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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cattoy" data-source="post: 5738206" data-attributes="member: 38606">The fundamental reason most people would more than likely offer their cell phone to a famous person is that the famous person is more than likely to give it back.Why? Without even knowing which famous person, the answer is because a famous person has more to lose by not returning the phone than the value of a phone. Fame is a commodity, and if you are famous and do dumb things, you will do damage to the value of that commodity. Look at how much financial damage Tiger Woods took when it was revealed that he was cheating on his wife. Not only is he going to suffer mightily because of a messy divorce settlement, he lost many endorsement contracts, valued at millions of dollars per year. That's a lot of damage to take for some illicit nookie.Now, your average celebrity isn't going to lose quite that much literally or figuratively, because they failed to return a borrowed cell phone, but the hit to their popularity is probably going to be measurably more than the cost of just buying a cell phone.So, yeah, most people would happily lend a cell phone to most celebrities simply becauseA: they expect they'll get it back.B: they expect they'll get some bragging rights out of it.In that light, I loaned dice to Steve Jackson once. I don't even remember if I got them back.</blockquote>