{"id":131,"date":"2007-06-20T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sprajan.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/20\/the-kaput-story\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T05:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:26:31","slug":"kaput-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/kaput-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kaput story!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">It was another one of those weekends<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;font-family:times new roman;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Wake      up late<span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Read      the useless 100 page Houston Chronicle<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Have      brunch with whatever is leftover from yesterday\u2019s takeout dinner<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Open      up the snail mails (yes we get tons of them) and shred the junk<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Chores      including grocery shopping, laundry, ironing, cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming      the house etc<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Calling      up friends (and leaving a voice mail. No one ever picks up the phone on a      weekend)<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Replying      back to emails dating more than a month back<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Visits      to library<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">Dance      class<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">To the      temple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.25in;font-family:times new roman;\">And we are off to the temple, Sunday evening. \u201cLa La la\u201dand that\u2019s my phone, a good 5 minutes of blah-blah-blah with lots of eye rolling and finding excuses to hang up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.25in;font-family:times new roman;\">15 minutes later, at the Meenakshi temple, I flip open my phone to turn it off and surprise, there is no display.. a few buttons pressed, battery taken out and in short all tricks of the trade tried and it is time to admit, the phone had gone Kaput!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.25in;font-family:times new roman;\">End of story! I lost all 150+ contacts!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.25in;font-family:times new roman;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left:.25in;font-family:times new roman;\">Moral of story : Open an Excel spreadsheet and store all your contacts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was another one of those weekends Wake up late Read the useless 100 page Houston Chronicle Have brunch with whatever is leftover from yesterday\u2019s takeout dinner Open up the snail mails (yes we get tons of them) and shred the junk Chores including grocery shopping, laundry, ironing, cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming the house etc Calling up friends (and leaving a voice mail. No one ever picks up the phone on a weekend) Replying back to emails dating more than a month back Visits to library Dance class To the temple And we are off to the temple, Sunday evening. \u201cLa La la\u201dand that\u2019s my phone, a good 5 minutes of blah-blah-blah with lots of eye rolling and finding excuses to hang up! 15 minutes later, at the Meenakshi temple, I flip open my phone to turn it off and surprise, there is no display.. a few buttons pressed, battery taken out and in short all tricks of the trade tried and it is time to admit, the phone had gone Kaput! End of story! I lost all 150+ contacts! 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