The Flushed Phone

..lives again!

I have been using one of our old phones. And it worked perfectly fine.

And I knew how to use it. Which was a way big plus.

But it was hard to text on this ‘old fashioned’ phone. Isn’t that funny? Old-fashioned cell phone! (…why, back in the day, I remember when there were party lines, and different homes had different rings…and there were rotary dials…and manual typewriters were for ‘texting’…)

Wonderful Guy and I went phone shopping. Seems there is a ‘lost and stolen plan’ where one gets a discount, albeit a lesser one than the ‘new every two’ plan. So we went to see what there was to be had in a comparable style to what I really liked and enjoyed and had fun with, but unfortunately, appeared to have killed.

None of them were as nifty neat-o as the one I water-boarded.

Except the Blackberry Storm…oooh….now that is like chocolate chocolate chip ice cream….yummy and sweet!

Also. Very expensive. And I have been jonesing for a dSLR camera since the first of the year. I don’t want to have to spend some of THAT money on a new phone that I shouldn’t have to need.

So I went home and tried up my dead phone once more. And I thought to plug it into the charger, and lo! The display lights up.

Says ‘Battery charging’! Well. Saints alive!

15 seconds later? ‘Battery charged’ That can’t be right.

I unplug it and the display goes blank. And I am downcast again.

But then, I think…I should try to turn it on while it is plugged in! And , behold! it fires up, just like a normal, dry phone ought to! I can’t call, because service has been switched, but I take a photo, and it works…as long as it is plugged in.

Not plugged in, dead as a door nail.

Wonderful Guy tests the battery with a zapper charger battery checker thing he has in a magic bag of tricks he keeps in the garage, and it appears…appears….the battery is fried.

A new one was ordered for far less than…say, a Blackberry Storm….and winged its way to me even as I anxiously awaited all week.

It arrived today, and I could tell immediately there was life to be had! After a brief charging, a nice chat with the Verizon guy (I looked looked over my shoulder and didn't see the crowd that is in all the commercials...I was reduced to phoning!), I called/txted all the kids that were witnessing to the flushing fiasco.

Momma's a happy camper, and the wallet no less flatter for it!