Welp, not much has been happening. We are going to Vegas this weekend for my little brother's 21st. Holy shit I feel old. Being 5 years apart, our milestones are also 5 years apart and I remember turning 21 like it was yesterday. Time flies! I got a new car a few weeks ago, thanks to my awesome husband. I told him what I wanted and he just came home with it one day. How cool is that? Pretty damn cool. Oh! I do have an amazing story to share. This happened to me today. Bear with me or bare with me? Meh, whatever. I don't get sappy often so enjoy :/
This morning I woke up, reached over to my nightstand to grab my phone (it doubles as my alarm clock) and I couldn't feel it! So I picked my head up off my pillow and look over and its no where to be found. At first I thought "Oh shit, some little phone bandit snuck into our house, up into our bedroom and jacked my awesome iphone 4! Well, props to him for not waking me up in the process, he earned it." Then I realized I was still half asleep and I sat up, started to look for it and found it. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OH MY FUCKING......FUUUUUUCK!"
Oh it was there. Inside my water cup. That just so happened to be half full of water. I took it out and of course it didn't work. How the hell did that happen you ask? I have no fucking clue. But I was pissed. Literally 2 days ago, we canceled our home phone because we never, ever used it. So now, I was stuck at my house, with an 8.5 month old and no fucking phone. So I run downstairs, e-mail Mike and told him to call me on Skype. Thank god for modern technology! What ever did people do before cell phones? No seriously.
So we decide to take it to the Apple store to see if the geniuses at the Genius Bar can do anything to save it. I was so devastated. Its no secret that cell phones are more than cell phones these days. It doubled as my camera & video camera. I had tons of pictures and videos of Jackson on there. I am also one of those people who does not back up my phone often, so I had no clue what I had saved and what I hadn't.
Cried the whole way to the mall, walking through the mall, and even in the Apple store. Our associates name was Tyler. He was this cute little hobbit look alike. He explained what happens when the inside of the phone gets wet and then said those words I did not want to hear "there is nothing you can do except replace it." I started bawling. Not just crying, bawling. Side note- I also started my period today so you can imagine what a peach I was to be around. He explains to us that there is an upside. "An upside? A fucking upside to this? Well Mr. Glass half full, do tell!" He explained us that a brand new iphone 4 would be $600-$700 to replace, but because my phone was less than a year old and he could somehow work this into the warranty, he would only charge us the upgrade price of $199. "Sold!" We were elated. A few hundred bucks and still plenty of money leftover for Vegas.
So Tyler goes to get the phone and I again, start with the water works. I just could not control myself. Those are images I could never get back. I never thought how precious those moments really were until I didn't have them anymore. Tyler comes back with my new phone, and I'm still crying my eyes out but I am trying to keep my composure because now the entire store is staring at me, asking what's wrong, and probably thinking Mike beats me.
Tyler: Danielle, raise your right hand
Me: (Raises right hand)
Tyler: Do you promise and solemnly swear to not drop your new phone in water or at all?
Me: I promise to not drop my phone in water or at all.
Tyler: Do you promise I won't see you back here with a damaged phone anytime soon?
Me: I promise (starting to giggle a little...)
Tyler: Well then, here is your brand new iphone, on me
Me: WHAT? OH MY GOD! ARE YOU SERIOUS? NO! No, I can't accept that. That is too nice
Tyler: I have a 5 year old son. I did the same thing to mine a few years ago and I was devastated. Anything I can do to make this situation better for someone else, I'd be glad to.
And there you have it. Some random Apple employee I have never met in my life, out the kindness of his heart, did the most amazing thing just because he didn't want to see someone else go through what he already did. Well, it was the most amazing thing to us. Who seriously does that? I cannot thank him enough, he seriously made my day. No my whole fucking week!
Now to the really good part. Oh, you thought that was it? Not quite silly....
I get home, all excited but still a little bummed about not being able to save my pictures. I sync my phone and my entire phone is restored!!!!!!!! HOORAY!! I got all my pics, my videos, my contacts, my calendar, everything I needed. I only lost a few things from the last few days. I cried, again. But these were most definitely tears of happiness & relief.
I don't know what I did to be having such good karma right now, but oh man, am I ever counting my lucky stars. So thank you Tyler for making this day amazing for me, it wouldn't have been the same without you.
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind
action leads to another. Good example is followed.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all
directions, and the roots spring up and make new
trees. The greatest work that kindness does to
others is that it makes them kind themselves.
-Amelia Earhart
