waah

[baratron]

There are few things in modern life quite as stressful as getting onto a crowded bus, having a fellow passenger tell you your bag is wide open, and finding your mobile phone is missing. Aargh!

To cut a long story short, it was fortunately at home on the floor & kicked under a table, where it was doing a good impression of a piece of carpet. And it appears nothing actually got stolen from my bag despite either a) me having walked down the road with it open for 10+ minutes or b) someone in the bus crowd having opened it as a prelude to stealing from it. But I have nonetheless endured several hours of stress and worry in the time between noticing my phone was missing and getting home to check.

The worst part was that I rang Orange to report the phone as "maybe stolen, don't know yet" and I wanted them to look to see if it had been used between 4 and 7pm today, but apparently it takes a week for the call log to get to Customer Services. So I had to get it temporarily blacklisted just in case, which means that my phone now won't work until it receives the SIM update un-blacklisting it again. Yeah, I could've just left it... but I didn't really want some random stranger making 101 international phonecalls on my credit :/

So I'm now trying to calm down and relax which is difficult with a churny churny stomach and dizzy stress headache, and I can't ring anyone for a chat because my phone doesn't work again yet. Waah.

Comments

[elfgeek.livejournal.com]

You are not alone - I've walked down Oxford St with my rucksack totally unzipped and similar things. I also once panic-cancelled a credit card while on holiday which turned out to have been misplaced and then it took them 2 weeks to send me a new one to my holiday address (by which time I was no longer in the country).

[inkyann.livejournal.com]

Better to have cancelled it than had a pre-Christmas bill of £££££. Can you check your LJ email and let me know about Xmas, btw?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I replied on Dec 13th. Check your spam filter - I sent it from my "real" address, not the livejournal one :)

I've been waiting to hear back from you about dark vs milk chocolate...

[inkyann.livejournal.com]

Dark, every time. No contest :) Ta muchly!