Four days! Four whole days!

My new cell phone outlasted its 1-year warranty by... FOUR (4) days! It gave up the ghost today, and the lady at the store said it was purchased on November 22 last year. Four extra days past the warranty. Whoo hoo! It would really be nice if someone, somewhere, would take enough interest in these malfunctioning electronic gizmos to actually send them to a factory repair center to find out exactly what it is inside them that goes wrong when they've been sitting around me for a few months. Like many people who have received strong electric shocks in their lives, I can't seem to keep a piece of electronic gear anywhere near my body for very long without it ceasing to operate properly. A few weeks, or a few months, or at absolute best, one year and four days, seems to be the limit, whereas other folks keep their equipment working for years and years. But alas, no one cares. "Just buy a new one", they tell me. Like the beaver said when he saw the stream...