Tonight, as I drove over to Victory for Bible study, I called my mom. She was enjoying the fruits of her miniature farm on the porch---a red, ripe tomato! Her dinner consisted of her home-grown tomato sliced onto bread. She said it wasn't very large but size does not a tomato make!
As the first one arriving in the lot, with 10 minutes until the beginning of class, I was relieved to see Shane pull in. He offered to open the church door for me so I said, "Goodbye" to Mom and headed for the door. The other attendees arrived at the same time and of course, Pastor had everything set up in advance for the class.
When I ended the call with my mom, I had to slide the red arrow across the screen of my phone in order to disconnect. I noticed the screen was sort of blank and not responding to "taps" which normally activate things on the face. I shut the phone off in order to do the reset but alas, no response. Dead as a door nail. Erica's Justin tried taking out the battery and reinserting it, but still nothing. Then, he asked me the question: "Is it possible the battery is dead?" Yes, it is entirely possible but normally I would get a couple warning blips, which I must have missed.
Once back in the car, immediately the phone was plugged into the charger. Still nothing. Shoot! I had phone calls to return either tonight or tomorrow, thinking I would have to borrow Justin's phone to do so. I was already planning my day tomorrow for getting a new phone or whatever was needed. Finally, when waiting at the light from the freeway to Hwy. 17, I wiggled around on the car charger and voila!, the phone came to life! I was soooo happy!
When I got upstairs, I told Justin about my near disaster and he was not happy that it came back to life. Because he is all about the "new and improved" before it is needed, he has been wishing for me to get a new phone for a while now, for no apparent reason other than I have had this phone for more than one year.
I shamed him about this thinking, but he claims that once the phone was replaced, the old one could be refurbished and sold on eBay, by him, to cover the cost of the new phone. OR, I can just keep the one I have, now that it's working again. That was a close one!
I shamed him about this thinking, but he claims that once the phone was replaced, the old one could be refurbished and sold on eBay, by him, to cover the cost of the new phone. OR, I can just keep the one I have, now that it's working again. That was a close one!
