Nowadays, I go low tech. No electronic leash for me, that's the way of the last millenium.

Dear Ace: Without Slog I never would have learned all this, now would I?

Dear Andrew: How YOU doin?

Dear Chop Suey: I realize I've already visited you a lot, but I'm on my way to dig through the couch cushions in your green room RIGHT NOW.

The great search of Chop Suey's green room proved futile. I slid my hand into parts of the couch one should never slide hands into. We removed the cushions. We moved the couch away from the wall. We went out and looked behind the bar again. We looked in the office. The people of Chop Suey have tried to help. God bless 'em. If I hadn't just bought this slide phone, oh, a month ago, to the tune of $150, it wouldn't sting so much to have to go back and get another one. Yet here I go.

The next time you're drunk and you have the urge to help a stranger out by taking charge of getting their phone back to them, do this instead: Realize you're drunk and take the phone to the bartender. You can even get another drink while you're at it.

but DJFITS, it made sense to involve the police if they could have helped track down the phone hoarding whore! not giving someone their phone back ASAP is just a rude and thoughtless thing to do!!!

At the VA, there's lots of people who can't use the cell phone - some of them can't dial, some are missing parts of their brains, you get the drift.

More people get their cars stolen, actually.

I feel your pain...but the phone is probably a loss. Turn it off, go to the cops, and (if you have it) use the insurance to get a new one. Then work on getting your friends' numbers again!

Although the poster here, V, smacks of a person on the web who just thought it would be funny to post something nasty. If I'd seen you in the Green Room and then read this post while still hungover and/or intoxicated, I might have done the same thing. Because I am nasty. And unlovable.

Even though they may not give a shit about a lost cell phone, you pay them for a reason. I'm no legal expert, but I think taking a lost phone, making calls on it, and then "losing" it constitutes liability, if not just really bad manners.

But, it may just be really bad manners. And sorry for your loss! It only amounted to a few weeks of inconvenience and a dispute with T-mobile, but when I drunkenly left my phone in a cab and the cab owner (successfully prosecuted) rang up over a thousand dollars in calls to Iran, it really messed things up for a few weeks. People who communicate with people in real time these days depend on their cell phones.

also, apparently it was my friend victoria who had it all along.

in short, an off day for mr fits.

Isn't this known as the "greeting"?