I will confess to a weakness. I deal with big issues really well. I don’t do as well with “little things”.
This morning I was talking to my favorite Grasshopper on my cell phone while zipping around town in the car. When I finished the call, I kept the phone “on” just in case I might get a call. Yeah, right! Who is going to call me unless they want something? When I got home, I turned it off and then plugged it into a charger. I looked at the screen and it was dead. It usually says something like “charging in progress”. Nothing! So I disconnected everything and decided to turn the phone on (it was not dead, I was just recharging from lots of use). It would not come on. There you have it. My cell phone would not activate and it would not charge. Life was in the crapper.
So I went to do some chores around the house and set all the phone equipment on the kitchen counter. Later, I’d run over to my favorite Cellular One store and get a new battery.
One half hour later, I go to pick up the cell phone to take it with me to Cellular One and I tried to turn it on. It came on. My phone activated as though nothing happened. Then I decided to try charging the phone as I had earlier. Yep, charging began and 2 hours later completed it cycle. Everything now works.
My question is “what the hell caused the cell phone to go dormant”. I know there are some safety features in case of theft but I am not aware of a “dormant state”.
Now, I will have constant worry about when it will crap out again. Maybe it was a one-time thing. Then again maybe it was a sign.
I am not sure what significant sign might be coming through. Maybe it is to never use a cell phone again. Maybe the Cosmos is reminding me that it can cut off my communications with the world anytime it wants? Maybe someone in the Cosmos was just playing “head-games” with me.
My take on the whole thing. It is a defective phone. I will have trouble again. It was not a sign. It is a “little thing” and as I said, it will annoy the hell out of me.
Love,
Dad