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The Clock Strikes 12 : 30 A.m

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As the clock strikes 12:30 a.m., my phone battery drops below 20 percent. Other iPhone users may know that this is the critical moment at which your phone asks if you want to go into “battery saving mode”. This is the level at which I try to avoid. Being alarmed by this notification, I grab my phone charger to plug it in. After plugging in the cord, I was immediately alarmed when nothing happened. I looked down and realized my phone charger had the “Turtleneck of Death.” This term refers to the phenomenon when a phone charger cord gets bunched up at the end until it resembled the folds of a turtleneck, eventually leading to the charger not working at all. This was my reality on that cold winter night. It was past midnight so all stores nearby were closed. This meant I was going to have to choose between staying home to get my homework done without my phone, or abandoning my school work to drive 20 minutes away to pick up a phone charger at one in the morning. This was not a hard decision because I knew I wouldn’t make it through the night without a phone. I quickly changed into my warmest clothes and ran outside to my car. My father probably thought I was up to no good when he saw me running out the door at 1 a.m., but I was headed straight to Walmart. After a 20 minute drive I pulled into an almost empty parking lot and ran in to grab a charger. I returned home at 2 a.m. with a brand new phone charger in hand. I plugged in my phone and everything felt right again. The

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