Tommy Collison

As you might have read in my iPhone post on Nov. 2nd I recently ordered an iPhone off eBay from a guy in Ohio. I decided to ship it to Patrick in Vancouver cos the costs would be lower. That was grand, I paid my €283 and he said he’d ship it in the morning. Pa was coming home Wednesday so he’d bring it home with him.

The guy ships it and I follow its progress via mail tracking. It spends 3 or so days in customs and finally arrives in the Canadian post office yesterday. Now, yesterday was the 11th. 11/11 is a special day because it’s the day WWI ended. Yesterday was the 90th anniversary and the day is commonly known as “Remembrance Day” in the US/Canada.

It’s a holiday.

There isn’t any post on holidays

Patrick leaves Vancouver iPhone-less.

It’s not reeeeeally bad. I mean, the iPhone is (touch wood, throw salt over left shoulder and turn 180 degrees clockwise*) still working and everything. It’s only that it’s in Vancouver. It’s a small matter of another 3-4 weeks for it to be shipped by Patrick to Ireland. It’s not bad by a long shot. Damien Mulley put it perfectly.

Christmas moved back a few days, not postponed

That sums it up perfectly. I mean, the iPhone isn’t broken, or anything. It’s purely delayed. Maybe “iPhone woes” is too strong a title. I’m not going to throw a tantrum just because I can’t have my iPhone now! or anything.

Maybe it’s Karma

This isn’t my first baby. Uh.. I mean iPhone. I inherited Patrick’s first one. A 4 GB first generation one that I owned for all of X, where X is a number of days countable on one’s fingers only. That had many mishaps at my hands, from purposely upgrading software, knowingly locking it, thinking I’d be able to unlock it to eventually dropping it 4 feet onto tiles and hitting the side of the screen, causing 1/4 of the screen to be fuzzy.

I like to call this state “comatose”.

The iPhone is actually fully working. Still makes calls and texts. The keyboard works 100% (even the part obscured by the fuzz). I don’t use it purely because the fuzziness is on the left side, which is incoming texts. If it was on the right, I’d be using it. Doesn’t matter if you can’t read your own, reading the ones you receive only matters.

Mulley managed to get his fixed (although his actually didn’t turn on) in a place in Dublin. I decided to check them, because if my 4 GB iphone was fixable, I could always sell the iPhone on eBay or give it to Patrick. I rang them up and yes, they do iPhone repairs. I explained my iPhone’s comatose state and asked if it was fixable. Yes, however, they’d need a part that I’d need to order. I asked what price. Over 100.

Nahh mate!

*Old 18th century theatrical superstitions