If you have teenagers who lose their mobiles, I have some possibly important information.

[Hassled]

DS1 is now 23 and a fine upstanding young man. In his teenage years he was, however, a bloody nightmare bit challenging. He lost a lot of mobiles, and because he's my PFB I replaced them.

DD met one of DS1's old school friends at Christmas. The friend told her that:

• Phone A was "lost" when DS1 rang a mate at a party, asked him if he wanted some beer and then deliberately put phone in a pint of beer.
• Phone B was "lost" when DS1 put it into the mechanism of a 6th form common room coffee machine to prove/disprove the machine's reaction to pressure. Apparently something swivelled.

I don't know about Phones C, D and E but if your DC says it fell out of their rucksack or they must have left it on the bus, it turns out there's a possibility they're lying.

HTH.

I have 3 DD's they are now 18.21 and 23 and only one of them has lost a mobile. But then they didn't have one until they were 16 so were probably beter at keeping things by then.

Actually the youngest is 19 now it was her birthday on Monday

My DS recently coughed to deliberately dropping his phone in a drain in the hope of an upgrade. At the time we had a very long story about avoiding a speeding car on the street when he was crossing and it falling out of his hands in a panic

LOL

My Dad has remarried and now has a stepson of 19 who I've not met. Sometimes Dad is telling me things about the "misfortune" this poor boy seems to have regularly come across and inside I'm thinking "Yeah right!" Your post reminds me a little of that.

Oh I love the speeding car story :o. That shows proper effort - I think I'm more pissed off by DS1's complete lack of effort on the imagination front than anything else. Or am I more pissed off that I fell for it?

Being the parent of a teenager, I mentally prepared myself for such an occasion and bought a cheap brick type mobile, that is currently on display on top of the kitchen cupboard in readiness for just such an event

You see I never dropped my mobile down the toilet in the pub, or racked too much on the bill, that I mysteriously lost it and claimed that someone must have found it, only for them to call my best friend an awful lot