Our good friends the Peperkorns are moving to California and will be stopping by soon. Lloyd and I were trying to spiff the place up, and as he was vacuuming, there was suddenly a terrible, terrible noise.
(Question: If you were driving a vacuum and it suddenly made a terrible, terrible noise, wouldn’t you stop said vacuum immediately? Somebody didn’t, and can’t seem to explain his actions. I maintain that it is because he is so unfamiliar with using a vacuum that he thought the sound was normal. He does the same thing when a spoon is in the disposal.)
Back to the story: I screamed, “Stop!”, then we turned over the vacuum to see all the length of my phone charger cord wrapped around the beater bar. The plug-in part was far, far away from it.
Boooo.
Hmmmmm. This could be a problem. It’s not that I call people very much, but I do use the alarm clock feature (three alarms: The ‘wake up’ one, the ‘you should be out of the shower by now’ one, and the ‘you should be eating breakfast by now’ one). When I go on home visits I set the alarm so I leave in time for the next visit. I can’t lose battery power!
I thought I could just use my car charger, but I don’t drive enough to charge up the phone without wearing out the car battery. I went to buy a replacement charger at Wal-Mart, but they didn’t have the right size. They did have a cool car-charger-to-outlet gadget, though. Perfect!
Guess what? I can’t find my car charger anywhere. Have you seen it?
Not a big deal. We have a U.S. Cellular place in town and I thought I could just stop by every couple of days and switch out the battery, or just break down and buy a new charger. Until then, I’m returning calls from my Google account:
Funny true story: At my last home visit, I sat down at the table and there was my phone’s twin! I told the parents my sob story and asked if I could borrow a cup of electricity as we visited. They very kindly obliged.
So, it’s time to buy a new charger…… or a new phone. 😀