Accidental damage to "perfect" phones (...or, "When to commit suicide?")

[Dewdrop]

I haven't dropped or broken anything yet (knock on wood), but I lost a phone part. Its been driving me NUTS trying to find it. I've looked and looked.

I know it didn't go down the drain, I keep stainless steel sink drain screens on both sides of the utility room sink where dirty phones are cleaned.

Ever happened to any of you? "losing a phone part"

Debbie

[JorgeAmely]

I see some nuts on the left part of the picture. The flash button could still be attached to the rest in the innards of this phone. Have you checked?

[Sargeguy]

Parts???  I lose entire phones!

[Dewdrop]

Here's the inside parts. NO flash button! Now I know what the part is called. Thanks

Debbie

[mr_a500]

I'm impressed with the grief-stricken cartoon characters you added to each picture.

[Dewdrop]

Showing my true feelings....

I'll add a big happy cartoon character if I ever find that little "sucker".

Debbie

[Kenny C]

I ruined a #5 dial. I was oiling the dial when the dial cam fell out of my hand, I rolled my chair back to pick it up and"CRACK" that was it.

[Dave F]

My wife says I'm like a bull in a china shop.  There's almost nothing that I can't damage or ruin without really trying too hard.  Luckily, my clumsiness has not yet extended its reach into my phone collection, and all your stories have given me a new reason to tread softly.  (I can just picture my 1234G Payphone falling off the wall and onto a concrete floor!!)

[Kenny C]

Thats the only major thing that happened to me

[Dennis Markham]

Check inside the vacuum bag (if you vacuum that area).  I've been known to have to sift through the vacuum dirt to find a tiny screw that I dropped.

Patience is something I have tried to learn over the years.  Just this morning as I was dismantling a phone that has probably not been touched in 50 years.....I said to myself....now don't break it Dennis, be careful....don't force anything.....

It happens to all of us eventually.

[Dewdrop]

Speaking of vacuum cleaners. My mother recently knocked out a 1/4 ct. round diamond out of her ring. My sister and her sifted through her Rainbow vacuum cleaner (water and dirt). No such luck.  There's no telling where she lost it. She's already had it replaced.

Back to the missing flash button, I guess I'll move the washer and dryer out and looked under there. These white parts have been outside before soaking in the sun (bleach and water) a few months back. I soak them in a clear container (salad comes in). We only have birds, squirrels, and golfers that come into our yard. Don't think they lifted it. Golfers only come looking for their LOST golf balls. Sometimes we put our egg shells out in the yard (birds will eat them) and we've seen the golfers come up to them, look down, then step on them. Ha, Ha.


Debbie

[Dennis Markham]

That's funny, Debbie.  Those little soap golf balls would be fun to plant out there too. 

Your flash button will be in the last place you look. 

[Dave F]

Your flash button will be in the last place you look. 

I've noticed that whenever I find something which had been lost, it's ALWAYS in the last place that I look!  How strange is that?!

[Adam]

Have you ever tried looking in the last place first?

[KeithB]

The lost items are smarter than that.