Cheap Cellphones Are My Friend

K has a particularly tortured relationship with cellphones. The first cellphone fell out of her pocket and was run over by a car. This was replaced by the second cellphone, which vanished when it was left behind at a restaurant. The *third* cellphone toppled over in the swamp and sank. (Ok, actually, it managed to survive long enough that it stopped being a working phone of its own accord.) The fourth cellphone fell out of her pocket and broke the screen today.

The quoted cost for the screen repair was $150. A new phone (last year's model) from Amazon will cost $129.99 before tax.

Cellphone number five has been ordered. All things considered, I should order a bombproof case for it, but I have been informed that will be more likely to cause it to fall out of her pocket.

At which point, the Maine West Marching Band will probably step on it. Repeatedly.

And that is why my children get cheap phones...