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Lost Phone

Lost Phone

Date: Feb 29 2008

Themes: Friend, Tech

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Mobile phones and other portable devices make our lives easier. Remember when you used to have to wait at home if you were expecting a call?

But sometimes we depend too much on our gadgets. For instance, where do you store your phone numbers? Do you have a little book where you write them down? Most people keep phone numbers stored in their mobile phone. It’s handy because you can call someone without looking at a piece of paper or entering all the numbers.

But it’s not so handy if you lose your phone. Then, even when you get a new phone, you don’t have any numbers! So you have to go around and ask all your friends for their phone numbers again. Listen to Jason do just that.

Dialog

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Jason

Jason

Marni

Marni

Jason:  Wait, before I forget, can I get your number…again?

Marni:  Yeah, what…I mean, didn’t I just give it to you?

Jason:  I mean, I’ve had it but I lost my phone and I had to get a new phone…

Marni:  You lost your phone again?

Jason:  Yeah, yeah.

Marni:  Oh my God.

Jason:  Yeah, but the worst part about it is I have phone insurance so I get a new phone for pretty cheap, but I have to get all the phone numbers again from everyone I know and, I don’t know, it’s kind of interesting.

Marni:  We don’t commit telephone numbers to memory anymore. I used to have a file of numbers…

Jason:  Totally. I still have my first girlfriend’s phone number memorized from like 9th grade, but I had get all new phone numbers for everyone I call nowadays. It’s an interesting social experiment to not have any numbers and just see who calls me.

Marni:  There you go. Those are your true friends.

Jason:  It makes me seem like a real loner, like a cowboy who just doesn’t need anyone because I’m not reaching out.

Marni:  OK. Sure. I hear ya. Well, um, yeah, I’ll give you my number and hopefully you won’t lose this one.

Jason:  Yeah, and you should back up your numbers because that’s what I’m doing now.

Marni:  Oh, good idea. Yeah, see, never done that.

 

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Discussion

Marni is a little confused when Jason asks her for her phone number because she thought he already had it. But it turns out Jason lost his phone, and it doesn’t sound like it’s the first time this has happened.

In fact, Jason looses his phone so often that he got insurance on it this time so it wouldn’t cost him very much to get a new phone. The only problem is that his new phone doesn’t have any phone numbers in it! So he has to start from scratch collecting all of his friends’ phone numbers again.

Jason says it’s kind of interesting to see who calls you when you don’t have anyone’s number. He hopes that not calling anyone makes him seem cool and that everyone will assume he’s just too busy to call. But it can get kind of lonely when you can’t call your friends. If you have Jason’s number, give him call so that he’ll have your number again!
Image: The location of Jason’s old phone.

 

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brownstone

brownstone

Saudi Arabia

hi:)

how r ya?(i mean the one readin it now Wink)..any way..

actually i lost my phone 2 years ago..to be more precise, it was stolen..but it came as shock when i discovered the ones who r really faithfull to me.. i mean idont expect  that they still remember me..what made me sad that my best friend didnt missed me at all:( coz i used to call her from time to time..& i agree on that..if u wana know who is ur real friend..just work hard to lose ur phone..

06:10 PM Mar 02 2008 |

Abbie Wilson

Egypt

Well i guess the worst thing that can happen to one of us nowadays is losin his cell-phone i mean likemostly our live depends on it:D  

05:44 PM Mar 02 2008 |

junejasmine

China

it's really interesting when i'm ready to say that i've never lost one cellphone, i start to worry about losing the one i'm using now.

but numbers, really a headache cuz i've never commit them to memory. 

11:58 AM Mar 02 2008 |

stormyunfeng

China

  In China,we use SIM card which contains your phone number and all your friends phone numbers that you memoryed in it ,the cash you toped up and some of your personal information in the cellphone,when you buy it,you must use your ID card to be checked.So when you lost your cellphone you also lost your SIM card in it,but thats the point,you can use your ID card to get a new SIM card that contains all the information even your cash in the lost card and also the lost card will be defeasanced.So you do not have to be worried,but it is important that you must go to the Mobile Service Place to buy a new card to defeasance the lost one as soon as you find it was lost cause there's your cash in it !

  But people should be careful about personal things.Be more careful obout the thieves!

10:58 AM Mar 02 2008 |

SpeciaL-8

SpeciaL-8

Saudi Arabia

i have a lot of numbers in my phone but i memorise only the most important persons in my life…..

10:30 AM Mar 02 2008 |

frozen.fire

Yemen

ok be more care full

ok

and do not do it ag

ok

 

09:18 AM Mar 02 2008 |

frozen.fire

Yemen

just be more care full ok

bye i am moneer

  •                                           frozen

09:17 AM Mar 02 2008 |

frozen.fire

Yemen

as i see when i loss my phon it is so hard to finde all fo my friends and rewrite all the numbers so we must be more care full when we go anywhere

bye 

and  yes i am with you and good for you  you are so good and care full

bye moneer >>>>>>>>>>>frozen

09:15 AM Mar 02 2008 |

Ernie

Ernie

Germany

I've never lost my phone. Nevertheless if you kept them on your phone without having a back up somewhere it would be very incredible. Therefore I synchronize all my phone numbers with my computer regularly.

08:17 AM Mar 02 2008 |

zxj19881227

China

anything can happen,so we 'd better keep a copy of the phone numbers.because no one would like to lose contact with their good friends.

08:17 AM Mar 02 2008 |

khaledlover

Saudi Arabia

for me i think that mobile phone is not important for me and many people for example students.

 

best regard

03:57 AM Mar 02 2008 |

hominy

China

i lost my mobile several months ago,so i have same feeling.

03:28 AM Mar 02 2008 |

小兵瑞瑞

小兵瑞瑞

Christmas Island

too years later?How do u know?

01:51 AM Mar 02 2008 |

zmani

zmani

Italy

Evry one don,t care his phone it will lost like jason .and don,t forgit copy numbere our friend .

09:09 PM Mar 01 2008 |

zmani

zmani

Italy

Evry one don,t care his phone it will lost like jason .and don,t forgit copy numbere our friend .

09:09 PM Mar 01 2008 |

shinasia

shinasia

Oman

i have not tried to lose my phone until now .

 

but i stay without phone for one week coz my phone doesnot work , it was crazy week for me ,

i missed my phone so much , and i cant imagine my life without phone .

 and i am very carefull about my phone.

Laughing 

08:42 PM Mar 01 2008 |

nad1a

nad1a

Greece

yeah….back up ….

that's definitely something I should remember.  I often lose my cell phone and i have this bad habit of keeping not just phone numbers but all kind of important data and stuff in it. not to mention that, cell phones and computers have made me have a 'lazy' memory. just the other day, I'd forgotten my cell in a taxi and  had to take my own number from my sister so I call the driver and ask him to give it back to me…luckily, he happened to be a nice guy and I got my phone back :-)

07:51 PM Mar 01 2008 |

bethaniart

bethaniartSuper Member!

Brazil

I have never lost a mobile phone, but I have already had my phone stolen. I also had to start from scratch collecting all my friends` phone numbers again.

07:28 PM Mar 01 2008 |

Jenny58

Jenny58

Ukraine

i think it is mabey an interesting experiment to have not number and just see who calls you. it was half an year later,in the everning about 7 pm.my daughter was asleep, my husband and i was busy at own business, suddently. electricity stopped working, we could not do anything as usually, i remember very well now, at that moment i felt free totally, so my husbend and i lied down quietly side by side quietly and conversed from heart to heart….. it is one of my most happy moments in my life.

07:21 PM Mar 01 2008 |

mervathoha

Egypt

phone is very important so i am be carefulabout it andiam writing all numbers on my computer to be ready once i lost it

06:22 PM Mar 01 2008 |

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