Avril went out to have her hair done, came back in, and asked me to ring her phone as she couldn't find it, or remember taking it out of her pocket as she came in - silence, no phone to be heard. She keeps several debit/credit cards with the phone, so even more of a panic. She had used the card, in the hairdressers and Coop, a 10-minute walk away, and it was bouncing down.
Whilst she retraced her steps, I kept on ringing the phone, on the chance someone might pick it up. I was just about to report one of my cards, she uses for shopping, lost, when she answered the phone. She'd spotted it left on a bin, at the end of the street, but only because the ringing caught her attention. Phew!!!
She later admitted she rather stupidly puts it in a side pocket, of a sort of jerkin she often wears, which leaves it partially poking out, just ready to fall out in a moment of carelessness. My phone is only carried on it's own, in a zipped up pocket, my cards are kept separately in my wallet, in another zipped pocket. I'm maybe obsessive, but I check they are where they are supposed to be, on the way out of every shop. At home, I do often lose them, but not really that much of a problem.
