Thank you so much for allowing my humble cellphone to live. You have been most kind to me and for that I will be grateful and faithful to you.
What is this about, you ask? Well, it all began during an iPod hunting spree. My beloved friends (Ivy, Benjamin and Charlie) and I were out having dinner at the Chinese restaurant La Muralla China when we (by we I mean just Ivy and I) decided we were hitting Borders afterwards. This proved to be a great opportunity to go get an iPod, and idea that I’ve been tossing around in my head for the longest time. Charlie crapped out on us but we were faithful to our mission. I was left disappointed when I found out that Borders only carries iPod accessories, but not the iPods themselves. After this sad finding I wanted to check if OfficeMax was open…but it wasn’t. Giving up on hunting for an iPod on a Sunday at almost 9pm (I know, I know…) I left the mall premises.
Knowing me, I wasn’t done just yet…
There’s a video store close by called Video Avenue, which I have seen carrying iPods before, so I decided to give it a chance just in case. Since odds were that they wouldn’t have any I told Ivy and Benjie to wait in the car. I was right, they had nothing. I come back to the car and along the way I remember that Blockbuster used to sell iPods as well, and with Benjamin’s reassurance I felt confident that I would find that elusive Sunday iPod. As I’m about to get out of the car in front of Blockbuster I realize that I don’t have my cellphone on me and it’s nowhere to be found in the car…
“Last time I saw it I put it between my legs when we left Borders…”, I thought.
Holy Shit.
I drove back as fast as I could. I drive back into the very same spot I parked just mere minutes ago. “Isn’t that it!?”, Ivy asked. “I think it is…IT IS!”, I said with joy. Then, this is what I found…
The horror…
“Damn it, damn it, damn it…”, I thought. “Oh my God, it’s broken…”, I said with a very worried and sorrowful voice. I hand it over to them, seeing their horrified faces…when they both asked “But does it work?” in perfect unison. What do you know? Ivy turned it on and it works perfectly! Only thing wrong with it is its top cover which, as you can see, is cracked beyond belief. Oh well, I’m still grateful it works. It’s been dropped, kicked, sat on, thrown against a wall, and now ran over car. It’s a miracle. It really, truly is.
