Phone Theft and Misplacement: My Personal Stories

Nowadays, it is quite difficult for you to find a place where people don't steal; even at church, people steal. I have actually lost count of the number of items that have been stolen from me at church, ranging from my smart watch to my earpods.

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Almost anywhere you find yourself, if you end up being careless with your possession, there is always someone waiting to pick it up, and so many times I ended up being a victim. So I have always been trying to put my stuff together and paying attention to it.

This is actually the first time I have been able to use a mobile phone for 2 years without having to sell it, having it get damaged or probably get stolen. I could recollect the year I got my phones and my parents was like, how would I be able to care for my phones that it would not get lost before a year. Yes it was that bad but now I am quite a little better.

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I have had several occasions where my phone was stolen from me, and one of them, which I will always remember, was when I just got admission to the polytechnic. I didn't resume early, and I happened to join the class when the lecturer was giving a test.

Even if I was new to the class, I had to participate in the test. The test wasn't that hard, but I just did the best I could do on it, and when it was time for submission, I had to leave my table to submit my paper to the front of the class, leaving my phone on the desk.

The moment that I left the desk to the moment I came back to where I was sitting previously, my phone had disappeared to my surprise. I was shocked at what had happened and did not know how to tell my parents that my phone had been stolen on my first day of class, but I didn't have any choice; I just had to because there was no way. They would try to reach me, and if they could not get to me, someone's mother would be restless.

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Another moment I had was my phone slipping out of my pocket inside a bus. I was able to track down the bus using Find My Device on Google, but when I found the bus and people were highlighting it, the phone was already turned off immediately. The mistake I made was that I didn't search for the people that got down from the bus at that moment, as the person who took my phone would be among those people.

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And yesterday, I would have had my phone stolen if not for the fact that the people in my apartment do not steal. When I got home from church yesterday, I had to remove my key from my bag. During that moment, I dropped my phone, forgot to take it back, and didn't remember that I had been without it for 2 hours or more.

For someone like me who is addicted to phones, how is that possible? When I got home, I was feeling very tired and sleepy. My thoughts all the way home were to get home and dive straight to my bed to sleep. This was the reason I didn't remember at all until I woke and noticed one of my phones was not with me.

I searched the whole house and did not see it, and at this moment, I was already scared that I had misplaced my phone. Immediately I went outside. I saw my phone right outside my door, where I had dropped it, and I knew that people would have been passing by.

I was really happy that my phone was not stolen, or didn't get misplaced as this time of my life, buying a new phone is not in my plans. There is not even any money for that at all.

So have you had moments when your phone was stolen or misplaced?