Lucas returned from scuba diving in the Philippines. "Ben! Can you get me a new cell phone? Mine got stolen on the beach!" he spat.
"Can't you trace it?"
"I can, and I did. I got to someone's house, but the police refused to do anything about it."
"Well that's crap," Ben said, "but here, we have one iPhone 8 left."
"Ugh. Do we have anything with a headphone jack available?" Lucas moaned.
"Nope. Beggars can't be choosers, Lucas."
"Fine. Thanks."
"If it helps, I think it comes with a headphone add on in the box," Ben called after him.
"I will lose that in a heartbeat," Lucas muttered, walking away to set up the new phone. He quickly realized the flaw in his plan. He didn't know how to get the phone on his phone plan until the next time he was in The United States. "Captain?" he called on his communicator.
"Yes Lucas?"
"When will we be in the US again?" he asked.
"Probably in about a month, we'll have a day in Los Angeles," the Captain told him.
A month sounded like a long time to go without a phone, but Lucas realized he'd probably be under water and unable to use his phone for most of it anyway. He sighed and stared at the new phone. He could at least put it on the wifi and use Skype with it. He could probably recreate his apps from his old phone, too, and play games on the wifi. He logged into his apple id, and found that most of that stuff had been saved for him. "Well, at least that's good," he muttered, and downloaded everything all at once. He found the piece that connected the headphone jack to the charging port on the phone, and put it in his desk drawer. "Hope I can find that again," he said to himself, before plugging the phone in to charge, and going to bed.