Its been a heckuva day

[Diana]

Good news/bad news:

Good news! Got the oil changed on my car.

Bad news! The inspection I asked for returned a few items like glued-together side lights, bad wiring... which I'll have to take back to the repair place to get fixed, since it should be under warranty. But I asked for them to check it over, so...

Good news! They checked over my car.

Bad news! I lost my phone (or misplaced it...?) My watch bleeped at me when it lost the phone signal.

Good news! I found it!!! Yay me!!

Bad news. It was in the middle of the highway. I saw a truck run over the remains before I was able to get back to it. The only thing I can think is that I stupidly left it on the top of the car and then promptly left. It made it to about 60 mph before it left the top of the car, though.

Good news. It is wasn't stolen, and it could be replaced. I went to the Apple Store (since I despise AT&T, which is my carrier; I must figure out who to go with, but I have 3 lines and one cellular watch I have to cover (me, my partner, and my mom) but that's a post for another day) and got a low-end iPhone13.

Bad news. The AS wasn't able to get my phone activated, because AT&T have has done some *stuff* regarding security, which I haven't signed up to nor done do so the AS wasn't able to do that.

Good news. The AS was able to transfer everything else over to the new phone.

Bad news. I still had to deal with AT&T.

Good news, it wasn't that bad.

I now have my new phone, fully covered with Apple Care.

And the kicker? If I still had AppleCare on the old phone, even though it was an X, they would have covered it for $99. As it is, it was a LOT more than that.

So the moral here kids is: Don't put your phone on the roof of the car and forget about it. It hurts.

That is all.....

Edit: striking out additional words.

[Speedy]

I feel your pain.

Put it on the hood right in front of the driver’s seat. Always without fail.

[Carnos Jax]

LOL, reminds me of something my late father did. He left the house with his iPhone on the car's trunk. When he later came home, he was asking where his phone was. After doing some sleuthing, i came to the conclusion it must've been on his car when he left the house. So I traced his route, and found it on the side of the highway on ramp. Fortunately it was still in it's case and lying in the grass.

[vision63]

Your day was a roller-coaster ride from beginning to end!!!

[steve...]

I once drove down a really steep hill, made a right turn and went another block in my VW Bug before a guy started yelling and waving his arms at me. I had left a stack of three library books on the roof and they never fell off.

[mrbigstuff]

In famous stuff left on the roof stories, that's how I lost my favorite fedora. I noticed an older guy looking at me funny when I drove down the neighboring street. As I thought back on it, he was probably eyeing the hat and figuring where he could snag it. Dang! I loved that hat!

[Ombligo]

Don't feel bad, it was only a phone on top of the car when you drove off.

My brother-in-law did that with the baby seat - the baby was in it (he was unharmed, can't say the same for my BIL)

[SteveG]

and it's not only the roof...

[Lew Zealand]

mrbigstuff wrote:
In famous stuff left on the roof stories, that's how I lost my favorite fedora. I noticed an older guy looking at me funny when I drove down the neighboring street. As I thought back on it, he was probably eyeing the hat and figuring where he could snag it. Dang! I loved that hat!

My Brother.

This is how I lost my favorite fedora, too. I even tried to weigh it down with a banana but when I arrived at my destination some 50MPH and 4 miles away, neither were to be seen anywhere. It was my dad's fedora too, an old one. He, eh, never knew what became of his hat...

[Buzz]

No fedora, but back in the mortgage biz, circa mid 80's, when lit'l bro was original Product Manager for AppleCare, long before "i" anything Apple; I was having a contentious situation concerning a real estate deal gone bad. THAT was the file that was on the roof of the '76 Buick Regal when I drove off. Recovered a lot of it..... seems timely now; ....why, you ask? Because it happened on Ventura Blvd. in Encino.

Diana's heckuva day is still the best/worst "heckuva", and a darn good read to boot.
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