Phone Drama
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lsandersonMy phone died while I was at my sister's birthday party. It was terrible! I couldn't check twitter or facebook! I felt desperately like I had to read something current or I would die. Yes, it was a first-world problem. Plus, of course, I had things that I just had to do, and I had to have my phone to do them.
When I got back to Mpls, I went in to the store and handed it over. Now I know what every mother knows on the first day of kindergarten! "Fix it," I said. "I can't live without it tomorrow."
"Oh, it's usually the battery or the buttons." the nice man said. "It should be fine." He lied!
It's dead Jim!
Later that same day, after an eternity with no phone, I called, using the office phone, which I do about once a year. (Usually when I call our service desk to have them reset the 84-digit password.) "It's dead." they said.
"How soon," I said, "can you get me a replacement? I need a phone tomorrow for the election."
"Do you have another Sprint phone?"
"Well," I said. "Maybe." But my ancient Palm phone was dead too! Dead! Dead! Dead!
"What's the cheapest phone you have?" I asked. They're always talking about burner phones on TV, I mean, how much could one cost?
"$100." they said.
That's not cheap!
"But, you can bring it back and we'll only charge $35." they said.
"Well, in that case...." I walked out with $700 LG Flex phone.
When I got back to Mpls, I went in to the store and handed it over. Now I know what every mother knows on the first day of kindergarten! "Fix it," I said. "I can't live without it tomorrow."
"Oh, it's usually the battery or the buttons." the nice man said. "It should be fine." He lied!
It's dead Jim!
Later that same day, after an eternity with no phone, I called, using the office phone, which I do about once a year. (Usually when I call our service desk to have them reset the 84-digit password.) "It's dead." they said.
"How soon," I said, "can you get me a replacement? I need a phone tomorrow for the election."
"Do you have another Sprint phone?"
"Well," I said. "Maybe." But my ancient Palm phone was dead too! Dead! Dead! Dead!
"What's the cheapest phone you have?" I asked. They're always talking about burner phones on TV, I mean, how much could one cost?
"$100." they said.
That's not cheap!
"But, you can bring it back and we'll only charge $35." they said.
"Well, in that case...." I walked out with $700 LG Flex phone.
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Date: 2014-08-17 01:21 am (UTC)With an appropriate First World Solution?
How did the election go (beyond being deadly dull for lack of voters)?
You wuz missed!
Date: 2014-08-17 01:35 am (UTC)I creatively misinterpreted one of my precincts as having too many PSJs and only visited them briefly. It did not seem the hot bed that Brian Coyle's was.
The assistant head judge at the park lamented that you wuz not registering people.
Re: You wuz missed!
Date: 2014-08-17 09:21 am (UTC)I suppose it's nice to be missed, until I reflect on why I might be missed.
I assume Brian Coyle is in the same general vicinity as where all of the previous folderol between incumbent and candidate-making-jump-from-school-board happened? And what was the finger-pointing over? ("Ma, she's making faces at me!")
Re: You wuz missed!
Date: 2014-08-17 12:48 pm (UTC)It's in the district where the brawl happened at the nominating convention. Inside the polling place it was quite calm. Most of the excitement was the phone lines to election headquarters. I've rarely seen so many disappointed media people. The Star Tribune sent a second photographer over because they didn't like the pictures from first one. (No riots?)
I sometimes miss the days o' old, when they'd park the sign trucks in the polling place parking lot and you could just have it towed away...