I am an idiot.
I gave in.
I got a cell phone - with a two year plan.
ARGGHHH....
Oh, I had one of those little pay as you go type phones. It was my valentines present three years ago (sooooo very romantic eh?). I can't complain actually, it came in very handy when my son was in the explosion and I spent a lot of time in Michigan at the hospital.
I spent many an hour reading this website and that website, trying to compare plans and coverage and roaming and nights and weekends and contract this and contract that and cancellation clauses and and and....
But I had to make up my mind - fast. My little pay type phone thingie was running out today and I didn't want to put more money into it.
And, at exactly 2:39 AM this morning - the little sombitch beeped with a text message to tell me that I needed to reup or it was gonna die.
It's lucky I didn't flush it down the toilet.
So Sunday afternoon I stopped at the local radio type shack place (I don't want to give any one company a plug here geesh)...and got a new phone. Stayed with the same company as the little pay as you go type phone thingie.
It weighs 3.2 ounces. Is so little. It's a flip thingie with a camera. And the book of instructions for it is 8-1/2 x 11 and 12" thick. I had to use their 2 wheeler to get it out to the jeep.
(Yes, I am one of those commie pinko, gas hog loving jeep drivers - excuse me, my burst of political bullshit there.) (Oh, and please note the extreme sarcasm with that statement.)
I brought the phone home...drug in the book (I think I threw out my back) and the roomies 16 yr old son showed me how to use it after I sat and tried to figure out how to place a call for 6 hours.
It has a phone book, voice dialing, web browser, special ring tones, a calculator and stop watch, alarm clock, tip calculator, world clock, media gallery, text messaging, and a camera with a zoom lense.....oh, and the animation of a little girl chasing a phone when it rings.
ohforgodssake....
All of this so I can call my son and not put long distance calls on the roomies phone bill.
One of the girls I work with summed it up quite nicely. "Just give me a phone that all I have to do is dial it".
Can't someone make a phone like that anymore?
3 comments:
On all phones I've ever seen or played with, if you don't want to use all the fancy features, you can just dial the number you want and hit "SEND". The features are an added bonus for lazy people like myself who can't remember any phone numbers any more. Even better, I hit a single button and speak my boyfriend's name and in a few seconds it starts ringing.
"It's lucky I didn't flush it down the toilet."
Wooh!
Gosh! Your humour is sarcastic and yet you sound so chic!
This is what I call therapeutic sense of humour.
One of the most enjoyable posts of over 1,000 blogs I have read so far since I have been in blogosphere.
Two thumbs up!
Make a phone just for making phone calls? Now that would be a novelty!
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