paging Burnt, or anyone else who knows about phones

What if your emergency was you'd swallowed your phone?

 

I've never had a phone break yet.

If I forget it, I'm hardly likely to have picked up my "spare", am I?
The very act of doing that would remind me of my main phone.

I avoid that by charging my phone, you see. I can give classes, if
you're having trouble.

I can't see the benefit.

 

I can't imagine swallowing my phone accidentally. If I'd done it
deliberately - well, I wouldn't do it if I wanted to make a call.

 

You could have put it in your mouth to demonstrate its compactness.

 

when I bought my new phone the other day, they tried to sell me all
that extended insurance crap - I pointed out to them that I'd owned
mobile phones for 15 years, and that I'd never lost or broken one.

 

No - I do that all the time without mishap.

 

Just about due one, then.

 

nah. In fact, I don't think I've ever broken or lost a portable
electronic gadget of any type.

 

I lost my phone on a train last year. Orange refused to pay out for
another one because I'd lost it, not had it stolen from me.

Cost me 70 quid, the cunts. Today I cancelled my account.

 

"Lost it? No, sorry, you misheard me, I said It's been stolen".

 

I tried that one. Orange dude's tone of voice changed and the convo
went along the lines of...

"But you just told me you lost it."
"Er, yes."
"This call's being recorded."
"Oh **** it, how much for a new one?"

 

But I never forget my phone.

I'm seldom far from a charger. I have one at home, I have one at
work. My phone lasts about 4 days with fairly heavy use. If I go
away somewhere for, say, a weekend, I take a charger.

I don't think I've ever broken down.


I still can't see the point.

 

You're just being awkward now. Well done.

 

That seems to be Ben's MO at the moment.

 

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Well... yes.

I can't think of why I'd want a spare pre-pay phone either, although as
a business where you had varying numbers of casual staff I suppose that
there could be a use for them as contact phones. Maybe in the executive
relief business?

Would Cane care to comment?

 

Jesus, I've broken shit loads of them.

 

This is a major cause of the reported phone thefts.

The old bill are focussing on this (they have a mobile phone crime unit)
and when checking out stories, IIRC something like >25% of reported
thefts were in fact losses or as a result of breakages.

 

Yes.

 

My parents do for a start, so you're wrong there.

 

But given your ease of access to a new phone (relative to me and
darsy), you may be less careful than us. And being a much more
frequent traveller, you probably lob into the overhead lockers with
more frequency and more gay abandon than we do. Etc.