The day after my landline phone service came back on, my cell phone service lost a vital component... the phone.

With my dad down here and a suddenly bad alternator in my car (how's that for timing?), we went out to get one.   Sears, auto parts store, chinese restaurant.   I know I had it in Sears, but I noticed my holster was empty when we got home.   I tried calling it but the phone was off!   I never turned it back on after leaving the station the night before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   In two days it hasn't been found at any of those three stores, or in the truck, or outside fallen on the parking lot, or in the apartment.

OK great, so we met all four requirements for me to lose this phone:

• The phone had to be turned off, I forget to turn it on about a third of the time after leaving the station or church.

• The holster had to let the phone slip out, which rarely happens and only when I brush against something (this usually prompts me to make sure I'm still wearing the phone anyway)

• It had to fall on grass and/or I had to *NOT* hear it crashing onto the floor/asphalt below.

• It had to fall in a place where no one would find it within 36 hours (like along a nature trail, except OOPS... I was only in populated areas!)