Life is like chocolate - mobile

The mobile phone has been serving me faithfully  without any big problems albeit the occassional niggles.  It has been functioning well,  well I guess well enough.

Then one fine day it decides not to wake up.

I spend hours at end trying to charge it with different chargers and rebooting it incessasantly.  On some rare occasions it powers on but the battery just drains flat almost immediately.  Having used multiple chargers and cables I manage to isolate the problem.  It has to he a faulty battery. I arrive at this conclusion cocksure.

So off I go to a electrical store to get a new battery.

The same problem persists. I spend many more hours trying to work out the cause in futile.

I rant to Mr Ong at work. Being an outrageously kind person as he always has been, he offers me a spare phone which is the the exact same model as mine.  I try to decline.

"Just use it until you decide on a new phone.  It is just at home gathering dust.  Soon it will become faulty for being disused anyway. "

 Well it sounds like a sound argument.  I object no further.

Upon receiving his mobile, a thought strikes me and I proceed to using the battery from his mobile.  My mobile now works fine.

I run through the evidences in my head, apply logical reasoning  and arrive at a second  conclusion cocksure,  discarding my earlier conclusion.

"The electrical store sold me a faulty battery. How could they be so unscrupulous?  It's not just the money they cheated but also my precious time.  These cowboys should be tightly controlled.  The government should clamp down on dishonest business people... !"

I spend a considerable amount of time at work trying to make clear my political views to at least half a dozen co-workers.

With that behind me I get back to my routine.

Until later in the evening the battery goes flat shortly after I try to recharge it.

Now with two mobiles and three batteries and a dozen charger and cable sets I sit down and reassess the entire situation. I charge multiple batteries using the mobiles and observe the outcome.

It then finally comes clear to me.  The charging point on the mobile phone is the culprit.  It drains the battery upon charging.   This is the my third and final cocksure conclusion.

Such is life. Eveytime I am cocksure about something it turns out I am wrong. I may get it right eventually but only after being repeatedly humiliated and humbled  along the way,  all along the way.