Well quite a few things have happened with the Misty Lady since our last posting. Let me bring you up to date.
First, the saga of the IPhone. I am now using IPhone number 4 since I purchased the first one at the beginning of May. I know, what the heck right? Anyway, phone number one suffered a cracked face when I was talking with the yacht center manager and a boat owner brushed by me heading into the office. My IPhone was bumped out of my hand and wouldn’t you know, instead of landing on the protected back, it fell face down on the gravel lot. CRACKED face lens,,,,
I foolishly took it to the Verizon store, expecting that they would immediately replace this new phone (paid 700 dollars for it). Was told that I had to file a claim with the insurance company, Assurian. Suffice to say a lot of back and forth, a remanufactured IPhone from the insurance company (was a piece of trash), and finally the acquisition of a new phone from the Apple store and their protection program ensued. During this process I let the phone store manager know that they were in danger of losing a 35 year customer. Since he was less than 35 years it evidently didn’t matter to him.
The replacement phone sent to me by the Verizon insurance program insurer was a REMANUFACTURERED device, not a new phone. So I paid them 199 dollars as the difference requirement (the phone wasn’t worth the deductible amount actually). I gave them a phone that was less than two weeks old and they gave me a piece of garbage with a failing internal component.
Now, I am on IPhone number 3 at this point!!! When the Yacht management indicated that we would haul the Misty Lady out and put her “on blocks” for the major tasks of removing and replacing our starboard engine, the yacht broker and I began the process of removing the lines, disconnecting the shore power and preparing to drive the boat out of the slip and into the haul out slip. While coming down the ladder on the afterdeck to get to the swim platform and remove the stern lines, I head a clunk noise and turned in time to see new IPhone number 3 bounce once and drop into the water off the stern of the Lady.
Was I upset? Of course. A thousand dollar’s worth of phone (not counting the original 700 for the first phone, was just swimming down toward the bottom of the slip. YIKES! Well you can imagine my consternation!! Had a couple of cards (not credit cards thankfully) in the phone cover (nice well constructed leather case). After we got the boat out and on blocks, I left to see what Apple was going to do for me. NOTHING unless I brought them the phone! Seriously? The fact that I informed him that the phone was in the water? Said he needed the phone, no matter what it’s condition was.
I purchased an ultra cheap phone at the Verizon store and I noted the store manager stayed very far away from me. I didn’t realize I was that angry but I guess it showed. One of the folks at the yacht center saw the new phone and asked about the Apple IPhone. When I told him the story, he said surely I wasn’t going to just leave the phone in the water. Told him that I really wasn’t ready to go swimming looking for that phone. He then introduced me to the benefits of DIVERS!!!
Gave me a phone number and when I called the guy actually came out that day! Wonders! We now refer to him as Diver Dude. He pulled out his equipment, put on his wet suit, tossed a “bell” anchor into the water at the spot I indicated the phone went in. He then put on the air mask and jumped in the water. After about five minutes, he started to surface and I though that he couldn’t find it when he actually popped out of the water and slapped my IPhone on the dock beside me. YEA!!! I wrote him a check for 150 dollars and took my soaked phone back to Apple. They actually gave me a brand new phone and helped me set it up. I had to take it back to Verizon to get the phone number reset from the cheap throwaway phone to the new IPhone and I was back in business. Now am using IPhone number FOUR!! Four IPhones within less than a month. Should have stayed with my old standby Android Samsung units! But also, now I know that if I ever get another cracked phone screen, I will go to Staples and pay them the fee to replace the screen instead of paying hundreds upon hundreds for a series of new phones.
But thanks to Diver Dude, we are back in business with our IPhone and IPad duo.
More later about the boat, but folks were telling me that I should relate the IPhone experience! Really?
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