I had a PDA (an O2 XDA IIi) but this summer, the screen cracked for no apparent reason during a 5-minute walk. As it is a touch-sensitive screen, it was rendered totally useless. This was the day before I was due to move to Zuid Holland.
So I used my mum’s old phone, one of those tiny Samsung sliding one – E800 SGH. Well that stopped working on the Journey to London but then it reworked itself again that evening.
Well, it’s broken again, same fault, but it won’t rectify itself. So I had an even older phone, almost a brick – a Nokia 3300 – a relic of the millennium.
So I start charging it up all day… or so I thought. Instead of charging up, it decided to overheat. Luckily I caught it at the end of the day before bedtime, the phone was like a hot potato, quickly took it outside onto the patio, took out the battery as quickly and carefully as I can and left it there, making sure nothing around it can catch fire if it decided to spontaneously cremate itself.
So, I have no phone to text my friends and family at home in the UK and can’t telephone them because I’m too deaf to use a phone (and since I never use a phone, I never remember any telephone numbers). Thank god for email and MSN Messenger.
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