Last week’s rains were very much welcomed by Bangaloreans. I thoroughly enjoyed getting wet. It was fun riding back home from work in the rain. Riding in the rain is a little dangerous, but well, it’s summer and the rains are meant for us to cool down. Unfortunately all this cost me something. My cell phone went dead.

Now I am sure that it did not fall into water or something like that, but the service center guy told me with some element of shock that my phone was ‘waterlogged’. He even had the gall to ask me if I dropped it in water. If I remember right, it was in a pouch, which did get a little damp, but he made it sound like I dived into a pool with my phone. Aaarrgggh…dealing with these service center guys is always a pain. Be it a bike, a phone or a T.V. The handset costed me only 2k and change, and this guy tells me that the service may cost me around 1k. It’s been hardly 6 month since I purchased this handset, and I am not ready to spend 1k on it.

So as of now I am un-mobile. I am pissed. Not because I am un-mobile, but because getting wet has costed me my phone. Why can’t they make phones that are water resistant. Hell, why can’t the service center guys replace whatever component they need to replace, and bill it to the big rich company that manufactured it (the phone’s anyway under warranty)? Why is there no corruption in the service center industry? Damn them all