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[mistysakura]

Case study of Ada's day without a mobile phone: Ada accidentally leaves her bag on the bus on the way to a picnic with friends. Panics. Walks to park, borrows a stranger's mobile phone to find out where friends are. Friend arrives, can't lend me her phone, but gives me $5. Ada walks to bus stop to find phone number of bus company, then goes off to find public phone to call bus company. It's Sunday, so no one's staffing the phones. Ada hops onto bus and spends the last of her money buying a ticket while getting the bus depot's direct number off the bus driver, then borrows more strangers' phones for that purpose. the guy at the bus depot asks for my contact number and I go "uh... I don't have one any more." Squee!

Although I barely actually use my phone, hehe. I know people who still don't have mobile phones. *shrug*

[PancaKe]

Oh goodness Ada, what happens next? Did you get your phone back?

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Well in Finland, there's more than one mobile phone per citizen. And still I know people without one. So some people actually have two or they might have taken the old one to a flea market or simply thrown it away, I don't know what the research is based on. Anyway, Finland has a population of about 5,300,000, and according to Wikipedia, it's on the 111th place. Long distances in less-populated areas, Nokia being a company originated in Finland, and perhaps people's stereotypical quietness when 'talking' face to face, partly explain the frequency.