That's a new one

It's suddenly rainy season in Portland, so I'm suddenly wearing a long raincoat when I get a ride with someone. I stuck my cell phone in my pocket. When I got home, I noticed the outer screen (yes, I still have a flip phone) was partly blank, partly cracked under the outer covering, and still working over in one corner. The inside works fine. I stared at it for a while, and then remembered ever so gently shutting the car door on a corner of my coat, and then readjusting.

Oops. Never done that before, in nearly 15 years of cell phone ownership! (Maybe it helps not to have owned a car for 11 of those years.)

Turns out I can get a newer version of the same phone for $15 from Consumer Cellular. Yay. Seems like a small price to pay for that mistake! I thought about upgrading to something with easier texting, but it's not worth $100 to me for an Android phone. Sounds like too much work to have another computer to maintain.

Pretty amazing that the phone still works and only the outer screen is (mostly) non-functional.