If you are old enough, you may remember a Television series that aired between 1979 and 1988. One of the unique qualities at the time was its quirkiness. Each story had an unusual story line, sometimes dark and always with a twist at the end. Another of its inherent features was the perceived mundane nature of the events leading up to the main gist of the story accompanied usually by an implied moral. It was this series that brought to mind a strange event that happened to my brother many years ago when he had his very first mobile phone. In his case, the moral was that he should have taken out mobile phone insurance cover despite how careful he considered himself to be.

Here is a quick anecdote to underline the point of this story. Many years ago when I smoked, I remember driving along. I had the window open for most of the journey and it was just starting to get dark with the inevitable drop in temperature.

I had therefore closed the window. In a moment of forgetfulness, when I had finished the cigarette, I just flicked it, expecting it to spin out of the window. Unfortunately the window was CLOSED! The lighted cigarette fell right between my legs where I was sat and I had a terrifying 2 minutes trying to drive and pick up the cigarette and throw it out of the opened window! Phew!! I was lucky.

Anyway back to my brother. He was busy on his phone, gesticulating like people often do when talking on mobile phones as if the person they are talking to is there!

At the end of this particularly lively discussion with his wife, he swirled his hand as if waving her away. Unfortunately, he also let go of the handset! Off it sailed across the motorway only to be crushed under the gigantic wheels of a 40 ton truck. The end!

After the initial shock he decided to check his mobile phone insurance cover when he got home to make sure that this event, however bizarre, was covered. It was. Relief, however, was short-lived when he found that his wife had thought that he had simply cut her off whilst arguing with her on the phone and he spent the next few days having `deaf and dumb` dinners as the saying goes!

So there you have it, an unusual story with a twist at the end a moral for all mobile phone owners.