Hey Apple! Where’s my waterproof iPhone?

linesI’m so over the Apple Store. All the staff in that same shirt with hipster flourishes like over-styled hair, subtle tattoos and designer glasses. They’re like a really smug cult.

If those salespeople weren’t at the Apple Store, they’d be selling Foxtel subscriptions or sponsor kids or raffle tickets.

Then the ‘geniuses’ up the back. When they’re not at work, we all know they’re shooting at each other and designing farms and chatting up hot girls. Virtually.

At the register there’s always one hot girl, in black-rimmed glasses. Who the nerds are too scared to talk to, and she’s already knocked back all the sales guys. Since she’s dating the assistant manager.

Inside every Apple Store there’s really only ever four things for sale. iPhone, iPod, iPad or Macbook. Which you can get at about a hundred different stores. In the same shopping centre. For exactly the same price.

Whenever a new Apple Store opens people still line up overnight just to be the first in there. It’s not like they’re selling anything worth lining up for. Such as tickets to the Grand Final. Or a Kylie concert. Or another John Farnham comeback tour. Come on, who wouldn’t gladly go another round of ‘Whispering Jack’?

The Apple Stores are always packed and Apple are doing very well. They’ve actually got $76 billion in cash. Which is more than the whole US government.

Just imagine how many mixed lollies that would get you? Or spins on the $1 poker machine? Or lap dances? That much money would get you at least a brazillian lap dances. The brazillian is actually the official unit of currency in strip clubs.

Despite how much money they’re making, every Apple i-thingy isn’t waterproof.

Every iPhone can still be destroyed by something that’s so abundant that it falls from the sky, and we’ve got it on tap. It’s such a scam. It’s like having a flying car that melts when it rains.

So many people I know have ruined an iPhone by spilling something on it. Which we all know is code for, “I dropped it in the toilet”. What a person chooses to do next, I believe is one of the greatest dilemmas facing society today.

There’s poo in that toilet. And a phone. And what if it still works? It’s going to cost hundreds for a new one. How much would it take for a person to touch their own poo?

Everyone has a number, and it’s often a very different number. Finding out is actually a great party game. Play it at your next dinner party, just make sure until everyone has finished eating.

If it were me, I’d be straight in there. No hesitation, I’d be immediately into that toilet for that phone. Doesn’t even have to be my phone. Or my poo.

So I took my poo phone into the Apple Store and the genius up the back told me, “This phone has been water damaged.”

I replied, “Hey genius, I’m not here because it’s working. Can you fix it?”

He told me it’d be cheaper to get a new one.

So I told him about the time I had sex with a real girl and his head exploded. It was filled with green Skittles, which was a surprise. I thought it would’ve been filled with loneliness and disappointment.

That didn’t happen. What I did do was go up to the three fat corporate customers staring at iPhone 5’s and announce, “The battery life on these is shit. Also, still not waterproof. Watch as I demonstrate.”

After tipping water over all three, I don’t think I even ruined one. Now I know plenty of people who’ve been thrown out of pubs and clubs, but nobody else who’s been thrown out of an Apple Store. Except me. It took seven of those nerds to get me out of there.

And the hot girl at the register? I totally got her phone number. Well I would’ve if my phone wasn’t “water damaged”. And the court hadn’t ordered me to stay 20m from every Apple Store.

None of that happened either.

What did happen was that I left quietly, and then bought a secondhand iPhone 3 on ebay.


After he finished laughing at himself, he continued.

“Do you go home and plug it into your Commodore 64 to recharge? Download all your music onto a tape? I’ve got a cassette tape cover for my iPhone 5. Ironically.”

He pointed me out to his over-tattooed co-workers and added, “I bet you still even make calls on landline. Or a payphone. Do they even still exist?”

So I paid for my one black coffee with a credit card, and a signature. Which made his head explode. It was filled with music that nobody could understand, from bands that never existed, played on instruments that hadn’t been invented yet.

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