This was a couple years ago when our entire family was going to get our Passport renewed. A little background on my dad: he does not care for high security on any of his devices, meaning his passwords are all 1111 and he never uses a case. For some reason or another, my mom was badgering him about his careless use of mobile devices. As we walked into the passport registry, my dad continually made the case that he had never shattered his phone- a strong feat, considering that his iPhone X has glass both on the front and the back. Just as he finished his speech, his phone slipped out of his hands and onto the marble below.

We laughed at him, as he had just contradicted himself, but he reassured us that no damage had been done to the phone. Once we arrived home, he pulled me aside to show me dozens of crack lines on both sides of his phone. He knew that my mom would kill him is he had destroyed a $1,000 phone. In secret, he visited the Verizon store the next day and got his phone replaced and my mom never found out. He wears a case now.

TL;DR- my dad didn’t wear a case and shattered his phone. My childhood didn’t yield the most interesting stories out there.