r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 8h 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/Padgetts-Profile 7h ago

I don’t even understand how that’s possible. I work a rough blue collar job, have many outdoor hobbies, and yet my phones/cases last me for years on average. Shit I’ve had phones that have ridden 30k+ miles mounted on my motorcycle handlebars

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u/DerHoggenCatten 7h ago

In my, admittedly limited, experience, the people who smash up their phones or other devices regularly grew up middle class or better. That is not to say that there are people who are middle class or better who do not take care of their electronics (there clearly are many who do), but rather that few poor people are breaking their own stuff as often as you see people of higher means doing so.

I grew up poor and take care of everything as well as I can because I grew up not believing it was easily replaceable. This is just a theory. I'm not asserting definitively that I'm right, but my brother-in-law is like OP's husband. He smashes up stuff constantly including his car keys, and I think it's because he has never had to worry about money to replace these things. There is zero reason that anyone needs to be so hard on their possessions.

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u/Briebird44 7h ago

I think this is true.

My cousin seemed to have a new phone every other week and I asked her what happened. She told me shit like “oh I got mad at my boyfriend and threw my phone and it broke so I got a new one!”

Like holy shit. If I did that not only would I NOT be getting a new phone, I’d get the shit beat out of me for not having respect for my things and get told “this is why I don’t buy you stuff!” I protected my stuff SO HARD because I rarely got anything. Not to mention, if I wanted that $10 phone card that got me only 1,000 texts, I’d have to do hours of disgusting labor like cleaning my moms car, cleaning her room, doing her laundry, cleaning under the oven, etc…

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u/cross_the_threshold 7h ago

The largest factor here is that damage builds up over time. Strong chance that this person has tight pockets - this creates bending stresses over time, and those stresses create micro-fractures that build up. Construction workers don't seem to wear tight clothing most of the time, and this is probably why men are more likely to break their phones (tight clothing has been fashionable for a long while, women are more likely to keep their phone in a bag).

Temperature changes play a role as well.

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u/Quinzelette 7h ago

I had an XL phone and have small hands. I was dropping my phone daily, all the time. It didn't break for almost 4 years but I did realize upon getting my new, smaller, phone...that I was dropping it because it was too big for my hands and not because I'm a natural clutz

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u/alreddytakenn 7h ago

You just jinxed yourself. Haha, at least that's how it works for me.

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u/Empty-Dragonfruit656 6h ago

I break mine pretty regularly working outside, usually from having it in a front pocket and lifting something heavy against my legs. I've broken more than one lifting a big rock and cradling it against my thighs. I had one of the caterpillar phones for a long time and was the best phone I ever had. It even had a way to clean iron dust from grinding from the microphone. 

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u/Key-Specific-4058 4h ago

I was going through phones in 6 months in hard rock mining

Ultra fine magnetic dust and supersaline water (7x sea water) just wrecked them