One Saturday night my boss and her family came to our house. As they were driving away at the end of the
evening, I discovered that she had left her handbag in a corner of the dining room. I was about to call her house, intending to leave a message on the answering machine, when my son reminded me that they had a
mobile phone. As I dialled the number, I marvelled at the technology that would alert them before they had
driven home. A few seconds later the handbag began to ring.(reader's digest)
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