I have burnt a lot of funds purchasing phones. The first phone I used was a Tecno Y2. A friend of my mom dashed it to me after a lot of pestering. I remember the night the phone got spoiled - it won't charge and was just going on and off automatically, I cried. I was phoneless for a long time until it was my final year in secondary school. I decided that I was going to get one. I did a lot of manual labor (visited construction sites, worked in people's farms, amongst other menial jobs) to come up with N15,0000 to get a used phone from a friend. It was an Itel A36. Finally, I had my phone and I was happy. It served me long until a friend gave me an iPhone 6. so, I decided to give the Itel phone to my brother as it made no sense having two phones while he had none. It was my first year in Uni so I was doing a lot of night reading in school and during one of my night reading sessions, the iPhone fell off of the table and it was gone. I was sad once again as I had no money to get a new one. The same friend who gave me the iPhone came to my rescue again. This time, he gave me an S8 which got lost during the crossover to 2024 while coming back from the church and shooting bangers on the street. A minute ago it was right there in my pocket and the next minute, it wasn't. As of then, I was already introduced to the web3 space so i got an infinix hot 7 plus or so, the next day. This served me very well until I got a Note 20 Ultra. Half a million naira on a phone. It was quite a huge feeling because the previous year I was struggling to come up with N15,000 for one. Again, I was happy - but not for too long. Out of curiosity, which of course killed the cat, and needed to prove to my friends that the device was high end, I decided to test its water resistance and it ended badly for me. Part of the screen stopped responding...

My friend I went to play with saw me laughing and asked me why I was laughing and I showed him the phone. The display was gone. Everywhere, green and eventually, all blank. My friend asked why I was laughing and I replied, "what to do?" Life was way “too beautiful”, still is, so i couldn't get the phone repaired until a month later. I had to fall back to the Note20 ultra and as of this time, the screen was completely gone. I was able to find a workaround. I ran a script that mirrored my screen to my pc and also made use of the Samsung bixby. Finally got the 15PM repaired and the first post I made on my status was "hey bixby, turn on iPhone." only those around me during the course of that 1 month got the context and we all laughed over how terrible it was. Well, you did think that was the end but life was not done messing with me. Just like many other persons, I love listening to music while having my bath and was doing so one beautiful morning when I noticed the phone lying upwards on the toilet tank. In a bid to prevent water from splashing on it, I quickly flipped it, with little foam in my hand. If I had known that 0.5s of making contact with the phone, using a soapy hand, would have damaged it again, I would have left it or something, but I never knew. I finished up with my bathing and the screen developed a fault again. It was just a month and 2 days of repairing it. I was devastated and had to fall back to the Note20 Ultra (my fallen hero). Two days later, the screen came up again but with lines this time. I laughed over it and labeled it “the chart is going up, we are in profit” in one of my status updates on WhatsApp. I knew it wasn't going to serve me for too long but I was happy, still. After a few weeks, ink started spreading on the screen and here we are now.