This is why you should never, ever leave your phone at work

Oh dear.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- Leaving your phone lying around is a bad idea for a number of reasons.

It could get damaged, lost, or stolen.

Or, as was the case with the guy below, it could end up going viral.

On Saturday, Scottish writer and proofreader Kat shared the following image along with the simple caption: "Someone left his phone at my friend's work".

We love the way it basically tells a whole story in just three notifications.

Kat later followed up to say that while she didn't know how the situation had been resolved, she did discover that the sausages in question were of the Quorn variety.

We're willing to bet the unnamed phone owner had some fires to put out when he got home.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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