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Originally Posted by speeder

I'm pretty good at hanging onto my phone but I have a close friend who has lost more iPhones than seems possible. He's a little older than me, (he's 74), but it really isn't age related because he's been doing it forever and he's generally sharp as a tack. I think that it's more of a generational, hates cell phones thing that I've seen in a lot of boomers. I'm unfortunately addicted to my phone as a tool and it never leaves my side, generally speaking. I rarely misplace it

That's me. They are a great tool.

He lives in NY and 3 weeks ago, I could not reach him. It started going straight to VM on no rings, I was getting concerned because even if he lost his phone, he would have to quickly got another one and more than a week went by. He lives alone and I was this close to jumping on a plane because I figured that he must be in the hospital or worse when it finally occurred to me that I have his grown daughter's number in my phone. I knew that she lived in Europe at least part of the year but I gave her LA phone number a try.

I had been emailing him, I was really starting to worry. She answered right away and I told her that I was looking for her dad, she said, "he's right here!"

"Are you guys in LA or ?"

"No, we're in Germany."

To make a long story long, he lost his phone over there and could not get another one until he returned to the states plus he could not get into his email on a strange computer because of 2-factor authentication and he did not have his phone to recieve the texts!! Total nightmare but otherwise was having a pleasant visit with his daughter and grand daughter in Bavaria, where she lives since her mother died a couple of years ago. Her mom was German and a pretty famous model, total bomber.

Huge relief, if I had not had her phone number I was on a plane to NYC and would have been in a hotel knocking on the door of his empty apartment.

Glad it worked out. Sounds like a nightmare!