iPhone

My boyfriend and I went to Vancouver last week to celebrate the 2010 Winter Olympics while visiting my family and friends. One night we went out for dinner with my childhood friend and during dinner, boyfriend checked his iPhone non-stop to check on the male figure skating score & status. The event is somewhat important because Torontonian Patrick Chan is our medal podium hopeful for the night.

Childhood friend and I talked all night and was glad that boyfriend had the iPhone to keep him entertained. After dinner, childhood friend was driving us back to my parent's condo. Parent's condo is in tight security where you need a fob to open every door and you cannot activate the elevator to go to your resident floor without the fob. So I asked for the iPhone I share with my boyfriend to call my mom to come downstairs to "pick us up". I can't seem to turn the iPhone on and boyfriend confesses that the battery had died while he was keeping track of the Olympic.

Now, problems.

1. Since I'm out of town, I don't have anyone's phone number because they are all programmed on the iPhone
2. Childhood friend doesn't have my parents or my brother's phone numbers
3. My parents and brother cannot contact me because our phone is dead and they don't have my childhood friend's phone number
4. We cannot get to my parents' condo even if we tailgate someone through the main door because we still need a fob to activate the elevator to go to my parents' floor
5. My childhood friend is the only person in the world who does not own an iPhone or an iPod (even my illiterate Vietnamese mom has an iPod) therefore she does not have a charger we can borrow
6. When iPhone dies from battery exhaustion, it doesn't have any backup battery to allow you to turn it on just for one second to grab a phone number

I simply cannot believe that I can't go home because my boyfriend killed the iPhone by checking progress on Male Figure Skating. We ended up going to Best Buy and steal their electricity from the iPhone display. We suspiciously stood around the iPhone display for 15 minutes because the iPhone won't turn on unless if it has at least 10% battery.

Note to self: Do not share an iPhone with a boy ever again.

Patrick Chan did not make it to the podium at the end. But at least there is a happy ending to this story - no one slept on the street that night.