And by that idiot I mean the driver of bus no. 861743 218, because thanks to him I now have a completely broken phone worth > 4,000 CZK. Here is how it happened: I was riding my bike from Stritez to Smilovice. Suddenly a bus appeared behind me, driving as if it were drunk, right in the middle of a two-way road.
If there had been a car there, they would have crashed into each other by now.
He started honking at me, so I pulled off into the grass, which unfortunately was bumpy, and the phone I had in the left pocket of my shorts fell out. I didn’t notice, because I had a second phone for radio and MP3, but that one was hanging around my neck and playing music into my ears. And then it came. That apparently drunk bus driver passed me so close that he almost ‘brushed‘ my handlebars. I kept riding and only stopped at the fork/junction in Smilovice.
There I checked by touch whether I still had the phone in my pocket and.. I didn’t. But I kept a cool head, even in this heat :). On the way I had also passed one car and a tractor heading towards Stritez, and I had pulled off into the bumpy grass then too, but I didn’t know exactly where, so I rode back looking into the grass and at the road to see if there was something white that looked like my phone.
Once it was clear that the tractor and the car weren’t to blame, I wanted to give up, thinking that someone must have come along and taken it, even though I wasn’t aware of anyone having passed by. But I kept going and found it only back in Stritez. Broken into 3 pieces – the battery, the back cover and the phone. The “brutal” part was that the back cover was another 70cm further away than the rest. The phone’s sliding keyboard mechanism didn’t work either, but that got fixed at home. It wasn’t as great as before it happened, but it worked. The question is whether only the front part is damaged or the back part too.
The buttons respond to touch just fine, but the phone won’t even turn on. Or rather, it may be on, but the display is completely dead :-(. The back cover got away with a few scratches, but the front of the phone ended up REALLY badly. :/
I was incredibly lucky that nobody drove by, even though it’s a stretch of about 3km. I wanted to ride to Javorovy today, but because of the confusing hiking trail markings (and I only had the map on that phone), the strong wind and, last but not least, the wrecked phone, I put it off for another time.