The other night, we returned home with a car full of groceries.  We live in a second floor apartment so getting the groceries into our home can be an annoying process when making several trips.  My normal stance on this situation is to load as many bags possible on my arms and carry everything up in one trip.  This process has been successful in the past but this night would be different.

Walking up the stairs, over-encumbered (a word I learned from Fallout 3!) with groceries, I found myself losing my balance as I make my way to the top.  Unfortunately about halfway up the top, my flipflop caught one of the stairs causing me to lose my balance.  Knowing that the fall down the stairs could be painful, I did the only thing I knew and let myself fall into the incline of stairs.  Luckily for me, I didn’t tumble down and none of my groceries made the plunge to the bottom.

Laying on my side for a few moments, pain set in as I had landed pretty hard on the stairs with the left side of my body.  The impact was mostly my upper arm and my left leg.  I usually keep my phone in my left pocket but I thought nothing of it at the time.  It wasn’t until later that night I learned what I have done.

My phone took the entire weight of my body against the corner of the stair and cracked the LCD.  Somehow the digitizer escaped injury but the screen below it took the impact.  Sadly however, I had to slowly watch the phone screen effectively bleed to death as the colors faded more and more to black.  The above picture was halfway through the death process for the display.

Luckily for me however, replacement screens are available and cheap.  Now I just wait out for the new screen to arrive so my phone can breath life again.