Charbot'sLife

The randomness, The woman, The legacy

April 02, 2006

What IS it with me & cell phones?!

I have bad luck with cell phones.

I have gone through two cell phones within the past year and a half. Not only have I broke two cell phones but they broke the same way.

CELL PHONE #1
Senior year of college I was taking a pottery/ceramics class fall semester. One Friday evening I had scheduled a time to glaze my pieces before the firing on Monday. I was wearing scrubby clothes as I was going to be working with glazes. However, I did bring my keys, the ceramics key, and my cell phone. I always have a cell phone with me. Especially if I was going to be the only person in the ceramics studio. I had placed these items in my pocket of my very baggy overalls (This information will come in useful later). Upon arrival of the studio I chose my glaze colors, made the appropriate notes and begun to glaze. One of the glazes had to be shaken up. I made sure the lid was on tight, but if any of you know about ceramics glaze, many layers of dried up glaze is on the lid and lip of the bottle, thereby giving the illusion of "screwed on" but not. As I was shaking the glaze the lid FLEW off the bottle and peripinkle (actual color) spattered on my chest, hand, and torso. It continued to ooze it's way down my shirt and overalls. I tried to clean up the mess as best as possible before I left the ceramic studio. I walked back to my apartment and peeled off my overalls and shirt coated in glaze. I filled the sink with warm water and a dash of laundry detergent and placed my shirt and overalls into the water completely forgetting about my keys and my cell phone. As I was getting ready for the rest of the evening I was looking for my keys and phone ignoring the possibility that they could be and in fact were submerged in the sink with my peripinkle stained clothes.I thought I left them in the studio. When I arrived home from going out, about three hours later, I looked at my clothes and felt the left pocket of my overalls only to find my keys and cell phone. My cell phone was completely soaked. I pushed the screen where there was a distinct water line and got squirted with cold, pinkish water. There was nothing I could do.

CELL PHONE #2:
Yesterday I was home alone on a Saturday night about to enjoy a movie with my nighttime snack of peanut butter oreos and a glass of milk. Of course, I had my cell phone with me. In my left hand I had my four oreos and my phone. In my right, my glass of milk. First I placed the glass of milk on the table and was preparing to place my oreos and phone next to it on my napkin. Suddenly, my phone did a gymnastic tumble into my glass of milk (I gave it a 8.5). Call it Nokia suicide, but I swear it leaped out of my hand. I saw the lights go out once it hit the bottom of the glass. I quickly responded and tried to grab it out of the milk before any major damage occurred. I mean, I know what happens to phones if you leave them in water too long. Learned THAT the hard way. It was too late. I brought the phone out of the milk and it continued to drip milk out of the sides. I tried to dry it out as best as possible, but the damage was too extensive. Right now, the phone lights up but doesn't respond to pushing it's buttons. Milk induced coma.

Another one bites the dust.

Charbot: 2

Cell Phones: 0