Do unto others as you would have others do unto you…

Just came back from lunch with my colleagues. One of my colleague is intending to sell his Sony Ericsson handphone and get a Nokia N73 instead. Other than upgrading for the fact of better features, his other reason of upgrading is because of an incident that happened last week.

My company has an office on the ground floor. There is a place where our staff like to gather and smoke, which has a staircase down to the restaurant in the basement. Apparently while he was smoking with another colleague there, he knocked his phone off, and the phone went ‘flying’ down to the basement. It really amazed us that the phone is still working, and the only thing that came off is some little part from the battery.

Now, we have been bugging him about selling his phone off. After all, with such a great fall, it has to be defected somehow. I mean, yes it is still working; but you’ll never know when it is going to crack, isn’t it?

We bugged him again just now while we were walking towards the handphone shop. His response was, “I lost so many handphone and no one return my phone to me before. Why can’t I sell this phone away?” and “If I sell the phone, the guy is supposed to check for scratches and defects right?”

Does two wrongs equal a right? Is it okay that we guide our own