If you ever asked someone for their mobile phone number and they said "I don’t own a mobile phone,” you _______________ either that a) they are lying or b) they are crazy. 

_______ seems hard to believe that nowadays there are people who don’t own a mobile phone...

...but ______________ those people still exist

I left my expensive phone in a cafe, and it ____________ 

 _______________ a phone, I became fully aware of the extent to which such a small device rules our daily actions. 

I kept reaching into my pocket many times before I remembered that there wasn’t a phone _________________

Now I realise that phones have really taken _______________ our lives