{"id":219,"date":"2010-05-25T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T00:15:33","slug":"the-5-stages-of-grief-a-tale-of-a-broken-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-5-stages-of-grief-a-tale-of-a-broken-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Stages of Grief – A Tale of a Broken iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

If you had asked me what I thought of cell phones a few years ago, I would have probably said that I hated them, and they are a waste of time and money. I have since gotten an iPhone and have loved it very much. I have become accustomed to certain apps that I would now find difficult to live without one. Please read on for the full story\u2026<\/p>\n

On Friday, it was my wife’s birthday. Her iPhone has had a non-functioning home button for month’s now (no longer under warranty), and I thought it was time fix it for her. Money is too tight to go out an buy a new one, but I have taken apart an iPhone before, and figured that would be just the thing as an added birthday present. I also thought I would replace her glass while I was at it, seeing as she got a crack when she dropped the phone once.<\/p>\n

Once I got it all apart, I started to take the glass off of the LCD when suddenly I heard a *snap*. My worst fears were confirmed as I looked at the screen.<\/p>\n

Knowing that it would be terrible to tell my sweetheart that I broke her phone on her birthday, I proceeded to take mine apart in an effort to give her my screen, and make restitution. This was done, and she now has a fully functioning iPhone again. I however now have nothing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>First, I had a bout of Denial<\/strong>. I thought to myself, oh, the screen isn’t that badly damaged, I can live with it.<\/div>\n
<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Then hit Anger<\/strong> when I realized that the device wouldn’t display anything on the screen, and blamed my fumble-fingers for their blunder.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Bargaining<\/strong> occurred when I thought I could just not spend as much money on groceries this month to afford a new screen.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Depression<\/strong> hit when I realized that I wouldn’t be able to fix it. Living without Email and other useful apps messed up my routine. It was just annoying.<\/div>\n
<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Finally, Acceptance<\/strong> that it was too late, and that life is too short to worry about electric gizmos.<\/div>\n

Now I am getting along fine just waiting for an opportunity to get another one some day.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>My ever generous boss sold me his old iPhone. Once again I am reunited with this device that saves me so much time and performs so many useful functions. Yay!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you had asked me what I thought of cell phones a few years ago, I would have probably said that I hated them, and they are a waste of time and money. I have since gotten an iPhone and have loved it very much. I have become accustomed to certain apps that I would … Continue reading The 5 Stages of Grief – A Tale of a Broken iPhone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coastalvectors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}