Yes, about two weeks ago. I was in a restaurant having dinner with a friend. It was a smorgasbord-style Chinese restaurant with a giant 200 gallon fish tank mounted in the center of the room with about 200 goldfish swimming around inside their brightly illuminated environment. Across from where we were sitting, there was a guy sitting alone but talking non-stop and very loudly on his cellphone, telling someone a story about his last fishing trip. After about 30 minutes of listening to his very loud boy-talk banter with his macho-man fishing buddy he was talking to, he finally put the caller on hold while he got up and went over to the salad bar, leaving his cellphone sitting still connected with his caller on his table next to his cutlery.
I saw an opportunity suddenly present itself. Excusing myself from our table, I got up and walked over to that lonely table for one, I picked up the guy's cellphone from the table, then walked over to the fish tank and dropped his phone into the water, watching it slide down the inside of the glass and getting wedged against a plastic sunken treasure at the bottom which aided in keeping his cellphone standing upright in the fish tank and in full view.
I then went back and sat down at my friend's table... When the guy came back to his table, he never even noticed that his cellphone was missing, but instead just started eating his salad! He had forgotten that he had put his friend on hold before he got up to hit the buffet, but there was his cellphone bubbling away in full view, about 10 feet away from where he was sitting!
