Once bitten, twice shy?

As humans, a negative experience usually makes us more cautious of similar situations in the future but sometimes, a person refuses to learn from their mistakes. I remember back in 2021, I was getting down from a public bus and my phone fell a short distance from my hands to the floor of the bus.

You will think the phone will still be alright after such a "small" fall but the screen was shattered. This was the same phone I saw on YouTube being flung against a wall and nothing happened, like wtf?

Anyway, after that experience, I became extra careful when I am on a public bus. Whenever I get to my destination, I put my phone in my bag or hold it tightly in my hands, a perfectly human behavior to avoid another accident.

Now, let's look at my friend's experience and for the sake of this article, we will call him Jerry. Jerry's phone got shattered last year because he was using the flashlight and guess where he kept the phone? On top of a door

It fell from there and got shattered. After going through the trouble of fixing the screen, the phone was back to life. Now, a normal human will try to avoid a similar occurrence, right? Well, it seems Jerry isn't normal (or maybe not a human).

On this fateful day, Jerry was in the kitchen trying to cook dinner and electricity went out a couple of minutes ago, so he was using his phone's flashlight to navigate around the kitchen. Now, guess again where he kept his phone this time around? On top of the kitchen door! It wasn't long before I heard a crash from the kitchen. "what was that?", I asked.

** silence **. I quickly rushed to the kitchen and there it was, Jerry's phone kissing the kitchen floor and refusing to let go. He picked it up and apparently, nothing happened to it. Wonderful! He has been given a second chance and he has now learned his lesson, right? Nope! Again, he still placed the phone on top of the kitchen door.

This guy is in a toxic relationship with that door and he doesn't even realize it. A few minutes later, another crash. "maybe someone promised to get him a new phone if this current one met an unexpected end?", I thought to myself.

He picked up the phone again and this time, he finally came to his senses and placed it on something much safer than a door. The flashlight was still on, so he continued with his cooking. After he was done cooking, he got ready to eat and decided to watch some movies on his phone as well, but the phone wasn't coming on, and....the flashlight was still on!

The screen has totally gone blank with no chance to come back to life. "God gave you a second chance and you threw it back at him, what were you expecting when the phone fell twice, a miracle?", I asked him while chuckling.

He couldn't believe that the phone's screen had been destroyed but after a while, he accepted reality and ate his phone in silence, still using the phone's flashlight.

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