My son came unplugged.

[sistawendy]

M'boy lost his phone. Again. From the Dept. of Irony: it was powered up - something you can never take for granted with my son's phone - when I dialed it, but I couldn't hear it either in my apartment or the Sanctimobile. He's going a bit meshuggah from screen deprivation. Ex has been notified, and said she'd help. I'm not in a hurry to help him replace it, though, and I bet Ex isn't either, modern convenience be damned.

You see, he loves to fidget with everything. Hello, Aspie stimming, or as I've called it for years, "feely feely". Then he forgets what's in his hands and leaves it wherever he happens to be standing, a phenomenon which I long ago dubbed "la la la drop"; it got old for me many years ago.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't have Find My Phone installed. My only hope? Metro's Lost & Found, or blind luck.

ETA: He found it under his bed at his mother's house. Somehow she didn't hear it when either of us dialed.

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[ximinez]

If it's an Android, you may be able to locate it from the Android Device Manager, too. https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

Good luck.

OTOH, if it is gone, this may be a good opportunity for a responsibility lesson: "You get a new phone when you can pay for it yourself up front."

[tylik.livejournal.com]

When T got drunk and lost* his phone, Lauren went out the next day and got him a flip phone. And we chortled to each other about it for *months*. (Okay, there was also sympathy, and also a lot of "OMG, he was so wasted!" "He is so grounded!" "...but it's really such a normal way to get in trouble, and what do either of us know about being a normal teenager, anyway?" We probably shouldn't find him so hilarious, but there you have it.)

He is finally out of smart phone prison, and much happier, but darn, best self inflicted consequence ever. Though now he is saving money from his after school job to buy a van.

* Well, he later found it, but it was broken.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

That's a good tip for next time. This time, though, he found it at his mother's.

[tereshkova2001.livejournal.com]

There's jewelry designed specifically for stimming, which has the advantage of being attached to one's person and thus harder to lose. Dunno if he'd be into that, though.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I don't tell him it's for stimming... Nah. That's really not my style.