The first time I heard about putting an ICE (in case of emergency) entry in a cell phone, I thought about “What if my cell gets run over by a truck” ? Then the silly chain letter started hitting everyones inbox and I still wasn’t convinced.

Have you ever seen the size of a cell phone manual? Of course you have – how long does it take you to figure out how to put entries in, edit entires then find them once you saved them in your contact list? Ok, for some maybe ten minutes – but think about this, do you really want some paramedic stood on the sidelines trying to figure out how in hell to retrieve your contact list on your cell phone instead of administering cpr to you? And what about those of us who ‘lock’ the phone when not in use? They’re not going to know the unlock code so the ICE idea is really useless for me.

Take a tip from Mary , Write it all down in on a little card and store it in your wallet, because that’s the first place the cops/paramedics and hospital staff are going to look when they need to contact your loved one.