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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.

 

Comments

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karry zhang

China

hope everyone good luck,never ever lose your phone.

01:14 AM Mar 01 2008 |

Aleta

Aleta

Serbia and Montenegro

Nothing of note or new…

12:36 AM Mar 01 2008 |

lingpingbaby

China

luckily,i never loose my phone. but i have some friends lost their phones,it is nasty.i think everyone would like to take care their phones than loose   phones,but the accidents always happen unexpectedly.in most cases,we do not care the phone but the useful information in it, the numbers included.it will make us lots of time to get them back.so, the better way is that we back up the information in another place ,may be in computer.

11:33 PM Feb 29 2008 |

saudigirl

saudigirl

Saudi Arabia

i have a note of all the important numbers..but i lost it more than one time..lol:))))

 

very good lesson..

10:52 PM Feb 29 2008 |

sam phy

Cambodia

how about savin in your email inbox. Internet is served everywhere around the world. It's would help effectively whenever you are in the immediate situation. 

09:29 PM Feb 29 2008 |

sam phy

Cambodia

how about savin in your email inbox. Internet is served everywhere around the world. It's would help effectively whenever you are in the immediate situation. 

09:17 PM Feb 29 2008 |

HuanWei

HuanWei

China

i am sorry to hear that!

08:44 PM Feb 29 2008 |

sam phy

Cambodia

Hi, everybody! This's my first time to talk to all of you under the topic of losing phone. Based on my point of view,  I think taking a good care of your belongings is very important start with a simple thing like your cellphone, it would ensure that you can keep the first and secend most important things in your life. I think all of your idea is useful and interesting.I found taking note as well as backing up is useful. Most of the person could easily lose their phone, so, even a book, I wonder they can keep it for the safety or not? And about the backing up which can be used by many ways. So, how all of you think, if we save it in our domain such as your email inbox. Here, I want to reconfirm that you can go more freely without heavy thing in hand. Intenet is served in everywhere around the world.Will it sound easy?

08:16 PM Feb 29 2008 |

fadimore

Iraq

my phone fall in the water so it dammiged , i lose all my friends number, i bought another one , without any number . it is realy problem

07:59 PM Feb 29 2008 |

SÉRGIO

SÉRGIO

Brazil

Don’t lose your phone! it can contain confidential numbers and some pic too. It can be a big trouble to you guy!

07:46 PM Feb 29 2008 |

SÉRGIO

SÉRGIO

Brazil

it's bad to lose the cell phone, you can get without your so important lover phone's numbers.

07:35 PM Feb 29 2008 |

mandark

mandark

Cuba

ohhh Lost our phone it´s painful,´couse we lost all numbers of our friends!!!!

05:58 PM Feb 29 2008 |

mandark

mandark

Cuba

ohhh Lost our phone it´s painful,´couse we lost all numbers of our friends!!!!

05:55 PM Feb 29 2008 |

habi175

habi175

Viet Nam

I lost my phone 3 times:(( However I didnt have to spend much time on asking my friends's phone numbers because I write most of them down on a notebook:)

05:07 PM Feb 29 2008 |

habi175

habi175

Viet Nam

I lost hand phone 3 times.:(( However,I didnt have to spend much time on asking my friends phone number because I write it down on a notebook.:)

04:57 PM Feb 29 2008 |

dina47

Cape Verde

I think that lost my phone it's should be a worst thing. Why call to my friends and family? To prevent this unhappy thing I memorize my umbers on sheet of paper

04:40 PM Feb 29 2008 |

Merry KHO

Merry KHO

Indonesia

Fortunately, i have never lost my hp.. It is very pity if we got lost it because it is very important in our life. IT has became something essential in our life.. I think, we already become dependent to gadgets. Can't throw away this bad habits. 

I think it is useful advice for us to back up our phone numbers because it can happen to anybody in whenever and wherever they are. Criminal grows quickly year by year. So… Keep and always save things carefully…

have a nice daY:) 

04:02 PM Feb 29 2008 |

HuangYe

HuangYe

United Kingdom

Seems like i seldom lost my cellphone,lucky dog!isn't?

03:19 PM Feb 29 2008 |

li_xin

li_xin

Malaysia

we are too depending on new technology …....by the way it is better to have a copy

03:09 PM Feb 29 2008 |

yanyan lau

China

I got a friend who lost his phone and lost the contact information of  the girl who just met with. so everyday he just waitied for the calling and actually the girl waited the calling from him too. No worries, the comedy ending, they meet again caz fate, cool!

03:07 PM Feb 29 2008 |

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