MY CELL PHONE!!

Phones and lawn mowers do NOT go well together.  


Tonight while mowing (with the riding lawn mower)as usual I carry my phone with me...well, I dropped it, and yes, you guessed it-ruined it with the blades!(blades cut things!)


BUT, as it hit the ground, I hit the brakes (yes-- for those of you who have never driven a riding lawn mower, they do have brakes)  I missed running over it!!!  I thought, Yeah!  But that thought did not last long...


 the part that covers where the cut grass is thrown out from the mower hit the phone-but did not run over it- and since I did not run over it-there sat the phone-ok---in one piece!!  


So after hitting the brakes, I thought, ok- I did not run over it, so now I need to get off from the mower and get it.  


This is when I should have shut off the mower.  But no, to 'save time' I decided to turn off the blades, and put it in 'park' by locking the brakes, and that would make it safe for 'me'.




BIG mistake!  When I turned off the blades, that action -caused the phone to actually be sucked into the blades as I shut them off!  Ahhhhhhhhh!  Oh nuts. What can I do?  


Stuff happens...makes me a bit nervous that clients cant get ahold of me...but it is only over night, and they can call my home phone.


  Scott, being the wonderful husband that he is, also put my sims card (which its a miracle that it survived) in his cell phone for the night....


Now to shop for a phone that I had no intention of buying (at least for about 6 months)...I had thought that I would someday change out that old phone since it is about 3 years old and getting pretty worn out with all the use I give it... --but...I HAD wanted to pass that one to Scott, as his phone is even more worn out ---


So now, here we are, needing to get a new phone.  sigh.


As a side note:  I often see people allowing their children or grand children to ride on the mower with them.  I NEVER do that, and I will NEVER allow that-this shows me how dangerous a mower is!  The blade action PULLED my phone in!  what if that is your childs arm or leg?  For those of you who 'give your babies a ride on the mower' STOP IT!!! LOVE THEM ENOUGH TO STOP doing that!! Please!