My Cheap Phone

Over the years I have lost countless phones. Some of them were stolen and the rest I just misplaced. You see, I’m the forgetful kind so I’d place them somewhere which was usually in a public place and then forget them there. All these phones had one thing in common, they were expensive, and the longest period of time that I managed to keep them was 6 weeks. One day after losing an especially pricey phone I decided to buy an inexpensive one. The reasoning behind this was that should I lose it at least I wouldn’t feel the pinch. To my surprise I kept that phone for more than a year. I eventually got bored with it and gave it away. Believing that my jinx of losing phones was over I bought an expensive phone again. I lost it two weeks later. Predictably I purchased a cheap one and which I still have 6 months later.

© james wamathai 2009