It happened the way it happens to all unsuspecting people, their phones break. In the midst of me going to make a jamming playlist, my phone decides it does not want to open my music app. OK. No biggie. I’ll just turn off my phone and restart it. RIGHT? Except your phone never turns back on and you're thrust head first into the unknown. Living in a world without a cell phone. Who is trying to reach you? Are your friends going out tonight? They will be, WITHOUT YOU. Is the cute boy from English FINALLY going to text you? Who knows. Well, I’ll never know. His friends will know me as the girl who broke cute boy from English class’s heart in half. And we can’t have that. It’s not only the heart palpitations from being unable to see who is trying to reach you, it’s the blindness to the world. There was no checking Twitter, no checking Facebook, no seeing any type of news. Hell, World War 3 could’ve started in my technological blackness and I would’ve had no idea.

I started to think about what I did wrong. My baby has never been dropped or fully submerged in water. This was so unfair; I treated my phone with such dignity and respect and this is how I get repaid. In a fit of anger, I hit every (all 4) buttons on the little piece of hardware. Lo and behold, it flickered on. There they were: all my apps like I had never even touched them and even some new messages. As I go to click on my messages, I realized none of my apps would load. What kind of sick mockery is my phone playing on me? It was not long before the darkness was back. At work I enlisted the help of my coworkers, who all repeatedly asked if my phone was charged (it was) and chalked it up as a loss.

Sitting down with my computer, it was time for some hardcore Googling. Then I heard a peculiar noise. “Ba Boop.” It can’t be! But, oh, it was! Siri! Coming to help me in my time of desperate need. I pleaded, “Oh, Siri, what do I do? My screen won’t work!” And Siri, that stupid son of a b*tch, said, “Sorry, Big Booty Ho, but I have no internet connection.” You’ve got to be kidding me. After contemplating launching my phone through the window into the wild, I got the Google answer that solved all my problems. Just hold down the power button for three seconds and then hold down the home button. Easy enough, but would it work…? Sure enough, the Apple logo appeared and all my problems had been solved. Or so I thought. Me having no phone for less than 24 hours made me realize that perhaps the bigger problem is my dependency on technology, but that thought lasted no more than the few seconds it took for my Twitter feed to update.