When Size Does Matters

Met up with my pet brother today over lunch at mid valley. We decided to grab ourselves some coffee as "pick-me-up" at Starbucks before we decided on what's good for lunch.

As we were catching up, somehow we took out our phone to fiddle when i realise that he is using an Iphone 3GS. Whao! I am still stick with my 2G and have been pondering if i should upgrade mine. One of the reason why i resist changing is because of the beautiful pouch i am using now. It a really heavy duty red leather pouch that i could easily identity from the pile of things in my bag. And somehow i knew the size will not be the same between 2G and 3Gs because 3Gs is definitely wider and thicker.

So i did a very idiotic thing. I took his 3Gs and stuck it into my pouch. Guess what? The pouch fitted so tightly that we cant pull it out! Now even bitting, pulling, shaking or anything.

And throughout the whole thing i kept assuring him that we will be able to take out the phone and if not, the worst case scenario will be going back to the shop and just cut off the leather. And my pet bro looked rather worried the whole time. We did the pulling and pushing actions for about 30 minutes when he could not bear it any longer and requested us to go back to the shop and asked for help.

And we planned out everything during the whole journey. We have two options. The first option will be asking the staff to help and if they can help us on this, everyone will be happy. The second option is if all things failed, then we will ask the staff to cut open the pouch and ask if we can restitch the pouch back. If they can restitch it, then he will buy me a 3Gs pouch (he said he will buy one for himself too) and i will pop over to Low Yat and get myself a 3Gs Iphone. That will sort of like help me make up my mind as well. Sounds good eh?

So we went to Starhill and walked straight to one of the lady staff. Seems like they do not have any pouch for Iphone 3Gs. So there goes the second option. Desperate, i told her just to cut off the leather. Her eyes widen! And then she told us that there was once a customer who wanted to buy the same pouch for his 3GS and didnt believe that it will not fit. He forced his phone into the pouch in the shop and only realised it got stuck! Somehow one of the staff managed to unstuck it for him.

So she directed us to the same staff and he asked for our phone and brought it into one of the rooms to try. Guess what? Within 5 minutes, he managed to separate them? How did he do it? He just said pull and that's all. I thought we have been doing the same thing as well, but...?

Anyway, after that terrible incident, we went for a good lunch at Starhill. Ah... so glad to see a smile on him again. The last time i met him was about 1 year ago and if i had really made a blunder today, i guess i wont be seeing him again in a long, long time.

And what is the morale of the story? Yes, size does matters!