It almost goes without saying that, in 2017, we are pretty much on our mobile phones all the time. We use them to check our Facebook updates, scroll through Twitter, perfect our Instagram photos, WhatsApp our BFFs, mull over work emails and, occasionally, place the odd phone call.

Indeed, the average person spends a whopping 84 hours on their smartphone every single month, according to comScore’s 2017 Cross Platform Future in Focus report. So you can imagine this woman’s absolute despair when she dropped her beloved digital companion onto her downstair neighbour’s balcony.

Oh yes.

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Liz Bertorelli does not explain to the world how she dropped her phone over an actual balcony – that, we assume, is best left to our imaginations.

But that doesn’t mean she stays silent on the subject, either: in fact, she turns the entire experience into an absolutely compelling social media drama with impossibly frequent Twitter updates (via a tablet, of course).

And every tweet perfectly encapsulates her feelings of helplessness as she watches her iPhone live its life without her (the unchecked notifications are ludicrous).

Bertorelli eventually overcomes her sorrow in a bid to forge a series of daring plans – each intended to reunite her with her beloved. The first – a note dropped for her neighbour to find – quickly goes awry when the wind picks up.

The second (a slightly more logical knock on her neighbour’s door) is also fruitless, as it turns out that the folks downstairs have only gone on holiday. And won’t be back for, ooh, about two weeks?

And then things started getting slightly more desperate:

All out of luck, Bertorelli finally decides to give up on her phone for a short while and go about her day-to-day life without it. But, when she finally turns up at work, she’s quickly left feeling bereft when she finds herself surrounded by happy iPhone users:

Then, of course, she spots a weather update: rain is on the way. Torrential, potentially iPhone-destroying rain.

Yet, somehow, the iPhone survives its impromptu shower:

And, the next time the rain clouds gathered overhead, Bertorelli knows exactly what to do to protect it from the merciless elements:

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Employing all of her skills and, y’know, surrounding tools, the increasingly desperate Bertorelli summoned a friend to help her create “a new rescue device”.

Crafted from a remote-controlled drone, some gaffer tape and a few other bits ‘n’ bobs, it wasn’t long before the creation was floating off over the balcony on its very important mission – and, naturally, the whole thing was filmed for Twitter’s benefit, too.

And, while the iPhone was “water damaged and cracked”…

It did, against all the odds, actually turn on:

We guess that should put paid to any rumours the Nokia 3210 of old is far hardier than the “snowflake” smartphones of today: who’d ever have suspected that an iPhone could survive on its own for so long, eh?

We love a happy ending.

Images: twitter.com/liznlbee