Asurion and a Stress Free Summer

This post was created in partnership with Asurion, but all thoughts are my own.

My sister and her daughter visited me a year ago. My teen niece, like all teen nieces, was obsessed with her new phone. She was texting, downloading, moving apps into folders... Well, I guess anyone who's ever bought/received a new gadget has been obsessed with it for a while, but nothing compares to a teen with a new smartphone, and that addiction never goes away. Young teens go everywhere with their phones, rarely lifting their heads to see the world. And although I sound critical, I'm not saying that as a criticism, especially since the people I know online are just as real and as important to me as "real life" people. Obviously, though, teens take smartphone obsession to a whole new level. They play with their phones when they wake up, when they eat, on the way to the car, when their parents drive them around, and even, unfortunately--
A year later, I'm visiting my sister, and the iPhone lies broken and sad in a room. It might still work, somehow (I haven't checked), which may explain why it's still there and not in the trash, but you can't see anything through the cracked screen. You've got to hand it to Apple, though, for creating a device so strong that it doesn't break into a million pieces when it falls off a roller coaster, but only gets its screen cracked in about a million places. Apparently, my niece was at the point where the roller coaster was about to do a 360 flip when she saw Her Precious fall all the way down. At least on this round, it's Gravity: 1, Centrifugal force: 0.
And while I'm making fun of my young phone-obsessed niece for breaking her phone, I think we all know an adult who has damaged his or her phone somehow. After all, this thing, this really expensive thing, is always on us, and it lives on borrowed time.
Which is where Asurion gets in the picture. It wasn't there for my niece, who recently had to buy a new phone, but it could be there for you this summer.
Next time you spontaneously jump into an inviting pool, you may feel like less of a fool once you realize you had your phone inside your bathing suit pocket. Next time you have too much fun on your vacation, and forget to pick up the bag with your phone from the Tiki bar, you may remember that vacation fondly even if you never get that bag back. Next time you wake up realizing you've left your phone outside in the 110 degrees day, you may enjoy the rest of the day after all.
Asurion is committed to ensuring quick replacement of broken, lost, or malfunctioning devices, and in most cases, customers can receive a replacement device the business day after they file a claim. Asurion has earned an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, which is not bad, considering it as over 150 million customers. Here's more about the company and about the need to insure your phone:

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