 |
I taciturnly never have the nerves of
condoning guys who have smart phones that they never take care of. What is it
with people clutching beat-up cellphones with screens so cracked that
spider-web-like patterns creep across the glass. Jeso, your phone is the only
tech gizmo that people can see owing to the fact it is a priced possession that
you have to display wherever you are and whenever you go.
So many people nowadays
own phones with cracked screens as if it is a trend that has gone viral.
Apparently there is that one person whom you know who can repair that hideous
crack but never does so. I know of many guys who have always said that they will
repair the crack but as they say in Swahili, “Usioziba ufa utajenga nyuta.”
So the other day I was in
the gas station refueling my car and I decided to inquire for the till number
since I had no hard cash on me and I wanted to make the payment. I was with my
lil sister whose phone apparently had also cracked. She lowered the car glass window and
the station attendant saw her cracked phone screen.
Immediately the dude
asked why her screen was still responsive to touch while his phone was not able
to respond ever since it had cracked. My sister is sometimes brisk and gauche
with such kind of peeps owing to her nature, some of my friends also
told me I had that demeanor till I became tactful and diplomatic
with words. She told the guy point plank that his was a Chinko phone and as
such could not compare with her windows phone. I don’t like windows phones
though.
Of course the guy became
red faced but had to soldier on since letting go of an argument like that could
have shown how debased he would have been.
Cracked smart phone
screens are not only obnoxious, they are irritating. In fact I usually think
people who own such phones are slapdash in their general lifestyle. I have
never been a victim of cracked phones. The biggest culprits I have realized are
women. Most women have phones with smashed screens. This is typical of mothers
with tiny tots who have just discovered the knack of holding objects or those
who are adept but when irate drop such objects like it is cinder.
Men are also not left out
either. If truth be told, most of this guys who frequent drinking dens and
those who binge till late are also culpable victims. They usually lose their senses but not phones ending
up possessing broken screen phones. Most of these culprits habitually forget
that they need to take care of their phones. As such they frequently break the
glass screen and never bother to repair. It is sometimes ignoble of such men to
spend lots of cash entertaining friends but they can’t use a fifth of what they spend on freebies to repair the cracked phone.
If you can’t repair your
phone, then hide it from public view. This is analogous to driving a wreckage
of a vehicle on the road. No one will tell you that it is not pleasing but it
will show subtly in their face. Some people will grimace as they will twist
their mouths either left or right producing the ‘mschew’ sound if you listen
keenly. Try owning a cracked screen.
Unfortunately the
services of iCracked are still not available in Kenya. Plus they are limited to
Apple and Samsung Phones while most Kenyans own Techno phones. The tech experts
and engineers who work at the site are well versed with repair of smashed
screens and they charge an arm and a leg for the service.
A poll conducted in
London among those in the 18-24 age group consider damaging a phone as much as
a disruption to their daily lives as being struck down with the flu.
Don’t these guys with
smashed screens find it galling reading texts or posting photos on instagram
and facebook super blurry? Isn't the screen’s razory shards a distraction or is it that
they are used to it that way and have henceforth become so accustomed to the
extent they can juggle things in a strange twist only synonymous to them? This
reminds me of those who knew where the mobile phone keys were in the event one had either qwerty
or the normal old school phones. Such chaps would accurately type words in their
phones and send while sitting in a lecture hall without being noticed.
For young guys probably
out of high school or freshmen or sophomores, a cracked gives some sort of
street cred. It is like the unshaven faces they spot, unwashed hair they keep
or ripped or low-ridding jeans they adorn. If this is a trend then I probably
ran out of tweets to twit.
I read in some gutter
that ‘Apple specifically came up with an already broken screen custom made for
college students who had a penchant for one. ’ I don’t know how true the rumour
was as I have never seen such phones.
Whether a cracked phone
is a form of self-expression or accidentally got knocked off a table or slipped
from the hands, I still can’t stomach the sight of such phones. I know
that cracked phones are expensive to repair but that does not mean you still
walk around with one if you can repair it. However fragile a phone is, try to
keep it look like a gadget worthy of carrying around.
SITUONANE.
