Broken
By jackb
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I remembered why my phone is broken today. Often what happens is
that when people call me (or try to call me) or try to send me text
messages, my phone literally doesn't work. The problem I have is that
there have been various times when I've ignored my phone when other
friends who've tried without success to get through to me previously
have been sitting right next to me while I'm ignoring it, which doesn't
help my "but my phone wasn't working" cause one little bit, despite it
being true most of the time.
The thing is that sometimes I'm really just not in the mood to talk to
people - mainly when I'm on public transport. I've seen so may people
literally diving at their phones the second it goes off, as if that's
the moment, that one right there, that's so important - the PHONECALL
FROM SOMEONE - that means all their tendons get into a right old state
moving their body to answer it in time that you wonder they don't pull
anything, that really makes me think some people don't have enough
going on in their lives (or maybe too much, who knows).
Then, there are those people who leave their phone ringing for so
unbelievably long, whilst fumbling mock-embarrassed through their
oh-so-tiny bag which so blatantly has nothing else BUT their phone in
it, so that everybody knows they've got a phone call in a sort of "look
at me, I know other people, I don't just sit on trains and look bored"
kind of way; and I never wanted to be either of those people so I have
my phone on vibrate, which means if I'm in a place where I can talk
properly, I can talk and if I'm on a bus and I don't want to talk
(because unfortunately I talk ridiculously loudly on mobiles - so much
so it bothers even me) I can ignore it.
But that's not the main problem. What the main problem is, is it's not
just me that's selective - my phone is too. Sometimes I miss calls and
text messages all together through no fault of my own. What is my fault
- and the boy that cried wolf moral is not lost on me here - is that
I've ignored my phone one too many times (whilst being watched) no one
thinks it's a valid excuse anymore that sometimes, really, sometimes, I
just don't receive calls/texts etc because my phone is crap.
Anyway, regardless to all this, or perhaps what helps understand all
this is that I remembered today exactly why my phone is so buggered.
And that is because she smashed it against my head, and then the nearby
bedroom wall, one morning after we'd had a night out and I'd done
something wrong. I can't remember exactly what it was that I did wrong
(and I'm not denying I didn't do anything wrong, I was very prone to
that sort of thing back then and sometimes still am. I think on the
night in question I may have hugged a female friend for longer than
what my ex (and in all fairness most people) would deem necessary
and/or acceptable.)
I had, as usual, forgotten about this entire incident the next morning.
Safe to say, she had not. I was lying head down in pillows, groaning my
illness whilst being berated for the aforementioned over-affectionate
behaviour, before feeling my phone being thrown at the back of it,
before hearing the back compartment and battery fly out. She then threw
it at the wall, although by now there was nothing left to smash off it
so it just bounced to the floor and she walked off.
I knew I had a valid reason why my phone doesn't work properly. This
sudden flashback also helps to explain why I didn't remember the
incident in question as well as I would've had I not had an object
thrown against my head from close range. Two very valid reasons for
pulling together today, definitely. I should probably buy a new phone,
though no doubt I'll forget by this afternoon. All her fault, of
course.
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