torture

Have I ever mentioned that I love my iPhone? Well I do, enough to venture into a stranger’s basement suite to get it fixed when Apple tries to rob me of $229 to replace a piece of glass worth less than $5 (I know it’s worth less than $5, because I purchased one from China!), however, I am getting off topic.

Last Friday afternoon after the attempted robbery rip-off at Apple I tweeted:

My good twitter buddy @Antof9 suggested:

Please note the part where she so rightly tells me –> (just make sure “authorized”). I didn’t listen, I never listed, just ask my mom.

Seeing as I had a 1 cm hole in my phone and I wasn’t willing to pay $229, I decided it was a grand idea and Googled –> Edmonton iPhone Repair.

I dialed the first listing that came up –> iEnstein iPhone Solutions. He quoted me $60 and said, I could head right over. I did have a twinge of worry on the way over, he wasn’t “Authorized” like Antof9 had suggested, but then figured, “who the hell cares, it’s $60 and the phone is useless to me right now”. I figured the worst he could do was ruin the phone, and it was already ruined.

I wasn’t sure at this point if it was a residence or a business, but it became obvious as I looked for the address, that it was a residence, a pretty nice home actually … (photo here)

I have to say, that at this point I was a little bit leery, but mostly I was picturing a teenager fixing iPhone screens for spending money (he’d sounded very young on the phone), and went ahead and rang the doorbell.

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