Cooked my phone the other day.  That’s right.  I did not just leave it in the car on a 100+ afternoon in St. George.  I actually cooked it on 350 for about 15 minutes in the oven with the bacon.  Do not ask me how the phone got in the oven.  I don’t know.

We were watching the Olympics.  I was cooking bacon for BLTs.  I needed to check on the medal count and couldn’t find my phone.   I beeped it from my watch and heard a faint response.  Elle ran to the bedroom to see if it was there.  No luck.  I beeped again and this time my watch could not find my phone.  That was baffling.  How could it be there one minute and gone the next?  It was fully charged.  Then, Hadley says, “It smells like nail polish in here.”  It did.  Missing phone and a chemical smell?  Heat!  I opened the oven.  The bacon was looking good, but it smelled like nail polish not bacon.  And there it was, behind the bacon pan…my phone.  I have no idea how that happened.

If only it would have worked after cooling off iPhone marketers would have had a field day, but it didn’t.  So, down to the Verizon Store we went.  When I told the guy my sad story, he just kind of looked at me and tried not to laugh.  

“You cooked it in the oven?  First time I’ve seen that.”

“350 for about 15 minutes.  Do not ask how the phone got in the oven.  I don’t know.”

“Do you have a replacement plan?”

“I hope so.”

Drew got to work.  Luckily, I had my laptop that was paired with the phone so he could access my info.  He discovered I did have a replacement plan.  Therefore, it was $99 to replace the phone.  While Drew was submitting the claim, his sidekick, Michael, was working his magic to come up with an alternative monthly plan that could save us money.  These boys were good.  

So, I entered with a baked phone and left with the promise of a new one arriving at my door the next day.  My monthly bill went down by $15 thanks to Michael.   Total cost was $99 for the new phone, and we were down one plate of bacon.  Brent refused to let anyone eat bacon that smelled like nail polish.  Life is Good when things work out better than you think.  And people, that is often the case if you keep moving forward.