Dear LPG,

I have noticed that there is a little more poetry being posted on the LPG site and I have always thought this a really good way to offer self-expression.  Although I have often been told that my poetic efforts are somewhat ‘avant-garde’ I would like to offer a poem that I wrote some seven years ago which is owed to the mobile phone.

The Downside

My smartphone is half made of glass

I hope it doesn’t crack

At four hundred odd quid a go

If that happens, I’ll take it back

For it’s a fact that if it’s not

Insured, it will be gone

I have to say I can’t but think

Insurance such a con.

The other thing that you could do

If it decides to drop

Is take it to the market where

You’re bound to find a shop

With a young man at the entrance

Who’ll will fix the thing for you

You’ll have to leave it for a while

But that’s one thing you could do

For those with a technological mind

There’s always You Tube where

You could watch and do it yourself

you’ll find Instructions; if you dare.

CJC, Downham.

LPG did a little research on You Tube where there are lots of instructions for replacing cracked smartphone and iPhone screens for all makes and models, but suggests that, unless you know exactly what you are doing, you pay the insurance…

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