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16 Stages You Experience When Your Phone Battery Runs Out, As Told Through Awkward Stock Photos

These Awkward Stock Photos Understand Your Phone Battery Struggles
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Delve into any picture database and you'll soon discover there is a giant market out there for people feeling all sorts of emotions towards their phones.

Perhaps they're reliving a suppressed childhood memory, perhaps they're questioning a career choice as a stock photo model.

Or perhaps they're remembering exactly what it's like to spend £500 on a phone to have it die after a mere two-hours of constant Instagram scrolling.

If so, we reckon they've got the whole ordeal pretty spot on...

1. When you have a long day of phone-using ahead of you, but for some reason you can't stop looking through your mate's sister's, best friend's, cousin's Facebook album.

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Ahh 'Corfu '06'

2. When you see your casual Internet stalking has just drained a third of your battery in 10 minutes.

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3. When you fall below 50% and realise you don't have a charger with you.

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4. When you find out no one else around you has a charger either.

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5. When you turn your brightness down to conserve battery, then can't really see anything.

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6. When you're on 1% and there's nothing to save you...

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7. Then it finally dies.

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Goodbye, sweet social life

8. Or, even worse, when it dies on 5% when you're mid-sending a text.

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9. When you realise your entire evening plans are ruined because you can't get hold of anyone.

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What could this man POSSIBLY be so angry about?

10. When you have to use a land line instead.

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11. When everyone else around you is on their phones, and you're just sitting there like...

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12. When someone tells you their smartphone's battery actually lasts for three days.

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The classic 'businessman punching his phone' photo

13. But then you realise not obsessively checking your emails every five minutes is actually quite freeing...

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15. And you seem to be having actual conversations with real people around you...

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Friend. Thumbs-up friend.

16. Smartphone who?

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Be free, stock photo people!

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