mobile phone

It all began Sunday before last when I misplaced my mobile phone.  Monday morning before I left for work I tried calling it but it was switched off or out of range. It wasn't until Monday night after work that I walked into the kitchen and there it was sitting on the microwave.  It was still turned on and operable, v .curious  but glad I found it.  Tuesday it started acting v.strangely.  Turning off mid conversations and wouldn't allow me to access my messages.  Ahh I thought I bet the messages are overloaded.  I haven't deleted them for a while.  I phoned my carrier to see if they could do it remotely.  The tech asked me to turn my phone off, remove the back and take out the battery and sim card.  Couldn't take back off phone so asked young ones if they would.  They couldn't get the back off either.   Several minutes of "talking sweetly" to the phone and the tech guy came up with a game plan.   It worked and the back popped off, then back to young ones to get them to take the sim card out.  I didn't want to damage anything.  Waited couple of minutes then put everything back again.   Turned on phone and had to reset phone.   Messages still wouldn't work.   Tech guy decided that the phone software had become corrupted.  - am now wondering where phone went when it dissapeared on Sunday, sounds like it may have gotten itself into trouble -  He suggested taking it into a service centre to be fixed would cost $20 or so.  Or get a new phone.   Did I want him to tell me about some deals that were on.   I declined.   On Wednesday David fiddled with phone and deleted most of photos but still couldn't get into the messages.  I gave up on phone and decided to wait until next Wednesday to get a new phone.   I ignored phone for rest of the week then after my accident decided it was at least handy as a phone book even if it didn't fully work.   I put the phone on the charger on Monday night.  Tuesday morning I checked phone and got straight into the messages.   Decided to delete all messages immediately.   Phone asked me do you really want to delete all 723 messages.   Yes, couldn't push button quick enough.  Hasn't missed a beat since.  

Memo to self.   Delete messages on weekly basis.