A modern drama
I know we’re into March now, but it’s not too late to tell a New Years story, right? I mean I’m still mentally in last September.
I decided to be spontaneous for New Years and buy tickets to visit family in South Carolina. Fly out Saturday morning, fly back Sunday evening, whirlwind trip.
Maybe not my smartest move, and it was definitely dicey at times with delays and weather. But, it all worked out and was fantabulous time.
The real fun, however, started the night before. Picture it, New Years Eve, 2021.
There’s no streamers, noise makers, funny party hats or popping champagne bottles in this story.
The night before my very early flight, I had driven up to Indy, got checked in virtually for my flight, all was well. I was chatting with a friend on Snapchat, sitting on the couch and watching TV. And then it happened.
My phone glitched unlike anything I have seen happen before.
25 percent.
At first, I couldn’t do the usual swipe-up function to change apps. I was stuck in Snapchat land. Sure, there are worse places to be stuck in a phone, but still.
When I tried to lock it, it was slow to react. Then, it started throwing SOS signals to my emergency contacts. No restarting, just a shrill alarm. Yikes.
18 percent.
I tried to stay calm, convince myself this was just a fluke that would pass. Try not to think about the fact that I was going to travel the next morning and I needed my phone for my 3 a.m. alarm and myticketwasonmyphoneohmygodmyphone!
Yeah, no panicking there. None. Nada. Zilch.
11 attempted restarts and SOS alerts later, I decided to just let my phone lose all battery and hope to God it would be okay after that.
15 percent.
Since I couldn’t do anything but message my friend and turn on the flashlight (don’t ask why I could do this, I have no idea), I did all I could to waste the battery.
Eight percent.
DIE ALREADY.
Four, three, two...
All this excitement and it wasn’t even midnight yet. It did eventually die, and after some time in cellular timeout and a nice charge, things went back to normal.
I still have no earthly idea what happened or why it happened, and thankfully it hasn’t happened again.
But like I’ve said before, technology doesn’t really like me.
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