What are we supposed to do when the magic mouse stops working?

Question

Everything was fine last night, until my mouse again lost it's connection. The light was blinking fine, but no connection, I changed batteries (even tho the ones inside showed nearly a full charge), still wouldn't work. I realized, ok, now what? Shouldn't Apple include a corded mouse, for back-up, should the bluetooth one screw up, die, or for whatever reason, not work any longer?
Again, I felt totally frustrated, couldn't even look up the local Apple Store number, (too late to call tech help), or do anything! *** is someone supposed to do? I thought I may have an old, wired mouse somewhere, as I had just moved. Well, somehow I found it, plugged it in, but it didn't work either (I think that tiny, all-too-fragile wire had frayed a bit), so I was really frustrated & helpless feeling. Remembered I had bought the trackpad, so I pulled that out. Well, talk about confusion, the directions talked about first downloading the software, running software update, etc, before trying to connect it!
Since I had no way to do that (I know there's some way to navigate the monitor window, using only the keyboard, but while I tried what I could, I couldn't do anything but go up and down or side to side, no way to access the toolbar, but just now realized, I probably could've accessed the dock, & done something,...
But I turned on the pad & prayed, at first it didn't do anything, but then finally connected.
Once that happened, I turned on the mouse again, and now it worked. So I tried to turn the pad off, but it didn't want to turn off, it kept showing up on the screen.....eventually it turned off, and now things are back to normal.
But my question is what does Apple expect us to do, should the mouse screw up? What can be used if it goes down? They seem to have problems for most people, at times, & it seems a bit like not having a parachute...

Answer 1

Saxman,
I think their parachute effort was System Preferences > Bluetooth > Advanced... > "Open Bluetooth Setup Assistant at startup when no input device is present". In your case the keyboard was there so it probably didn't open. Now that you have a mouse and trackpad, you should have at least one of them connect, so that's a bit of insurance.
I would also add those devices to bluetooth favorites located under the gear icon below the list. Select "show more information" if you don't see the favorites selection.
Regards,
Captfred