After a hard day, I came home with my phone in my pocket - my shiny, lovely, pretty iPhone 4.  This has my whole life on it.  I'm not sure I could function if I didn't have my phone with me all the time.  Its my phone, calendar, music player, radio, remote access to my computers; basically everything.

So as everyone does at some point, I felt the call of nature.  But before I could answer that call, the worst possible thing happened.  With a loud bang, I looked into the toilet bowl to see my phone under water...  The yelp I screamed out made my wife run to the bathroom thinking i'd injured myself.  I explained that it was worse than that - I had just killed my iPhone!!

After fishing it out and trying to dry it to hopefully save the little black glass block, I resigned myself to the fact that I had murdered the little thing.  Luckily while I was doing that, Sarah was on the phone to the insurance company who after much sarcasm decided that they would indeed cover it, although I had to send it off to show them that I had indeed killed it.

Realising that I had lost my arm, Sarah said I could go and buy a new one - She's so understanding with me and gadgets.  Off to Meadowhall we went.  Arriving at the Apple store I was helpfully told that they "had just sold the last one".  This was going from bad to worse by the minute.  Scouting around it seamed that there wasn't an iPhone for sale in the whole shopping mall.

I bright idea sparked into my mind at 6:30pm.  Lets go to Manchester!!  So off to Manchester we drove.

We arrived there just gone 8pm to heavy rain (If anyone from Manchester reads this, could you just tell me if you have any other weather than rain?).  Off to the Apple Store there.  Well they had just sold out I was told.  "Have you tried Sheffield?"  After sarcastically explaining that I wish I had thought of that we trundled off to the 02 store to get a 'droid phone to tied me over until I could get an iPhone 4.

The guy there was most helpful and after he stopped smiling over my misfortune, he made me happy once more.

"We've got one left.  Do you want it"

It was the best thing I've ever heard from a guy!!

So now, I have a new iPhone, have learnt the hard way not to take my phone to the bathroom with me, and I also have a cheque making its way to me from the insurance company.