Story 03

Okay, hi, my name is Saeeda Rahman. Hi, my name is Mbangu. And I'm going to be talking about my funny cell phone story. So my cell phone story, it starts in high school when I was a freshman. So when I was a freshman, I went to Hutch Tech, and I was in the JRTC program. Do you know that? No. It's like a, it's like a drill program. It's like kind of for military prep, but also a lot of students do it for like, like voluntary hours and just to like gain experience and stuff like that's a good club. So I did it. And so one of the first voluntary events that I did was I volunteered for open house, which is like, you know, report card night and like, new students that wanted to go to Hutch Tech when they go to high school, they come and visit the school. So I just volunteered to help like, you know, guide the parents guide the students and stuff like that. But this event, it like lasted pretty late into the night. So it lasted until 10 into the night. So like, it was dark already. And so I had to go home, right. And originally, my plan was to go home with my friend. And my friend was going to drive me home. Well, not she was not going to drive me home, her dad was going to drive me home. But she last minute canceled on me. Because she had family visiting, and there was no space in their car to take me home. And at that time, I didn't have a phone. I had a I had like an Obama phone, you know, an Obama phone is. So they're basically like government phones, but they're not good. They basically all you can do is like call your parents and like text, but sometimes you can't even do that. Because they're not good phones. So that's all I had. So I couldn't call my mom or dad to pick me up. And so it was like 10 at night. My only option was to take the public bus. And I was like 14 years old. So I was like really scared. And so I remembered I was like walking outside and like one of my friend's mom saw me and she was like, Oh, like, are you okay? And I'm just like hitting my broken phone. Like No, she's like, Oh, like I can get you a taxi and bow and I was 14. I was like, I don't want a taxi. Like I'm scared. What if the guy does something bad to me. But then I had one of my she's not my best friend. She saw me and she was like, Oh my god, like, I'm gonna help you because she felt bad for me. Right. So she drove me home. And now we're best friends. Me and that girl who helped me took me home. So you didn't know her. I kind of knew her. We had like a history class together. But we weren't that close. But she knew my name. She knew my face, you know, and she saw that I was like stressed. So she helped me out. But after that situation, I finally got my first phone, which is this phone that I'm recording with. This is the phone that I got. And my parents after that situation, they were like, Okay, maybe she actually needs a good phone. And so they got me a good phone. So that was my story. That's nice. That's nice. Yeah. All right.