Part 1: Glad not to be me

Over the summer while I was leaning against the stairs trying to install a banister, I accidentally cracked the screen of my iphone.  The phone was working, but over time the spider web got worse, tiny pieces of glass started to fall out and it began getting dangerous for my kids if they got their hands on it.  So, I took it in to get fix.  The guy says, that it wouldn't be a problem, its a pretty easy fix.  He kept my phone so that when the new glass came in, he could fix it right away.  A week goes by, and the part was still not in. So I take my phone back because I needed it that weekend.   A couple more weeks go by and I take it back to have them fix it again.  It was only going to be a couple days...right.  Well, while trying to fix the glass, the LCD screen broke, so it was going to be another week until the new LCD screen came in. Then finally when the new LCD came in, it was dysfunctional. Finally another week and all the parts are finally in one place....oops!  As the repairman was attempting to fix the phone he severed a very important wire.  The phone is now inoperable beyond repair!  They offered to buy me a new phone (refurbished) and I agreed, but it was going to take another week for it to arrive.... what's new... I was pretty frustrated.  I was leaving next monday to go to California for the holiday.  I specifically said that I needed my phone for this trip.  Well, you guessed it! My new phone does not arrive before we leave, so I leave for California without a phone.  I ask the guy if he could send it to me.  My phone should have arrived in IL and been shipped on Dec 17.  Even with the holidays it will surely arrive before Dec 27, when I leave to go to Virginia... not a chance. I am literally in the airport waiting at my gate (with my wife's phone) when my mom calls to tell me that my phone had finally arrived.  Yeaaah, I was without my phone for almost two whole months... You have to read part two, below, to pick up the rest of the story!