A mobile phone is, I have just realised, a window to the world, a time piece, a browser. Okay so you get the picture.
There I was earlier on and had been messing about with the phone, you know the way, you get blasé and think, pffft oh looks its restarted itself, aye, have you?? Go on do your best. I'm going to watch that film I was watching earlier and you my little shiny device can stay in the huff. Coz you know what? I don’t need you!
Then ten minutes later because I was itching to use the phone so went to check on it.
Okay, so its powered down, no problem.
Pressed the power button...Nothing happened.
S'cool. Phones just don’t stop working, so held the power button down again, but for longer.
I got that voice inside me saying, it’s still now working...
You spurned me, now I’m not working.
Oh, for goodness sake says the other more rational voice and I head to Google, my god what would we do without Google.
So, find an article, after 5 minutes of flicking past some fanboys saying phones just die are you insane, no fanboy, but I am panicking a wee bit here, so bear with me.
Ok, step one. Hold in the power button.
Step two, ah its cool, this will work surely, hold the power button and the volume button up, ah thank goodness, I am saved, it’s all going to be okay again, I don’t need to go to the repair shop, I can also stop worrying about who might be calling, ah god it could be important, it’s like being back in the 80s when you didn’t have an answer machine and you didn’t get to the phone in time, they were gone and you were in desolate landscape wondering who was that knowing you would never know...
Okay, try step two, hang on, that didn’t work...
Now I am really panicking, I’ve tried charging it, I’ve tried begging, I’ve tried pleading. I’ve berated myself for my attitude earlier, please work phone, without your mighty access to the outside world I'm like a helpless kitten.
Marooned and hopeless I stare into the distance. Why didn’t I care more? Why didn’t I show my phone more love when accidentally hurling it to the ground taking it out of my pocket.
Oh cruel and uncaring universe, why have you forsaken me, why have you taken my ability to send amusing tweets to people who will never read it, or pass judgement on a subject I know little of till I looked at Wikipedia, coz that must be right, it can’t be wrong?? Can it...
Then I read the article again, eh? Hold the power and volume button down for the hidden loader screen. What's this, what was that wee buzz and vibrate, it’s like I’m Harry Potter's drunken seedy Uncle, I've made a thing do a "thing".
I randomly press "stuff" and phone does something "else"...
Woo hoo! Its rebooted and came up again.
There is a lesson here Steemians, not sure what it is coz I fired the phone into the corner and dared it to defy me again, for I know the secret ways.
I just hope i can remember how to get into it again.
