Catching up...

One way or the other, the events of the past two weeks have conspired against me posting my weekly update. It is kind of several people to contact me to see if all is well. It is thanks!

Last Sunday I lost my mobile phone. This may not seem like a huge deal but for me there are only two pieces of equipment that are critical to me: the phone and the laptop. I am also extremely careful not to lose things, almost to the point of paranoia. What I had not factored in was the effects that riding the spinning tea cups at a fun fair would have. The phone spun out of my pocket.

As luck would have it, my phone was found by a very honest young man, who handed it to his (equally honest) father. They called the number in my phone called “home” and left a message. More than this they contacted some of my last dialled numbers and eventually worked out (probably from the number and content of text messages) my wife’s number and called her. The result was a late evening trip to Heathrow to pick up the phone but in comparison to having lost it altogether, that is low level hassle.

I was struck by two things. First of all that I should delete text messages more often in case I lose my phone. Secondly, I was really reassured by the efforts made to reunite me and my phone. The people who found it said they had lost a phone once, remembered the hassle it caused and would have hated to have that happen to someone else.

Amongst the continual stories of negativity around mobile – from the rise in mobile related crime to accidents caused by driver using phones in cars – it is reassuring to know that people are prepared to go to such lengths to help someone get their phone back.