The unthinkable happened to me. I am out of town and my phone crapped out on me. One minute I was playing a game on my phone, the next my screen was flickering. Kinda like when a TV screen goes out. Well exactly like it. The difference is this is my phone with all of my shit on it. Literally, all of my shit. Even all of my passwords are saved in my phone. Websites, businesses and apps are requiring such complicated passwords that I can’t remember all of that. Then they make you change them and that never works out for me. So I don’t know any of them except for the one I use for my bank.
There is so many things wrong with this situation. Like I said, I am out of town. Two, I drove here. It is a 14 hour drive. That requires music and any other interesting thing to keep one entertained for such a long journey. Not missing the fact that I would need a mode of communication just in case I had any issues on the road. Verizon is running a deal with $300 off a Samsung Note 10 (yes I am Team Android) and I had thought about upgrading. But I love my phone and up until that point, it had been working fine. I have insurance on my phone and would have been able to get it fixed, yet all the information I needed is back at home…ugh! So I say forget it. I am just going to get this new phone. I visit Verizon’s website using my laptop and I am unpleasantly surprised. Whereas the other day when I viewed the deal and there were phones available, that is no longer a fact this day. They are all out of the phone that I want! And so are the local retailers where I am at.
Now I am like what the hell do I do!?!? Ok, ok, I can grab a prepaid phone from Target and use that as my mode of communication for my trip home, do what I need to get my phone fixed and I am good. Yes, plan made. As I am sure you’ve guessed by now, plan already failed. For one, why the hell are they charging all this money for prepaid phones, even a janky ass flip phone? Two, the cheapest one they had was on sale for $20 and they were out of them. I will be damned if I pay more than $20 for a damn phone that is wack ass hell and I will probably never use again. Being as it is a prepaid, I still have to load the damn thing up to even use it. I am trying to accept the fact that I may still have to go with this plan when I overhear my mom’s conversation. She is complaining about the one time she had to get a phone at Best Buy because Verizon did not have the phone she wanted in stock.
Yes, yes! How have I forgot about the fact that Best Buy sells phones? I guess because I haven’t been there in a while due to the pandemic. Like they never even crossed my mind. So, this story has a somewhat happy ending after all. Best Buy did have the phone I wanted available including the deal for the extra $300 off the phone. They even had the color I wanted. The downside, I can’t get it until Tuesday. The other upside, I don’t plan on leaving South Carolina until Thursday. That gives me enough time to get the phone set up for a successful trip back home.
The reason why it is not a completely happy ending is because a good portion of my shit is stuck on that phone. I was able to retrieve some things by hooking my phone to my laptop and saving it to my laptop. But the things I had not saved to my phone or SD card are lost. So now I am at a place where I need to figure out a safe way to save important information just in case this happens again. I used to keep all of my passwords and important information in a notebook, but we all know that is not safe either. That would require me carrying that notebook with me all the time, the possibility of it getting lost and someone having all my important information. I don’t want to save it in my laptop either because this damn thing could crap out as well and I won’t have access again.
Has this happened to you? What did you do to make sure that you would not be in this position again? Technology is great but when it fucks up, it is the worse. I have to formulate a plan. I am open to any tips. I don’t know about y’all but I have become too dependent on my devices. They are so convenient. I actually write majority of my blog posts on my phone because I always have it with me. When a thought strikes I can just go to my Evernote app and get to typing. It is easy to add pictures or videos since they are already on my phone. I even have the WordPress app that I can use to upload the posts. Really convenient. Not to mention the music. Amazon Music app loaded with my favorite jams. Comedy shows downloaded from Netflix to listen to when I am on long drives and bored. And countless other options available to us right in our hands.
If this has not ever happened to you, I hope it never does. Total pain in the ass. Lol. I just realized I never mentioned that I am unable to receive/send text or calls. I guess that isn’t as important. I know that America is back “open”, but Coronavirus cases are still climbing and racism continues to rear its ugly head. There is a lot going on. At the same time, so is our everyday lives. Just be careful. Be well and whole. Much love 🧡💚