Posted: Fri 29 Jun, 2007 20.13
I had my contract phone stolen twice last year and had to try to get back the numbers just by looking at the bill and working out who normally rang me and when.Gavin Scott wrote:I accidentally duplicated my entire contacts list on my phone when I was trying to make a backup, now no one's name comes up unless I delete the second entry of their number. There's a couple of hundred in there and it will take some time to sort.
If you can squeeze that into 147 characters then you have your get-out-of-jail card and know it is someone's true story.
Tell me this - what is one to do when a caller's forename, surname and possibly cryptic descriptor flash on my handset and I still haven't a clue who it is?
Trust me - the small talk is excruciating.
As for the rest, I waited for them to text/ring me and then replied telling the truth. I quite massively reduced my phone book list, but now after a year I think everyone is on there that I normally speak to (some of the older ones I managed to find on an old handset when I was clearing out my bedside cupboard.)
Oddly, I haven't ever had your mobile number Mr Scott!
