"My brother used to have a very old mobile phone. Once, when he came to visit, he played around enviously with my stylish new handset. He said to his wife, "Look at all the things the phone can do... and it's incredibly small. I'd love a phone like that." His wife looked back at him and told him that they didn't need a new phone as long as the one they had was still working.
Weeks later, my brother presented his new mobile phone to me. Wow, that's cool, I thought. It was a great model! Maybe he'd persuaded his wife after all. He told me that his old phone hadn't survived the 60°C washing machine programme. I'm still not sure whether it got in there by accident or not."