{"id":1757399,"date":"2022-11-30T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757399"},"modified":"2022-11-30T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T21:47:54","slug":"i-lost-my-phone-for-24-hours-heres-what-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-lost-my-phone-for-24-hours-heres-what-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"I Lost My Phone For 24 Hours. Here\u2019s What I Learned.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-lost-my-phone-for-24-hours-heres-what-i-learned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757399&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I\u2019m old enough to remember what a dial tone sounds like \u2014 and a busy signal. I\u2019m so old, I remember picking up the phone every hour for five hours to tell my sister, \u201cHey, I need the phone!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right \u2014 every house had one phone, one phone line.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so old I remember my childhood friends\u2019 telephone numbers \u2014 Tony Salvatore was 657-8566, Jon Hulbert was 654-4503, Joel Adler was 657-5005, and my own phone number was 652-7693. Those have been in my head now for nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>But when I lost my phone over the weekend \u2014 I figured I left it in the men\u2019s grill at the golf club after our round \u2014 I had to call my friends. But how?!<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what my friends\u2019 phone numbers are, even though I call them all the time. Google was a nightmare; endless links came up when I searched their names, most wanting me to pay for the privilege of finding their numbers. And you\u2019d be shocked to find out how many people have the same name as all of your friends.<\/p>\n<p>But I tried several numbers anyway \u2014 all of them were the wrong people. The last guy I talked to said he didn\u2019t know who I was, joked that he didn\u2019t know where my phone was, but in a kind gesture, said he hoped I\u2019d find it soon.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I tore my car apart, nothing. And I scoured the house, taking every cushion off the couch. Then I headed to the golf club. They didn\u2019t have it, with the manager saying no phone was turned in. The pro shops guys likewise said no phone was left in a cart.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I began to get suspicious. My phone is, after all, worth $1,000, and with eBay, anyone who found it could make a small fortune selling it. Someone must have it, it didn\u2019t just disappear. Someone stole it!<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I was able to find the phone number of one golf buddy and he sent out a group text. Still nothing. No one saw it, no one had it.<\/p>\n<p>All that by mid-morning. So, I just had no phone. I checked prices to buy a new one ($1,100), but decided to give it some time, maybe my phone would miraculously turn up.<\/p>\n<p>Thus my phoneless life began. I decided to run some errands and, with any luck, get in a quick nine holes. Off to the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>But once there, I went to check my \u201cnotes\u201d for my running grocery list. No phone. No list. Then I needed to ask my wife if we needed a few things. Couldn\u2019t. No phone. And then I couldn\u2019t find an item, I reached for my phone to check the app for its location. No phone.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s when one wonderful thing about phoneless life happened. I asked a random person if she happened to know where my item was. She told me what aisle to try. I said thanks, then complimented her shirt \u2014 she was wearing a Team Iran shirt, and this was before the big U.S.-Iran match in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said she was born in Iran but moved to America as a young girl. She said she still loves Iran, but is supporting protesters rallying nationwide after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was allegedly beaten in police custody for failing to properly wear a hijab. And she said that she\u2019ll be happy with whoever wins the game.<\/p>\n<p>I would\u2019ve never had that conversation if I\u2019d had my phone. Head down, I would\u2019ve just looked up the app \u2014 and likely wouldn\u2019t have even seen her.<\/p>\n<p>Errands done, I hit the golf course. But instead of turning music on via my phone, as usual, I just played in silence \u2014 well, not silence because wildlife everywhere was making a cacophonous racket. But that, I realized later, gave me a wonderful sense of ease.<\/p>\n<p>And, unlike every other round, I didn\u2019t reach for my phone between shots to see if someone had emailed or texted. Please, I\u2019m not that important and nothing\u2019s really that urgent, is it?<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we gathered to watch a movie. But I couldn\u2019t just pick up my phone at a boring part to flip through, so I watched every second intently. I realized then, too, how often I split my attention \u2014 for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>In one-last ditch effort, I stripped the couch again and my wife spotted the phone, shoved way down. I had my phone back!<\/p>\n<p>But that night, I didn\u2019t take it upstairs to bed. I didn\u2019t scroll it for an hour before going to sleep. And when I woke up, it wasn\u2019t there to pick up right away to read email and texts.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s when I realized that little by little, my phone had gotten the best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m old enough to remember what a dial tone sounds like \u2014 and a busy signal. I\u2019m so old, I remember picking up the phone every hour for five hours to tell my sister, \u201cHey, I need the phone!\u201d That\u2019s right \u2014 every house had one phone, one phone line. I\u2019m so old I remember &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1757402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}