That shrubbery by the apartments: Specifically placed along the path to swallow dropped phones, then taunt you as you stomp around searching in them while the neighbors close the blinds.
Toilets: One second your phone's in your pocket, the next it's in your poop. Especially voracious are automatic flush toilets, which will coldheartedly spit your phone out of a sewage pipe somewhere to become fish food.
Library couch cushions: They seem innocuous enough, but they're just waiting for your first bathroom break to suck your phone into the vortex of 3 a.m. cramtime despair. Also known for ingesting pens, glasses and the occasional hapless homework assignment.
Black-out black hole: The most fearsome of all -- it can strike anything and anywhere. Its first victim will be your memory, then it'll suck in your phone/purse/keys/SpiderCard/jacket/entire weekend, only to spit them out onto a garbage heap on the other side of the universe.
Contact staff writer Maria Ribas at mariaelisa.ribas@richmond.edu
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