D'OH!

I think I'm kind of stupid sometimes.

I've been having problems charging my phone for the last few weeks. I would wrestle with the little plug for up to 30 or 40 minutes every night until I found the charge. I assumed it was because something had been broken in the phone and so I called AT&T help and went through some very nice technical support people (AT&T is good, and full of nice, friendly people. Isn't it great when you get good tech support?) and eventually we came to the point were the woman asked me to look into the little plug area on my phone and look to see if anything appeared broken. "No, I don't think so," I said. And then she said to have a look at the charger and see if that appeared broken. And I looked and said, "Huh. It does appear a little bent out of place." And the woman said "We'll send you a new charger and it will arrive in the next week. If it doesn't work, give us another call and we'll send you a new phone." (For the record, they were nice and didn't charge me for it!)

Well, the charger just arrived at my door and I had a looksie inside to compare the new one (Which works! Yay!) and compared it to the old one.

(Spiffy super close up photos are sponsored by Spiffy Fancy Nikon Camera...)

Old one:


New one:


(And you can see the little fuzzies on my jeans!)

Something was broken in it. See how the golden bits are pushed back? There's something on the side that is pushed in a bit too. I don't know how it happened, but it did.

And I cannot believe how stupid I was. I had a phone charger for my car that I have been using for the past week to charge my phone that works perfectly... so how on Earth could it have been my phone that was broken if it was charging at all!

(D'OH!)