MY CELL PHONE DIED!
That's right. I'm pretty sure Hick had something to do with it. I was sitting on the short couch, having just gotten my phone back from Hick's meaty hand, after showing him a picture of the sourdough bread Genius made. I was merely sweeping my fingers together, shrinking down that picture, when the screen of my phone went black.
No amount of effort nor cajoling could bring it back. Sure, my cell phone is mighty long-in-the-tooth. It's a Nexus LG 7, I think. Something like that. When it came out, Genius waited extra time to get the BLUE version, rather than white or black. It's always looked GRAY to me. But he swore it was blue. Genius used it a couple years before he took our new phone offer for himself, and gave his old one to me. That thing's gotta be over 7 years old.
Anyhoo...Hick put in an emergency text to Genius. Who was busy watching a movie (!) and said he'd get back to me. When he called (on the house phone, good thing I didn't get rid of the landline), he said:
"Sometimes the older phones do that. The battery will go dead all at once, even if it shows 40 or 50% power remaining. It might actually be dead. You can try plugging it in to charge all night. Then we'll work from there if it's still dead. It's not like you can run out to the Sprint Store and get another one these days. If it's dead, you can order one online."
"I don't know how to make a new phone work!"
"Calm down. We'll deal with it."
I searched online, and found two possible fixes for it. I'll try them tomorrow, if the charging doesn't work. Can't hurt nothin'.
I'd rather have something go REALLY GOOD in my life, and blog about THAT.
Seven years? That's 125 in cell phone years. People with phones that old probably don't even own a dishwasher!
ReplyDeleteYes. And still use cash for convenience store transactions, and pay their bills with a check in the mail.
DeleteI think my phone is an I-phone 6. My step children who are not children any more own I-phone whatever the latest is with special features that they "Have to have." That's fine except we are still paying for them. Probably a new one every other year. It does not bother me though, I do not complain to Mrs. C...the storage unit doesn't bother me at all either, or hidden deserts, or her water and paper towel conservation.
ReplyDeleteYOU are still paying for the phones of your adult step children?? huh!
Deletemy grandkids got phones when they were in high school and when they eventually got their first jobs, they were told the phone bills were now their own and they'd have to learn to budget. They did.
I don't even know where to start here! Details coming up tomorrow...
DeleteYou are preaching to the choir River. There are some arguments best avoided, the marriage is worth more than the extra phone bill...It took a while, but I'm learning.
DeleteThe phone! No, not that.
ReplyDeletethis made me nod my head: FORCED TOGETHERNESS
I need an anti-anxiety something, which seems to be Pinot Grigio.
Keep well.
Yes, the PHONE! Cut off my lifeline while I'm trapped in the middle of nowhere! I got a brief respite from the togetherness today, when Hick made another hospital run to the city with his friend.
DeleteMy phone has done that a couple of times and revived after a lengthy charging. My old laptop did the same, more than once, and I just walked away and left it for a few hours then pressed the power button several seconds to do a manual power off and then again to restart it and it was fine. Didn't know what was going on. I was a wreck thinking I was going to have to go out and buy a new one, which of course I eventually did because that was the Toshiba and she was dying.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe you should go ahead and order a new phone so you have it ready to go when this one finally carks it.
Oh, it's CARKED alright! Not for lack of trying, with online life support techniques.
DeleteYou and I are in the same twilight zone I am afraid. First of all my TV remote quit working. So it is 15 years old and is held together my duct tape and the markings are all off but we have it memorized. But is worked and then I could not watch NETflix which is the only thing keeping me alive and hubs out of my hair most of the time. Then I screw up by ability to blog so I can't even complain to a screen and pretend it is listening. You are listening right? I had to go 4 days with no good TV and 5 days without being able to talk to my psychiatrist( blog screen) I think we need to take a long vacation after this without the men.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am listening. I am not hard of hearing, despite what my junk mail thinks.
DeleteNO NO NO! Not the REMOTE! One more thing for me to worry about. And the blogging! Please, please let my HIPPIE and New Delly maintain their fragile health. New Delly gives me warnings every day about Windows 7.
@ Out My Window; Did you try the simplest fix of all? New batteries?
DeleteMy blog has been lost to me, so I made a new blog. I hate my new one. When my remote goes out, I am berserk.
ReplyDeleteKnock on (my laminate desktop) wood! I haven't lost a blog yet. I hate change, so I never update the look. When my remote gets messed up, I cry, try to fix it for 30 minutes, then call one of my boys for help.
DeleteNO! YOU cannot stop blogging. Your posts are what I look forward to every time I switch on the computer. I'm going to come out there and throw some pennies in the gravel. What would i DO without my cell phone? I hear you loud and clear.
ReplyDeleteAw! It's comforting to know that I have a "fan." Your penny-throwing offer could get you interrogated by my dog-grooming neighbor if you get caught!
DeleteI don't PLAN to stop. It just takes extra effort to try and come up with something. Last night it was after 1:00 a.m. when I decided on a topic. Thanks and NO thanks to my phone!
I would be as annoyed as you. my phone died at the beginning of this year, and i went to costco and got a new one - so the Genius is right, it can easily be fixed :) but i would be soooo annoyed all the same.
ReplyDeleteMy tv was not connecting properly to my laptop and it was super frustrating (i had a first world problem meltdown)but if my phone went, now? lawd have mercy.
Yes, I tried to talk myself off the ledge late last night in my OPC (Old People Chair). "Self, all you have to do is go buy another phone. The store IS open. You have the money. You have all this time to learn how a new phone works. You have Genius to call for help. It's nothing. Many people have a lot worse problems." My self listened.
DeleteThat's another point I could have made to myself. "The TV is working. Chill."