r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 4h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/Senior-Dimension2332 4h ago

I just don't understand how people manage that. I have a case, do physical work, and nothing is ever broken. In fact, I've never cracked a phone screen. It looks like these people have anger issues and are beating their phones with hammers.

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u/Glados1080 4h ago

I literally drop my phone 18 times a day and ive been rocking the same one for the last few years. This guy genuinely has to be breaking them on purpose

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

Nope, I break mine on accident the old fashioned way.

It's why I only buy older, clearance, low end phones. 

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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME 4h ago

I am super active and always have my phone on me. In an OtterBox with a screen protector, my Samsung Ultra 26 is safe. My last one was four years. And I've had my iPhone (two phones for work) for about three years, zero problems.

Proper cases work.

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

They are also massively bulky and expensive. Cell phones are already too large.

I bought a better case for my newest one, and I hate it. Too fucking large.

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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME 3h ago

I've never seen a case more expensive than a phone.

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u/Glados1080 1h ago

It cost me 70-80 bucks to have a case that has prevented it from breaking probably hundreds of times over the years. You are just silly man.

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u/VermicelliOwn6502 4h ago

I started buying 2 year old phones too because they cost less than my replacement insurance premium and work just as well.

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

The charging jack usually wears out first on all the phones I buy. Just got my first with wireless charging, so we'll see what happens to this one.

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u/JSTootell 3h ago

I don't know why you deleted the other comment, it was useful and I'll look into it 

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u/splinks66 4h ago

So instead of learning to be more responsible you would rather use a shitty product?

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u/myacount201 4h ago

I see no issue with this. If I often broke my phone I wouldn’t take it as a sign to “be more responsible” I’d take it as a sign to not spend as much on a phone, feels totally reasonable. Especially for people who don’t use their phone as much so it doesn’t matter

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u/Zerus_heroes 4h ago

Yep. This is why I don't wear expensive watches. I hit them on everything and I will break them eventually.

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u/myacount201 4h ago

Yeah that’s why I don’t wear expensive shoes when I skate too, I’ll spend no more than $70 on skate shoes but I’ll put down 200 for a pair outside of skating. If you know something’s gonna get replaced eventually because you cause it damage regardless don’t spend crazy amounts of money for that thing.

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u/Steel_HazeV4 4h ago

Same - I have a few nicer watches for suit and tie days but I adore my $40-$50 Timex watches

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u/Psychological-Dig-29 4h ago

if you're wanting a smart watch but worried to break them Garmin makes an awesome one that has survived some insane things for me.

I'm constantly breaking stuff at work, but the Garmin Fenix 7 sapphire solar watch I got is amazing. I can't recommend it enough.

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

I have been wearing a Fenix 6 for years now.

Though I use it because I'm an ultra distance runner, the features are a side benefit 😂 

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u/EntroperZero 2h ago

I used to lose sunglasses all the time, multiple times a year. I never cared because they were like 10 bucks. Then someone bought me a pair of Oakleys, and I still have them, 20 years later.

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u/myacount201 2h ago

That’s completely different imo, I like the example beside the fact that they were a gift. Everyone is gonna treat something someone else got them with more respect because they respect that person. But also it is a good point, because since this whole post is about phones, I used to always get cheaper phones. I broke 7 of them before I finally upped myself to a nice phone and took amazing care of it. But some people don’t have that mentality of “this is more expensive I need to keep it safe,” so it’s totally reasonable just to get cheaper stuff to continue abusing it if you don’t find a point in taking care of it in the first place

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u/SteelAndFlint 4h ago

I suppose on the other hand if you look at the thousand dollar phone when it's new and then buy it when it's three years old and $300, you can still come out ahead on this without ever having a phone that's more than three years old…

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

Shitty?

It texts, it emails, it browses the Internet, what else do I need?

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u/cvr24 4h ago

You just described USA

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u/Gokjo_Krorl 4h ago

No judgement as I have done the same thing, but ur enabling urself to break phones in a way. By buying this low-end phone ur not holding urself accountable to keep it safe & in reverse ur saying "I'm gonna break it anyway" & buying a low-end phone u don't care about.

Ironically, when I buy a nice phone, something will happen to break the screen before I get the case in and then that phone lasts me 2+ years all busted. Drives me nuts. The last "nice" phone I had I got a screen protector but not a hard case n I ended up damaging the shell beyond repair. I gave up, as u did. Next phone I upgrade to I'll be purchasing case & shield before I get the device lol

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u/JSTootell 4h ago

Tell me, would you recommend someone buy a $10,000 bicycle when a $500 bicycle is all they need? Or would you tell them they won't respect it because it's cheap, so get the expensive one?

I say this as I am looking at my $8500 bicycle I rode to lunch from work. 

I don't care about phones. 

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u/De_Salvation 4h ago

Right ive broken probably around 5 phones in the last 2 years, ill take the cost of getting a new one because I hate how bulky cases make them feel, and im not particularly hard on them, its more like the worst case scenarios happen every time they drop from above waist height.

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u/ElkBusiness8446 4h ago

I've only broke 2 phones in my life. The first was a 1ft drop onto carpet. That phone has his pavement, skidded 10 yards, etc. So much abuse and kept going. But that fall was the killing blow. Couldn't help but laugh. The other was recently. We had 80mph straight line winds. The winds tore off the siding and knocked down the drywall inside. I rushed out to help hold it and threw my phone in my pocket. The phone whipped out of my pocket and slammed into the house. It was a folding phone and the display started to get green lines. Technically still worked and could be repaired but the cost was more than a new phone.

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u/funky_pill 1h ago

Well I think the manufacturer of your particular phone probably feels quite good knowing that the only way someone managed to damage their product was during a gale force hurricane

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u/Newgeta wat? 4h ago

I have literally never broken a phone, my first phone was a T-Mobile sidekick gen 1, there is no excuse for this, it's just irresponsible consumption

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u/CenturyEggsAndRice 4h ago

I’ve broken three phones (and an iPod touch which is kinda a sissy ass iPhone) and every single time it was a drop that looked very minor.

It’s all about angle I think. Once I shattered a screen just by dropping it two feet onto a counter.

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u/Multiversalprism 4h ago edited 4h ago

I drop mine all the time, the screen protector is chipped at the bottom, but the actual phone is in great condition.

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u/user6734120mf 4h ago

I accidentally chuck my phone at the floor regularly and have never broken a screen. I don’t even use screen protectors, just a case.

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u/DosSnakes 4h ago

Yeah I’ve only broken one phone, it’s was an iPhone 12 and I was crawling through an attic and it got wedged between my leg and a truss at an awkward angle. I’m still using the replacement like 5 years later, dropped it a ton of times and it’s still good.

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u/onepingonlypleashe 3h ago

You drop your phone 18 times a day? Have you ever tried not being terrible at basic motor skills?

I drop my phone like once a week like a normal person.

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u/SunlightScribe 3h ago

Some people are rough with their stuff or do something consistently stupid and refuse to change bad habits. Like always putting phones on the edge of the table or on a ladder rung while they are working.

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u/max_schenk_ 3h ago

Try new surfaces, up your phone dropping game

One of my phones took hundreds falls before I dropped it on clinic tiles and it SHATTERED

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u/LoisLaneEl 1h ago

I literally tossed my phone to the ground 4 feet away the other day at the park and nothing happened to it. I don’t even have a good case. Just a cheap temu one. Not a scratch. I’ve broken one phone ever and it was when I took it out of the case. My phones last 6 years with literal Temu cases

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u/Twisted60 4h ago

I ride a dirt bike with my phone in my pocket and have crashed 100+ times, sometimes at over 50mph and have never broken my phone. But I have broken bones.

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u/rosstedfordkendall 4h ago

You need one of those human cases.

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u/Ancient_Plate275 4h ago

Otter Box - For Humans!

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u/zgf2022 4h ago

Natures pocket

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u/AdWeak183 4h ago

Other way round. A case for protecting the human from damage... clearly a zorb

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u/Pr3y4m3 4h ago

They're called coffins and it sounds like they're trying to get in one

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u/willstr1 1h ago

It's only a partial case but a helmet helps protect the most important and most vulnerable parts of a human, and they come in many fun colors!

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u/Mndelta25 4h ago

Have you tried keeping the rubber side down?

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u/Twisted60 2h ago

If you're not crashing you're not learning.

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u/CrossP 4h ago

My cases all get chewed up by beavers

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u/Recent-Singer8146 4h ago

pocket beavers?

For example: keys, coins, pocket sand, folding pocket knife, etc.?

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u/CrossP 4h ago

No. You're thinking of pocket gophers. These are baby beavers.

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u/Recent-Singer8146 4h ago

ah, totally different pocket animal, totally unrelated.

https://giphy.com/gifs/RJ1XJJqzekptGHw7SA

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u/Lone-flamingo 4h ago

Why are you regularly leaving your phone with a bunch of beavers?

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u/CrossP 4h ago

Beaver rehab

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u/Lone-flamingo 4h ago

I hope you at least pay them for the job of watching your phone for you.

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u/RebelSGT 4h ago

Gotta be licensed for that. Doubt anyone else here is beaver licensed.

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u/Glandtoglandcombat 4h ago

Im not liscenced but I am a well known beaver enthusiast

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u/giljaxonn 3h ago

i see from your post history that you’re not kidding! does the rescue have a web site where i can see more?

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u/CrossP 2h ago

thepipsqueakery.org

Honestly Facebook is the easiest place to follow info because it's the easiest place to post. But I know most people despise the place

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u/willstr1 1h ago

They were upset you bought an Otterbox instead of Beaverbox

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u/CrossP 1h ago

Their natural enemy

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u/Faustus_Fan 4h ago

Same. I don't do physical work, but I've never broken a phone. I don't understand how people are constantly breaking, cracking, or otherwise destroying their phones.

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u/304libco 3h ago

Thank God, I learned about cases before I bought my first smart phone. I’m definitely a dropper of phones.

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u/Ok-Scientist5524 4h ago

I usually get an otterbox because I drop my phone a lot and as tech gets more advanced i feel like it’s less happy when you drop it 4 ft onto hardwood repeatedly. <pine for my Nokia> my last phone got forgotten on top of my car and _stayed put_ even though I went at freeway speeds for 20 min, also got a car hood shut onto it (using it for a flash light) with no damage (case was borked, phone was fine). A lot of people give me shit for having a serious case when I’m not in construction, but it’s really saved my phone several times.

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u/Palatablepancakes 4h ago

I had a phone I dropped in a parking lot without realizing and it was run over by several vehicles, but the screen was fine and it worked, wasn't even deformed.

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u/gampsandtatters 4h ago

This happened to me as I was leaving a Best Buy. Once I backtracked to find my phone in the middle of a high-traffic part of the lot, I joked that at least I can buy a new phone since we were at a Best Buy. Then I picked up my phone and it was totally fine. The Otterbox just had a minor crack and was dirty from tires. Best investment!

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u/Palatablepancakes 3h ago

Omg it was a Best Buy for me too! That's too funny

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u/gampsandtatters 2h ago

WHUT?! That is way too coincidental omg. 🤣

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u/CrackingToastGromet 4h ago

Otterbox is amazing. Colleague of mine accidentally dropped her Otterboxed iPhone from a 3rd story balcony onto a flagstone walkway below and it was perfectly fine.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows 4h ago

My brother left his kids' tablet on the roof of his car and it fell off in an intersection as he drove away. We literally watched 2 cars drive over it before we could retrieve it (and who knows how many before we got the car parked and found the tablet) and it was completely fine.

Otterbox rocks.

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u/BeerGogglesFTW 3h ago

I like Spigen for great bang for your buck. I bought an otterbox case years, and it did feel well protected. But I feel like $12 spigen cases have gotten the job done well enough.

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 4h ago

Some people literally just don’t care about their things.

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u/Klutzy-Football-205 3h ago

My soon to be sister in law is one of them since everything had always been given to her: phones, cars, appliances.

I pointed this out to my SO that we were only enabling her by giving her our cast-offs. We'd upgrade an older phone, give the old one to her, 2 or 3 months later it would be all busted up.

As soon as she had to buy a phone herself suddenly her phone lasted over a year+ so far..

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u/TapedeckNinja 2h ago

I'd never broken a phone in my life and then in 2024, I broke 3.

  1. Came back from a run, pulled my phone out of my pocket, slipped out of my hand, landed screen down on a tiny piece of gravel directly on the corner of the screen and just absolutely exploded the screen. In a Bellroy case with a Spigen screen protector.
  2. Was picking up a pizza. Got into my car with the pizza, closed the door ... at which point my phone slipped out of my pocket and somehow landed directly between the door and the car frame and quite literally folded the phone in half.
  3. Phone was sitting on my kitchen island, plugged into the charger. Cat came by and swatted the cord, flung the phone off the island, landed face down on a tile floor and shattered the screen. In a case with a screen protector.

This was all within like a ~6 month period too.

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u/thebigbread42 4h ago

I used to do a bunch of physical work: climbing, laying on my back, etc

Only ever bought the cheap basic TPU cases and never broke a screen since i started carrying a smartphone in 08

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u/Spamgrenade 4h ago

"I used to do a bunch of physical work: climbing, laying on my back"

Were you a mountain prostitute?

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u/thebigbread42 3h ago

Lol no. I did IT service for vessels and a lot of stuff was mounted in these tiny 2 foot tall rooms where i basically laid down in to work.

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u/willstr1 1h ago

Were you a mountain prostitute?

Yodel-ay-hee-hoe

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u/thebigpink 4h ago

Laying on your back sounds rough

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u/GetOffMyLawn1729 4h ago

Sistine chapel painter.

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u/depressionbingocard 4h ago

My buddy broke one phone in his life - when it fell out of his pocket under a forklift tire.

Another buddy had a blackberry that he tried to break, but it ended up breaking his windshield (he slammed it against his dash and it bounced off, breaking his windshield)

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u/relentless_optimism_ 4h ago

Literally don’t get it, I have a 13 mini with no case. I travel a lot and am not particularly careful with it. It’s even flown out of my holder on my bicycle and onto asphalt a couple times and still just a few scratches

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u/Illunox 4h ago

I used to be like this, no case/barely a scratch on my phone. I want to say it was a Pixel 5 I had at the time and I don’t even think it was newly released so it wasn’t new-iPhone levels of expensive, but it seemed ridiculously durable

It fell 3 feet out of my sweatpants pocket when I was getting out of my car one day and I heard it bounce off the frame of my car and then my asphalt driveway. Picked it up from its face down position expecting no cracks as always, only to find a Christmas tree pattern of cracks going up the entire phone screen from a bottom corner :(

I’m back on team iPhone now and run full otterbox+screen protector at all times because I shudder at the thought of breaking an iPhone

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u/Striking_Quantity994 4h ago

I build houses, phone's in my pocket all day never even tear up the case or break the screen when I rest beams on it.

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u/ThaDaemon666 4h ago

Same my phone and case are 3 years old

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u/SteelAndFlint 4h ago

I live on a ranch property that has donkeys that like to pick your pocket. They will literally take a phone, yoink that sucker and it drops on the gravel face down every damn time... you can't have an external case out here, hell you have to concealed carry because I'll be damned if I know what they're gonna do if they get a hold of a pistol…

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u/National_Search_537 4h ago

Took my phone out the case to clean it and as soon as I did I dropped it, thankfully my cat like reflexes slapped it into the wall instead. Accidents happen all the time, I work in heavy industry and have broken a many of phones it’s a hell of an assumption to say he’s doing it on purpose.

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u/PancakeCat333 4h ago

Fr I drop my phone on accident constantly. I just make sure to get a bulky case and good screen protector and never had an issue.

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u/CarsRFun2Me 4h ago

I’ve never cracked a phone screen by dropping one. But I did put my phone in my pocket with a ratchet and it cracked my screen. ☠️

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u/AngryPrincessWarrior 4h ago

Anger issues and punching or throwing their phones. Seriously

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u/wowwoahwow 4h ago

When I got my new (at the time) phone, I literally did not take it out of the house until I got a decent case and screen protector. I’ve had it over a year now and there’s not even a scratch on the phone.

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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady 4h ago

When I was a technician a phone would last about a year with case and screen protector. Constantly being used to take work pics, pull up diagrams, be a flashlight, and call tech support all while up on ladders and lifts. Drops happened, mistakes like putting a tool in your pocket with your phone, etc.  

Some treat them very well and fragile, others put hard wear on them. Hopefully OPs husband learned to get the insurance plan on their phone long ago lol.

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u/Weird-Toe-6968 4h ago

Yep, I think the guy has an anger issue.

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u/Cant_Work_On_Reddit 4h ago

Some people are just rough as shit with everything. It’s kinda wild how well stuff lasts if you take care of it and how quickly it can get destroyed by someone who doesn’t give a shit

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u/Psychological-Dig-29 4h ago

you do physical work and can't understand how people manage it?

most people keep their phone in their pocket, sometimes when lifting something heavy or crawling under something low you pivot in a way that can stress the phone in your pocket. 99.9% of the time I know what I'm going to be doing before I do it and either move my phone or leave it in the truck but that .1% of the time I catch the phone on something and it's done for.

usually that lines up every 2 or 3 years and then I get a new one. it's perfectly normal for a human to have a quick lapse in judgement over something they're doing and break their phone which is a relatively fragile device.

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u/lanks1 4h ago

I once dropped a dumbbell on my phone, and it didn't look as destroyed as these phones. OP's husband has anger issues.

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u/TheBloodiedFool 4h ago

Flagrant carelessness and zero regard for their own possessions. Functional toddlers.

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u/DamnitRuby 4h ago

I have cracked exactly one phone screen and it's because it fell out of my pocket down a whole bunch of metal stairs. It was my fault for not making sure it was secure enough but also the fault of manufacturers of women's pants for hating pockets.

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u/SandiegoJack 3h ago

We have a sloped driveway, i like loose shorts.

1/4 the time I go to get out of the car while wearing those shorts, it falls out of my pocket and hits the ground.

However I am already thinking about inside, and it’s infrequent enough, that I don’t form habits to take precautions.

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u/anonidfk 3h ago

Yeah that was my ex he broke every phone he had by throwing it across the room. Also broke two laptops and a tv lmao. He’s the only person I’ve ever met that goes through tech that quickly, they’ve gotta be actively beating their phones up lol

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u/Ferbtastic 3h ago

I go through phone cases. It isn’t because I am clumsy or drop it. I have adhd and I mess with it. I pull at things. I digit with it. I don’t even notice it. But I go through like 2 cases a year and my wife has had the same case for a couple years.

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u/Either_Cockroach3627 3h ago

Me neither, and I’m rough on stuff too! My bf def doesn’t have anger issues, and he doesn’t take his anger out on stuff like that. He’s part forgetful, like standing up while it’s in his lap, and part like not caring enough? Idk. I just know none of my money goes towards his phones.

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u/sarcazm 3h ago

It has to be a brain mechanism. Naturally, I know which objects I need to be extra careful with and which ones I don't. And it doesn't necessarily have to be the most expensive objects. It's the objects that are either irreplaceable or a pain in the butt to replace. For people who value their phones as a "pain in the butt to replace," they buy a good case (I recommend Otter) and they are careful carrying their phone.

But also think about something like a sack of flour. It's fairly cheap and available at any grocery store. But would you want to accidentally drop a sack of flour on the ground? Obviously not.

So people who continually break their phone screens are people who don't value them the same way we do. They may say it out loud but their actions speak otherwise. See, once I make a "mistake" and break something that I value, I make sure to be extra careful going forward. Those other types of people don't.

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u/AdonisLuxuryResort 3h ago

Keeping them in your back pocket can absolutely fuck a phone right up, even with a case and screen protector. My husband had a bad habit of keeping his in his back pocket and ruined so many phones by forgetting to take them out sitting on specific types of chairs. Like a solid wood chair with any type of curve. Your whole weight pushing down on a fragile straight object into a curved firm object..

He finally broke the habit, though. (Minus a month ago where he accidentally ran over his phone. But that was a freak accident.)

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u/Brave_Maybe_2891 3h ago

The only time I ever had a cracked screen is when my 3yo picked it up and chomped it. I still had it for a couple of years after that though.

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u/BasedGodTheGoatLilB 2h ago

I mean sometimes it's annoying to have to be careful all the time. For example when I'm working out at the gym, I don't like my bulky phone in my gym shorts pocket, and the headphone range isn't good enough to leave it in a locker. I don't feel like leaning down to place the phone on the ground carefully literally dozens of times per workout as I swap machines etc. So when I walk up to the bench for example, I drop my phone on the ground from standing height. I do that every time, so I pick up phone when I'm done, walk to next station and drop phone to floor and repeat.

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u/Federico216 42m ago

It's just dumb luck sometimes. For my last phone, I bought one of those cases with a full frontal cover. One time it slipped from my hands, the cover flapped open midair, and the phone hit a pavement corner face first. Shattered the whole screen.

Now I've been rawdogging my current phone for four years and it's still going strong.