One day in February I started my morning at school in a panic. I could not find my phone.

I retraced my steps and found my LG Optimus L90 phone, face-down, in the middle of the the student parking lot. I picked up my phone; the screen was shattered.

It was clear my phone had been run over by a car.

Unfortunately, I am not the only student who has had this misfortune.

Senior Rebecca Taylor attended a Paramore concert at DTE Energy Music Theatre during the summer of 2011. Taylor left the concert to go to the bathroom with her blue Virgin Mobile flip phone in her back jean pocket.

In the bathroom, Taylor’s phone fell out of her pocket and into the toilet.

“It fell in before I even flushed the toilet,” Taylor said. “I was not going to reach in there for my phone.”

Taylor decided to leave her phone in the toilet and return to the concert.

“If the water is clean, reach for it. If there’s anything in the toilet, leave the phone,” she said.

Luckily, only two days after her phone was left in the toilet, Taylor got the same exact phone.

Senior Sydney Owens broke her Metro PCS Coolpad phone in the hallway at KHS.

“I was walking down the hallway with my phone in my pocket,” Owens said. “One of my friends grabbed my backpack and pulled me backward. My phone fell out of my pocket and flew almost seven feet in the hallway.”

Her phone still worked, but the screen was shattered. Owens said she was angry at her friend for causing her phone to break.

Owens had to use her shattered phone for three weeks until she got a new one.

Owens’ advice for those who own big phones to not put them in small pants pockets or sweatshirt pockets.

Most phones break on accident; however, Junior Joel Paladuk said he purposely destroyed his phone.

Paladuk was given an aluminium HTC1 cell phone from his employer.

“I really hated that phone,” Paladuk said. “I couldn’t text because the screen was messed up. I couldn’t make calls, and it was hard to hold because it was squared.”

Irritated by the phone, Paladuk decided to destroy it in August 2014.

Paladuk cut the HTC1 into pieces with a saw blade.

“The best moment with that phone was chopping it up,” Paladuk said.

Surprisingly, Paladuk’s employer was not upset at him for destroying his work cellphone. But his employer decided to not purchase him another phone.

There are many ways people can prevent their phones from breaking, like using screen protectors, phone cases, not putting a phone in loose clothing or small pockets, and, of course, not cutting them in half with saws.