Finding Momentum

So I’m not quite sure what hap­pened, but some­time between last night and this morn­ing, I lost all the con­tacts in my cell phone. Was it some fluke? A stray cos­mic ray col­lided with a mem­ory cell? Did some­body repro­gram my phone out of spite? All we can do is speculate.

So I prob­a­bly don’t have your num­ber any­more (it’s noth­ing per­sonal). And how about the next time you call me, you save me the awk­ward­ness of pre­tend­ing to rec­og­nize you by telling me who you are? Thanksss.

I’m curi­ous

What would you do in this sit­u­a­tion? Would you come up with some hare­brained scheme to trick your friends into send­ing you their phone num­bers? Would you rely on your keen hear­ing and amaz­ing sense of intu­ition to guess the caller’s iden­tity? Would you just never answer your phone… ever? Maybe you’d pro­fusely apol­o­gize with­out ever say­ing a word? Or would you just Google your friends (in vain), hop­ing some­body, some­where has mined their mobile phone numbers?