Great Real-Life Excuses for Lost or Damaged Pagers - By: M Harris

It is a fact of life that pagers can be lost. They are small, lightweight and if they are clipped to belts or jacket pockets, they could become dislodged and subsequently lost. Although today's pagers are pretty robust, they can still be damaged or destroyed - if you put your mind to it. Over time, there have been some extraordinary explanations put forward when people have had to go cap-in-hand to their employer for a new pager. Here are just a few examples you may enjoy:

“I didn't realise I had it on when I got into the bath”

The mind boggles and it really is impossible to say more!

“It got hit by a bouncer”

Perhaps the first reaction is to assume that this relates to some form of nightclub fracas.

In fact, it relates to a cricket batsman!

“It was damaged when I was hit by a train”

If you can work out how it is possible to sustain an accident of that type and for the only damage to be to the radio pager, then you deserve some form of medal.

“One of the cabin crew accidentally threw it away”

The budget airlines might sometimes be accused by their competitors of cutting back on training but you would imagine that they could still tell the difference between an empty coffee cup and a radio pager?

“The only thing stolen was my pager”

Perhaps a possibility - but who exactly would want to go about stealing radio pagers?

“It was cracked by a freak hailstone”

Wow - now that really IS unlucky. Of course, it could have been worse - a flying pig could have caused serious damage.

“It was trampled during a rodeo stampede”

This may sound plausible if you live in somewhere like Texas. However, when offered as an explanation for an event that took place in Milton Keynes, it asks a lot of one’s credulity.

“I accidentally destroyed it with a blow-torch”

If the individual concerned couldn’t tell the difference between a radio pager and a piece of copper piping, then you can only hope that they don't have to do too much driving as part of their job.

“I lost it in the toilet”

This one can really get some scenarios going in your head. Was the loss before or after use of the aforementioned facility? When was it noticed? Why was it not retrieved?

Actually, perhaps we don't want to go there are after all!

The world of pagers is either a very, very zany one or there are some very inventive people out there!

About the Author

Michael Harris is the Marketing Manager for Multitone Systems, a tele communications strategies company that has provided pagers and paging systems for organisations in the public and private sector for many years.

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