Archive for March 23rd, 2010

Mar 23 2010

Phoning It In

Published by under Country Life

I got a new cell phone a few days ago. Before the gadget-minded among you get all excited, I hasten to add that it’s supposed to get better reception here in Hooterville, and that’s the only reason for getting it.

Cell phones being the complicated and annoying things they are, the new one has to be programmed and somehow the old info has to be transferred to the new one, and if you do it in the wrong order or just plain wrong, it won’t work. Not only that, our tech person told me that if it isn’t done correctly, we could be charged the whole price for the thing instead of the discounted price.

Despite the fact that she emailed me detailed instructions on how to do this, I was betting on my Calamity Suzy skills and general techtardness to screw it up.

Fortunately, there happens to be a Verizon store in town now, and Megan happened to be stopping by there anyway on her way to work. Supposedly they offer a 25% discount to hospital workers, so she wanted to talk to them about that.

I packed up all the stuff that came with the new phone, plus the old phone and the instructions, thrilled that I’d be spared a trip to town and having to deal with the phone. Yay!

My sister called me a few hours later to tell me that the only cell tower around here had been vandalized, so no programming was possible, at least until it’s fixed (though, in the mysterious way of cell phones, they still work).

I couldn’t stop laughing.

Also, the Verizon employee had never heard of the discount, so he’s supposed to look into that. All in all, not a lot achieved on that particular trip.

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