accidentally primitive...
last night i was waiting for a friend at BV (that's ghetto for Burnside Village) and i was slightly on edge due to the fact that my iPhone battery was sitting at 4%. anyone who owns an iPhone will be somewhat familiar with this feeling. it's not a good one at all!far too much of what i do on a day to day basis is on that phone. wondering why there was no battery left, i finally worked out that since i'm not getting any phone reception in the city (go figure) my phone was constantly searching for signal and by doing this it drained it's own battery. pretty much iPhone suicide if you ask meso, there i am, waiting on the million dollar leather couch at "BV" and my phone does the 'spinning wheel of death thing' and goes totally blank. i desperately press on the power button and it comes up with the 'empty battery, so you need to charge it you retard' symbolof course i was actually waiting for a call from my mate to tell me where we were going to meet... suddenly, i'm slightly of freaking out and running through my options in my head. at the same time i started to think, what would happen if i got locked in here overnight, would it be like the movie 'manequin'? would i be drinking cocktails and raiding the peter alexander store with my new plastic friends that only came to life around me?then 2 things happened, reality kicked in and so did my impeccable taste for decent movies so i had to scrap that idea quick sticks. i had to think of a plan to get in contact with my friend, to let her know where i was.idea one didn't last long (i would definitely get kicked out for making smoke signals) and idea two didn't last long either (i didn't have the budget for any cans and string), so what next?it took me some time to realise that all of my 'sensible' options involved a pay phone. considering i don't know ANY ONE'S number off by heart anymore, the payphone was pretty much useless to me. not to mention that i didn't have any change on me and that the phone would also be rife with germs from having had other peoples ears attached to it at some point. all of a sudden i was totally disgusted with the pay phone. i truly hated that pay phone, it really had fucked up EVERYTHING!to cut a long story short, i just sat there and my mate eventually rocked up - we went shopping and she had an iPhone charger at her place - so the night wasn't a total abortion after alli have too much faith in that phone. numbers, calendar, photos, maps, songs, pretty much everything! having the battery die on me turned me into a totally useless being, unable to properly think......"what the hell do i do next"the answer to that question is......"there is an app for that..."!aza
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