SubTypical

My cell phone is used so much I need chargers in my bedroom, living room, the office and in the car. I didn’t expect it to make it through its life cycle without getting a few nicks and scratches. I didn’t expect to be careless enough to have the glass shatter to pieces either.

But one unfortunate night not too long ago, leaving the Braves game after drowning my sorrows in a loss, I reached for my phone to send out a tweet, and witnessed firsthand what happens when glass meets concrete. It wasn’t a pretty sight.

When I first upgraded to the iPhone 4, I wasn’t interested in getting a “bumper” to fix any antennagate problems, and I didn’t want to get a case. Some will argue that with the assortment of cases available in the market, you’re able to customize the look of your phone to make it yours. There’s nothing wrong with that argument, and I agree. I also think that you should be able to keep your phone free of any “customizations” if you want and keep the look and feel that the phone had when you first took it out of the box. Without worrying about it getting damaged by using it. Granted, my liquid-fueled mishap wasn’t an activity the phone was intended to be used for, but you get the point.

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