If something can go wrong, it will go wrong
It hasn't even been a week since I got my new phone and something terrible has already happened, haha. It seems like a joke, but that's really my luck… It's not the first time this has happened to me; it's like life conspires to make everything go wrong. Yesterday, my son got his phone dirty and wanted to clean it. He thought the best thing to do was take baby wipes and repeatedly wipe the screen. These wipes are literally VERY wet. I didn't see him do it because I was cleaning my room at the time. Later that night, he told me, "Mommy, my phone is acting crazy," and I was like, "What?" When I checked, it said it was charging when it wasn't.
When I removed the case to get a better look, I found the phone was SOAKED IN WATER, water from the baby wipes. There was so much water that when I separated the case from the phone, it dripped onto my legs. That's when I realized that was the problem, and the screen also started to detach. I could see the bottom of the screen lifting up, and it began to show lines very similar to those on my old phone. I thought it was a terrible joke that after spending so much money on a new pone for me, my son damaged his phone, putting me in a difficult situation where I wish I could buy him one, but it was too hard to afford my own.
But luckily, my father-in-law told me he had a spare cell phone for my son, but he needs to clean it first and will probably bring it to me tomorrow… That put me a little more at ease until today when another disaster happened, haha. My son came to me and said the TV box remote didn't work. When I checked the batteries, I realized it was WET INSIDE. He did the same thing as with the cell phone, but this time he filled it with cologne. I don't understand what goes through his head. It's like we've taken 400 steps back and are now three years old again. I was so annoyed that I still have a migraine, and obviously, I grounded him. He spent today incredibly bored. Basically, he condemned himself to a day of total boredom since he damaged his own phone and even the TV remote.
I tried to clean and dry it as best I could, but it was impossible. I tried to open it completely, but it won't budge. I looked for this model of remote in my country to see if I could replace it, but it seems it's no longer available, so I'll probably have to buy a completely new TV stick. At least that's cheaper.
I even bought new batteries, naively thinking that maybe the batteries were damaged by the water but the remote control might still work, and no… It didn't work.
My scolding was quite severe, so I have faith that tomorrow he WON'T DAMAGE ANYTHING ELSE. I already explained explicitly that water, liquids, etc., damage things. I even think he was incredibly lucky that the phone didn't explode in his face yesterday. I still don't understand how that phone withstood the water for so many hours, because yes, quite a bit of time passed before we realized the phone was getting damaged.
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