I've owned 4 cell phones over the last 20 years, all of them still operational and in good condition when they were shut off. My wife goes through one or more cell phones a year, usually breaking them or some feature magically fails on the device like the mic stops working. Last night she decided to lose her phone while shopping in Wal-Mart late at night for school supplies. She comes home defeated after spending about half an hour walking around with a manager while she's calling my wife's number trying to find it.
She wants to take my phone back to the store to try and continue the search, to which I say "Hell no" because I need my phone for work and can't have her losing or destroying mine too (Wised up and started getting protective cases for her phones, but I don't use one). I decide to go back and search the Back to School aisles myself. It's midnight, and I've got mud and drywall dust on me as I was patching holes in the walls before bed, but fuck it...gonna find that phone if it hasn't been stolen. I spend close to an hour in the store between asking employees if they've seen the phone and searching aisles. Makes it really tough to hear a ringer because the floor waxer is in operation for quite awhile. I eventually give up because I need the sleep, so I offer the manager a $50 reward if anyone finds it because at this point I'm probably just going to buy a $100 used phone for her on Ebay. She's only had this phone for 3 months and I'm not buying her a new one. I finally get to sleep about 2am when all is said and done.
Fast forward 4 hours later and I get a call from the manager, they found the phone on a folding table in women's clothes. "Oh yeah, I was looking at tank tops after I looked at the school supplies," my wife says. She offers to drive down and get the phone, but I decide to be nice and do it myself. Get back to the store and pickup the phone, manager refuses to take the $50 reward after several attempts because of company policy. I promise to leave a good word for her GM in the morning. I get back home and get another hour of sleep before I have to be up for work. Wife wakes up later to take care of the kids, not even a fucking thank you for going to get her phone.