shattered phone & cracked ego

i drop my phone more than any person i know

my phone has taken a spill down a flight of stairs and been dropped out of my hand numerous times

it barely had a scratch and it never cracked 

note the past tense..

today my friends, my phone cracked. 

shattered is a better adjective. 

if you follow me on twitter (we won't even discuss if you aren't following me) then you know that i have been taking daily runs. i have to run at least 30 minutes a day in order to help myself medically - that sounds way weirder than i intended, but it's true. when i run i usually take my phone, because i go by myself and there are weird people in the world. i used to listen to music, but the shakira pandora station got too repetitive and i don't know another station to listen to. 

anyway today i was doing my daily loop. i was totally into it and felt like a baller so i decided to sprint the last block until i got to my house. i say i felt like a baller, but i'm sure the cars passing me had 911 up on their phone just in case i fainted or something. 

ok sorry off topic again..

so as i was "sprinting" the last block i felt good. i decided to stop watching the ground and start looking in front of me like i was an olympic runner or a cheetah sprinting after its prey. 

two houses away from my house i felt my foot catch on the uneven sidewalk and down i went. 

no i didn't catch myself before i fell.

yes i did slide across the sidewalk.

thankfully no cars or people saw me wipe out. 

thankfully i was only two house away from my house. 

i continued to pick myself up. dust myself off. look at my phone. see the shattered screen. and start balling. 

baller to balling.

so i have a shattered phone and a cracked ego. 

and a few scrapes and bruises but i'm gonna pretend that those don't still hurt so i can still keep a smidgen of that ballerness.

even though i don't think ballers say smidgen. 

whatevs. i make my own rules. 

do you have any running/excerising horror stories?

please tell me i'm not the only one with a shattered phone screen