ICE Mother!

After the events in London last week, a campaign is gathering pace for people to have their emergency contacts clearly visible in their mobile by prefixing important phone numbers with ICE: In Case of Emergency.

How clever.

Anyway, I've done mine:



Poor Mothers around the world are going to be getting ever so excited to think that their offspring have finally decided to contact them, only to discover that they've been involved in a horrible accident.

You can imagine the scenario should some disaster befall the Cakesniffer and Mother be contacted:

"Hello, Mrs Cakesniffer. This is Constable Bleeuurghh from Greater Manchester Police. I have some bad news, there's been a terrible accident on the motorway and all that remains of your daughter and her 2 tonne Nissan is this bit of plastic; it's a bit scratched, but it's in perfect working order."

Mother would quite rightly be shocked, but I'm sure she'd soon get over it and then be thrilled at being able to upgrade her phone with my old one before the end of my 12 month tie-in period.

Of course, when the Government has its way and we're all microchipped, all those that don't carry mobiles will be identifiable too.