Not a disaster so much...
...but he did get quite angry about it.

Only just remembered about this: when my dad first got a mobile, he spent the whole day making unnecessary phone calls and sending pointless texts (sample: 'I'm in Asda with your mum. :-)'. Then all of a sudden, nothing on the evening until I got a call the next morning from the landline.

I mentioned that he'd slowed down on the texts and he admitted that there'd been a bit of a technical hitch.

You see, he realised the phone came with a charger, but being used to only rechargeable toothbrushes (where you stick the toothbrush onto a little nubbin, a bit like a kettle), he'd thought that there was a sort of recepticle bit missing from the charger and had spent the previous evening waving about his out-of-battery phone and getting irate about how the Orange shop had messed him about.

This went on until my mum got fed up of him moaning, picked the phone up to have a look, and promptly plugged the lead from the charger in to the bottom of the phone.

Daft old git.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:02, Reply)