Relief

My phone finally died, late last night. The plug had been wiggling around in the socket, and then it simply refused to charge.

I spent the morning trying to get an appointment at the Apple Store for repair, but in the process of searching for possible reasons why I was having this problem, I stumbled on a different solution.

After digging out the lint buried deep in the charging port on the phone with a nail, the screen lit up with the glorious charging icon, and I felt a relief something like the first dose of painkiller unknotting a tensed muscle you weren't even aware was making you walk crooked.