Mein cellphone ist kaput

Drove over to Santa Monica yesterday to go rollerblading along the beach. Someone told me there’s a mall on 4th street where you can park free for 3 hours, and I wanted to try it out. After I skated, I was skipping around in the surf for a while. I wasn’t really intending to go for a dip, but a surprisingly powerful swell tripped me up. (Later a lifeguard was yelling at people not to go too deep, because there was a storm surge warning in effect, or something.) Then I realized I still had my cellphone in my pocket. My cellphone is now history. If you try to turn it on, the screen flickers piteously then goes dark. If you plug it in, it vibrates continously. What a pain in the ass. I have no other phone here, and I already programmed everyone’s numbers into it. Then I was stuck in traffic for two hours coming home (a 20 minute drive), watching in agony as my $30-a-tank gas burned away into the air. So overall, that trip was less than a total success.