Love them, hate them, you got to have a cell phone theses days.
They can do so many wounderful things, but those little buggers just LOVE to get lost! @_@

This is my secound phone I've lost already. Sad, isn't it? The first one was found after it took a... "Bath"... Yeah... "Bath". So I got this new nice one, that is now lost some where in my house. >_> ... <_< ... I want it back.
But I, stupidly, turned it off before I put it down some where before I lost it. @_@

So, as I try to find where it is, I wanted to know if any of you DDer's have ever lost your cell phone? And if you have, what was the situation? And did you find it?

... I really need to find my phone. @_@ *Goes back to look for it.*

I've only had a cell phone for two years. I was always resistant to getting one because I didn't like the idea of getting calls while driving since I spend a great deal of time on the road.

So far if my memory serves I'm currently on at least number four.

The first went through the washing machine. The second saved my femoral artery ( The big one in your leg. ) from being severed by a chain saw at my first job. The third accidentally became part of a recycled bike path when someone mistook it for the previous one ( How they managed that escapes me since the previous one was in several pieces. ) and gave it to the recycling drive. And now I'm on my fourth, which every day makes me want to chuck it into the river downtown because it doesn't get a signal outside of a 30 mile radius. So you could say I'm about to lose my fourth in two years.

I think I heard your cellphone ringing inside a Mayan ruin. You could go after it despite all the creepy vines inside...

I've never lost my cellphone... except that one time when I forgot to take it out of my pants pocket BEFORE the washing machine went into its wash cycle.

I don't have a cellphone because no one calls me.

I did break my sister's once though.

I tend to have bad luck with phones.

Always end up ruining them somehow.

My old phones are still ok. Every now and again I feel like a need a new one, so I get it. I don't do that on a whim though, I've been using mobile phones for a long time and just get a new one when I think the current one is getting on a bit.

I lost my cell phone once for several days. It turned out that I had put it in the refrigerator. To this day, I have NO IDEA when/why I did that.

ever heard the phrase "that boy would lose his head if it weren't attached to his shoulders"


yeah. that's me.

i once walked into my apartment, set my keys down, went to the bathroom, went to leave, and not only had i lost my keys, but my cellphone and wallet as well. i had only been home a total of three minutes.

I recently had a car accident. The world has changed a bit, and I can't just knock on someone's door and ask to use the phone, let alone ask the guy that hit me for his phone. I actually would have had to drive my damaged car back to my house to call the cops to report the accident. As it turned out, the guy that hit me (actually his dad) was pretty stand up and paid for everything out of pocket. I was lucky, though, and I knew it.

Sooo, I bought a cell phone out of necessity. Cheapest I could find, Tracphone with 400 minutes for a year all for about a hundred bucks. I never use it, but I always have it on me for real emergencies.

But I hate cell phones. I really, really do. I think they are one of the causes for the decline of civilized behavior. Be it the shallow "fashionable" images they portray, poor grammar, anonymous chat rudeness, or even the inability for individuals to focus on or enjoy the things or company in front of them.

I only use mine for emergencies :\

The little thing is collecting dust in the top drawer of this very computer desk with my Mom's.

...Is it?

i dont have a home phone. and i have a job, where (god forbid) i need to be contacted immediatly. so i have a cellphone.

This is one of the reasons I don't bother getting one.

It's actually the reason I don't bother with a lot of things.

Ha! Well, I've also got one for work. As well as the one in replaced.
Bloody Nokia. I've never liked Nokias. Because that's for work I use it al lot, for work. But I don't use my own one much at all. It's just good for emergencies, coordinating meeting times, that sort of thing. I don't use it as a social tool- unless it's for figuring out where to meet up.

I share those sentiments. I feel that cellphones aren't worth the cost. And I'm fine with just home phone (or land lines, as we referred to them when I was working for a cellphone company (Yes, laugh at the irony)). I hardly ever get calls. I carry three dollars in quarters in my wallet in case I need to use a pay phone (but so far I haven't).

They're a bad addiction for some people. I hate it when people won't get off their cellphone to order (drinks/etc) and I have to talk to them while they're carrying on another conversation. Feel like I ought to just ignore them until they take the phone from their ear...

Anyone think LG is a POS? That was my experience from customers, but it might've just been the models we had at the time.

I think so too, but it isn't like I can do anything about anyone else's cell phone. So I just ignore poor phone-based behavior when I can. However there are movie showing times I avoid, etc....

Then again I am the type of person who will hang up if someone gets a second call while they are on the line with me, and then answers it and makes me wait. I was on the phone talking to them already, it's the person calling in who should have to wait to be talked to.

I also just don't answer my cell phone a lot of the time, even if it's sitting right next to me. I'll put it on silent and check it a couple times a day. I HATE the attitude that because *I* have a cell phone, I should be more accessible to the people calling me. No. My cell phone is MY convenience, not yours. People have been annoyed because they knew I was at home working and didn't answer their calls until an hour or so later- well, I was working. I wouldn't have answered if I'd been in an office, either. I was busy.

People also say that they've called and can't get ahold of me. Well, I saw some random phone number coming in, but no one left a message- how am I supposed to know who was calling and why? They didn't leave a message, so I assumed it wasn't important. I'm not going to just go calling back every number that calls me. If they wanted me to care that someone had called, they should have left a message.

Not to break the flow, but I found my cell phone! WWOOOOTTT!!! Took me a couple days, but I found it! ^_^

It was between the cushions in one of our chairs. @_@ I swear I put it on the counter... How did it get there?

I <3 this philosophy, and I am totally using it next time someone complains that I didn't answer their call.

Haha, well, your mileage may vary It works for me because nothing's ever really an emergency in my job. It's usually just someone calling to ask a question or set up a meeting or something and they don't mind leaving a message. Most people are fine with that kind of thing. Only a few people have complained that I'm 'not accessible' because I don't answer my cell phone every time they call (and they in turn don't leave messages- must not have been important, I think). My cell phone IS my work phone and I treat it that way, if I'm in the middle of something, I won't answer it.

The only reason I keep mine is because it's my business phone. People use it to contact me for paying work. But I set strict office hours from 9 am to 4 pm, and I won't answer it outside of those hours if I know it's a business call. I also refuse to answer it if I am at my job or currently engaged in something with another person. I'll call back when I'm done spending time with my client or friend. I also, will not touch the phone if I am on the road and can't pull over. I do a lot of driving for work and everyday activities, and I see more accidents because of poor phone use than anything else.

More often than not though, friends don't call me, they use facebook or email to contact me ahead of time since they know I pretty much have to schedule time to hang out and do things. Usually if my phone is used for non-work related calls, I'm calling the other person. I think the lack of real human interaction rather than cell phones alone is the true cause of civilization declining in moral codes. Everything and everyone is much more distant from each other's lives and another person's action and life become less important. All the technology has created a bit of a paradox, while we can now be closer than ever to someone across the globe, we seem to get farther away from our own local communities.

You can actually find those things any more? Ever since cell phones became popular a couple years ago, I have yet to find an actual working phone booth. I've actually met some younger kids who didn't know we ever had such a thing as a pay phone.

You must also hate modern magazines, TV, and the internet.

EDIT: Oh and movies, and modern books. Also what vehicle you drive, believe it or not, can affect how you portray yourself. Big fancy car can = big fancy jackass.

I drive a train!


...Well I ride in one...
Once every morning and afternoon. -_-
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I dunno about being negative about all of mobile phons really. I've always hated answering phones, and having to call people, no matter WHAT kind of phone it is, and SMS is so very, very irritating. But I have to do those things for work.

People who have their phone as an extension of themselves are a little sad. My dad's like that. It's his lifeline. For me my phone is just a very, very useful piece of gear that I take with me when I leave the house. It's like my wallet, keys, or sunglasses. If I get lost, I can ring someone who can find out where I am for me. If I'm late for a meeting or not sure where to meet someone, or late for work, I can SMS or call them. If the landline goes dead, I've still got a phone. If I'm pissed drunk at 3am out on the town, I can call a taxi or a friend.

-It's not a thing I need to keep me connected to other people, just a device that comes in handy, especially when I'm out and about

I've never lost a phone... probably because I know I can't actually afford to buy a new one. Funny, cuz I'm always loosing everything else.