I broke my phone! :-(

[vin_petrol]

I think it was sliding down a slide in the park this morning with evie_petrol. I've cracked the screen and it's utterly unreadable.

I feel totally bereft. I've had a P800 or P900 by my side constantly for over three years now.

I've got an old spare phone at home, but it's a clunky and ancient T68i, suitable for voice calls and not much else. Hopefully I'll be able to find a suitable replacement in the recycle bin at work tomorrow.

However, I now face 18 hours without my beautiful Sony Ericsson P900. I may gibber and go into a bit of a decline.

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Come on now - deep breath, there thats better, you can play with all the toys again tomorrow......
Hope all well except for the lack of phone-ness. Fancy lunch one day this week?

[vin_petrol]

Ooh, yes, lunch would be lovely. I went alone to the David Street cafe one day last week and the serving man looked hopeful ;-)
What day is good for you?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

How about Thursday? I'll see if I can finish earlier than 2pm as well and let you know.

[vin_petrol]

Thursday sounds good to me. I'll put it in my phone now, so I don't forget ... bugger!

You had best remind me between now and then. I've been outsourcing my memory to Sony Ericsson for the last three years, and I can't remember things at all any more.

[vin_petrol]

Aha! It's now In My (new) Phone, so it's real and happening ;-)

[clotilde.livejournal.com]

You addict, you! I've been six months without a mobile of any sort at all, and I've barely noticed the difference.

[vin_petrol]

But, but, but ... how do you check your email? Keep track of your appointments? Know where anyone lives? Send flirty text messages to people? Listen to digitised music files? Keep track of your "to do" list? Play solitaire if you find yourself waiting somewhere unexpectedly, with no other form of mental diversion to hand? Take pictures? Shoot videos?

My P900 was so much more than just a device for making voice calls...

Mobile Phones

[girl-patrick.livejournal.com]

Vin, if it makes you feel better then Henry posted my Dad's mobile down the bog when he was a bit younger. I don't think I've seen him that angry since I super-glued his hand to his coffee mug when I was a kid.

Re: Mobile Phones

[vin_petrol]

don't think I've seen him that angry since I super-glued his hand to his coffee mug when I was a kid.

*snigger* classic!

[custancia.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't "they" make the phones a little more robust than that? After all every self respecting 7 year old, and impoverished student has them these days - and they must get up to worse than going down a slide?!!?!?

Just think of this as a way of checking that your memory can still work - after all if you don't check it regualar, how will you know whether you have dementia when you're 90?

[vin_petrol]

Well, there are "ruggedised" phones which are a lot tougher. My phone clearly wasn't built for going down slides :-(

[cyberspice.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Poor you! Have you the shakes yet?

[vin_petrol]

I was fine till I got back to work and discovered that the man with the key to the phone-recycle cupboard was away TILL NEXT WEEK - ARGH!

Fortunately, an email to EVERYONE located another keyholder, who got me the last P900 in the box. I'm restoring a backup to it now.

[miss-dark.livejournal.com]

Oh dear!!!! Will I still recognise you? I've never seen you without your phone! *grin*

Can you get all the info off it and get your work to give you a shiny new phone to put it on?

[vin_petrol]

Can you get all the info off it and get your work to give you a shiny new phone to put it on?

Oh yes - I've got no problems there. I regularly sync it with Microsoft Outlook so all my calendar items and contacts are on my Windows machine too (both at home and at work). I've actually been able to switch it on and connect it to my computer, and I'm syncing and backing it up now. It's the screen that's completely, utterly broken.

[fookr.livejournal.com]

'connect it to my computer'?
Jeeesh grandad, get with the modern age, no-one uses cables these days. Anyway, that pink shaver of a phone you use has had its day. Evolve dude.