Also so sorry to hear this! Don't worry, I won't regale you with "It happened to me, too..." stories. But wow, it does remind us all how all the Olde World Analog stuff had more graceful failure modes. All I need to "activate" cash is my hand reaching into my pocket, all I need to activate a land line is some coins, and then I can ask a Real Live Person to look up the number of the person I want. There must be some word or term for our current situation: where we have dramatically more EFFICIENCY and GENERALLY better failure modes (if I throw my phone in the Thames I can reload a new phone with my stuff within hours), but some much worse SPECIFIC failure modes. It's like traveling across the USA: in 1800 that took months, by wagon, and failures were frequent but local (like when the horse gets sick and dies), but in 2022 it takes only hours, by plane, and is much safer ... except when it DOES fail, and then everyone on the plane is........ sorry, morbid analogy!
Also so sorry to hear this! Don't worry, I won't regale you with "It happened to me, too..." stories. But wow, it does remind us all how all the Olde World Analog stuff had more graceful failure modes. All I need to "activate" cash is my hand reaching into my pocket, all I need to activate a land line is some coins, and then I can ask a Real Live Person to look up the number of the person I want. There must be some word or term for our current situation: where we have dramatically more EFFICIENCY and GENERALLY better failure modes (if I throw my phone in the Thames I can reload a new phone with my stuff within hours), but some much worse SPECIFIC failure modes. It's like traveling across the USA: in 1800 that took months, by wagon, and failures were frequent but local (like when the horse gets sick and dies), but in 2022 it takes only hours, by plane, and is much safer ... except when it DOES fail, and then everyone on the plane is........ sorry, morbid analogy!