{"id":23,"date":"2012-09-10T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/2012\/09\/10\/curse-of-breaking-things\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T06:27:00","slug":"curse-of-breaking-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/curse-of-breaking-things\/","title":{"rendered":"curse of breaking things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a curse. \u00a0No really, I do. \u00a0And while I write this I can’t even laugh at myself anymore. \u00a0I just want to cry.<\/p>\n

It all began with my Dell computer a year ago. \u00a0Don’t even know what happened, it just decided not to turn back on again. \u00a0Started making weird beeping noises and overheating. \u00a0I lost everything. \u00a0After a couple weeks without a computer I decided to rent from BYU. \u00a0Let’s just say I went through SIX of them. \u00a0Same sort of thing, they decided not to turn on. \u00a0One couldn’t hold a charge for more than five minutes. \u00a0Sometimes I would back things up, other times I forgot to back some stuff up. \u00a0So I hardly have any papers or anything I wrote from my freshman year of college. \u00a0After going through six PCs, I bought a Mac. \u00a0Haven’t had any problems whatsoever.<\/p>\n

But the computers are only just the beginning. \u00a0I dropped my phone in water. \u00a0Oops. \u00a0Had to borrow someone’s.<\/p>\n

I went on a bike ride on Karina’s bike. \u00a0Crashed it. \u00a0Broke the tire.<\/p>\n

My ipod. \u00a0Kept deciding not to play stuff and the computer finally didn’t recognize it anymore. \u00a0It’s dead. \u00a0Maybe it got dropped too many times, I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

I crashed my family’s car on the way home from Utah<\/a> (sorry, guys). \u00a0This one really isn’t that funny, more like traumatizing. \u00a0But my roommates still insensitively laugh at me about it.<\/p>\n

When I came back from AZ to Utah this year, my camera all of a sudden had a lens error. \u00a0No idea where that came from – it was working in the airport and decided not to work once we landed in Utah.<\/p>\n

When I was in California I dented a bike rack.<\/p>\n

And now, just yesterday, I wake up and my phone decides to completely die on me. \u00a0The touch screen is fried. \u00a0It lasted me so long….like 8 months. \u00a0That’s a record.<\/p>\n

So now I’m phoneless, without a camera or an ipod. \u00a0My computer still works, thank goodness. \u00a0And I was smart enough to get insurance on it just in case.<\/p>\n

I also seem to have a problem with breaking toilets too.<\/p>\n

I know material things aren’t what make life wonderful. \u00a0But I like having working electronics.
I have a problem. \u00a0I swear, I don’t throw my phones against the wall or smash my cameras with hammers. \u00a0Maybe I’m clueless, maybe there’s some rule to technology everyone in the world knows about except me. \u00a0If there is, could you please tell me? \u00a0Because I’m sick of this.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll go cry myself to sleep now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a curse. \u00a0No really, I do. \u00a0And while I write this I can’t even laugh at myself anymore. \u00a0I just want to cry. It all began with my Dell computer a year ago. \u00a0Don’t even know what happened, it just decided not to turn back on again. \u00a0Started making weird beeping noises and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmaletters.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}