Yesterday morning, Ryan came into my room at the unholy hour of 6:15 A.M. and asked for my ipad. He could have asked for anything at that hour and I would have given it to him in just to get him out of my grill. About an hour later, he came back in and told me, "Mom, the ipad is dead."
A couple months ago, my little boys ruined the area on my ipad that you plug the charger into. (I know I just ended with a preposition..get over it!) I took the thing into the genius bar at the Apple store and a worker jimmy rigged it so it worked again. At the time, he told me he couldn't really fix it and it was just a matter of time before the thing gives up the ghost. He basically told me to take the ipad home and enjoy my last days with it until it dies..they could do nothing more for it.
So when Ryan told me the ipad had died yesterday, I thought the time had come to really say goodbye. By the way, the thing is less than a year old. We are hard on electronics. But just in case, I dug my charger out of the drawer and charged the ipad all day. Still no pulse. So I made an appointment with the geniuses again and took it in tonight. And can I just say, the weirdest people ever work at the Apple store. It is a motley crew in there. I have never seen anyone who remotely resembles these people working there:
But I digress. I showed the worker my charger, and he informed me that I was using an iphone charger and that it doesn't have enough juice for the ipad. He sold me another ipad charger and I was on my way. I came home and guess what I found in the drawer...an identical charger to the one I just bought.
No one is ever going to accuse me of being a genius.
15 comments:
Funny.
How much did you pay for the new charger?
30 bucks..but it is going right back!
I was hoping you were going to say that they gave you a new iPad, but hopefully the charger brings yours back to life.
There is no pain like dealing with the Genius Bar. That is my least favorite thing to do in the whole world. I'm glad the ipad will live on though! Free babysitting! (You know this story is now legend among the geniuses!)
Ashley is right... those guys are totally laughing at you.
I went for a few weeks charging my iPad with the iPhone charger. I just thought the thing took forever to charge. You're not the only one! I should just laugh at your post and not admit this, but I'm sure there are many more of us out there.
Wait...there's a different charger for the ipad than the iphone? We just use the same one for both...they look exactly the same. How do you know which is which? It's beginning to make sense why the ipad takes 4ever to charge though...
I feel your pain. Except I would have lost the receipt.
So do the "geniuses" (sp) think that the new charger will bring the ipad back to life? I had a similar experience w/ RyRy. The little toy cash register we use to play "McDonald's Drive thru" (a game Brooke's kids totally get)wouldn't open. I took it apart and took out the watch battery to replace it. Then (long story) today I figured out why it wasn't opening. Ryan had stuffed it w/ wooden cookies and it was simply jammed.
Arg! The trials of electronics. At least your store appears to be close by. We are more rurally located so anything like that is a real pain. Hope the iPad works a long time. Thanks for sharing.
I made Dave read this because it cracked me up. He liked it. Totally something I would do.
I did this once, too. I only took one charge for my iPod and iPad. No bueno. I had to buy a stupid charger at a Wal Mart in a cornfield. Lesson learned.
that is hilarious brooke!! I thought they had it fixed the night we went out!
To quote: "damn iPad!"
I went to the Genius Bar only once and hope I never have to go back. Ugh.
And I love your mom's story! Your boys rock.
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