick for never calling, but i pretty much have to wait for people to call me.
i lost my phone a little over a month ago in a cab coming back from the bar at 3am. here's a little story:
i get home and realize it's gone, so right away i start calling cab companies. of course i was drunk and in no state to write down the cab number or even remember what company it was, so i tried them all. it was sat night and they were busy and not very helpful.
then i started calling my phone...every 2-3 minutes or so. some dude answers and is like "who is this?" i respond "the owner of this phone, who are you?" the dude starts laughing and tells his boys "the owner of this phone is calling" and they all seem to get a kick out of it. then dude hangs up AND turns the phone off! i kept trying back every 5 minutes, until 30 mins later the dude answers again..."hello?" "yo, i just want my phone back, i can give you a little cash too..." he's like "$100" (now mind you, I have a blue LG - this is not some baller $hit) and i'm like "dude you're crazy, take a look at the phone you're holding, that it's not worth $50...good luck finding someone to pay you $50 for it!" then he hangs up on me again. At this point I am about to give up and call Verizon and cancel cause I needed a new phone anyway, but then the dude calls back: "How much is this worth to you?" me - "I'll hook you up w/ $20" then he proceeds to be like "20 dollars hahaha" to his friends laughing in the backround, "we want p*ssy" he says "we have everything else we need." i'm like "can't help you there buddy." so he starts talking to his friends again and i notice they are speaking in GREEK! Immediately I bust out a "eisai ellinas? ande gamisou re malaka" which basically translates to: "you're greek? go f*ck yourself jagoff!" The dude was immediately shook. He was like " no way man, you're greek?" I'm like yeah dude, so does that mean i get phone back malaka? and he starts laughing and says "Meet me at Greektown Gyros" HAHA...mind you this is at 4am now. So I jumped in the ride, head down there and walk into the packed gyro spot and I'm just looking around...then this greek dude motions to me and is like "andreas?" i look at him kinda serious, then everyone starts laughing and the dude hands me my phone and apologizes for playing games to which i thank him and don't give him a dime (i wasn't too mad after all that, although not amused either).
HAHAHHA, yea hommie!
this is what I've been doing using the online bill.
That sucks. Funny thing: one time I lost my phone and
I had to go to
David Bowie's house to pick it up. His wife, Iman,
found it in a cab.
The stranger thing is that she is evidently the victim
of clitoral
mutilation. David Bowie has a notorious sexual
appetite. I was
curious as to how that whole thing worked between
them. But I settled
for my phone back in one piece so I kept my mouth
shut.
DON'T LET THE STOP YOU HOMIE, THERE'S STILL LAN LINES!