The Power Of the Pearl

So I lost my T-Mobile Blackberry Pearl this morning. I knew I brought it home from work but I couldn't find it. So I decided, of course, to call it! I heard no ring.

This was odd. I knew I had it at home, so I figured I must have fallen off my waist in the car. So I go down into the basement, and into my garage. I see a crack of light in the garage, which itself is unusual. The garage door didn't close properly--not uncommon with my damn garage door, always flipping out because a speck of dust is under it so the little detector makes the door go up again.

Anyway, I go to inspect the crack of light before finding my phone. Lo-and-behold, the phone just happened to fall off my waist as I was walking around the car, landed RIGHT in the center of the garage door and I didn't notice. Then, I must have clicked the button to bring the door down and it pinned the phone between the concrete and the door.

Now, I just replaced this phone a few months ago when I dropped it and broke the volume control (the button was jammed in and wouldn't let anything else function). Fearing the same fate I quickly opened the garage door and ran for the phone. Flipping up the case I looked at my precious screen...

Little bastard still worked! As a matter of fact, I had a voicemail from the government asking to talk to me about stragglerj and his clearance stuff. Now, it's not 100% perfect, there is a faint blue outline on the screen from the clips pressure on the front panel. Given it sat partially outside and partially inside under the weight of a 2-car length garage door I'd say not too shabby.

Man, my luck with mobile phones is horrible.

CodeMonkey