Cell Phone Saga

On Saturday morning, I woke up nice and refreshed, excited to spend the day with Tanner and Clark. The first activity on the docket for the day was to go fishing down by the lake. Clark had just gone down for a nap and so Tanner and I got our fishing gear together and went down to the lake. We took our cell phone with us and told Brianna to call us if Clark happened to wake up before we came back up to the house.

It was a beautiful morning, and Tanner and I grabbed the chairs and we sat on the edge of the dock. As we were getting everything ready, we realized that we needed more worms to hook our fish. We decided that we could probably run to Wal-Mart and get some more and we would still be able to get back and get some fishing in. As I stood up, I had forgotten that our cell phone was in my lap. The phone went "doink" on the dock, and then "plop" right into the lake below us. My instant reaction was to jump in the lake and grab it, but I had a momentary hesitation as I thought about the water moccasin infestation we currently have going on (see Carterclips blog if you have yet to hear about it, and you will understand why I hesitated). Tanner saw me initially go to jump in and then when he saw me hesitate, he yelled "Go!". So I looked back in the water and I could see our phone slowly making it's way to the bottom. I jumped in, Baywatch style I might add (although Tanner says I belly-flopped), with my eyes wide open and sunglasses still on, and grabbed our phone just before it reached the bottom of the lake (about 7 feet down). I came back up and threw it to Tanner. I then rushed to the shore, so that no moccasin would grab me, and went to see the damage. Sopping wet, I looked at Tanner who was shaking water from the phone. I thought, how stupid am I? Our phone just went into water, it is never going to work again! Of course at that moment, you think "Why didn't we buy phone insurance?" and I asked that to Tanner and he said "Because at the time, we weren't thinking, well we might drop it into the lake, so yeah let's buy insurance". Defeated, we came back up to the house, and took apart as much of the phone as we could, and laid it out to dry.

A few hours later, I went to check on it, and the screen looked a little less water logged. I had no hope, but I went and plugged it into the charger, and some lights flickered, but nothing really happened. Later on that day, Tanner and I went to the mall, and asked how much a new phone would cost. A whopping $165 for a replacement. I was so depressed. The only good news was that we wouldn't have the extra $15 charge on top of that for a new sim card because I had saved the phone. I guess jumping in the lake fully clothed was worth $15 I thought. I told Tanner that I would look online on Monday to see if we could find a used phone that was cheaper.

On Sunday we noticed that the T-Mobile sign had come up on the phone from being in the charger, but it was upside down...which we thought was pretty amusing, but it also just further reiterated the fact that this phone was royally messed up.

This morning, I was looking online, and went to look at my phone to see what the model number was so I could get the same phone. I tried one last time to turn it on, and this is what happened.



It works perfectly. Jumping in the lake fully clothed was definitely worth $165. Oh yeah, and when I turned it off and turned it back on again, the T-mobile sign turned right side up.