I'm not a big cell phone user. I don't give my number out to many people because (between you and I) it irritates the crap out of me when I'm out somewhere and my phone rings. I don't want to dig in my purse for a call I'm pretty freaking sure can wait until I get home. I'm not home! Leave me alone! It's not like I don't have an answering machine. For Pete's sake!
Okay, I'm breathing. I'm fine. I really am. Anyway, I kinda don't like it when I get calls on my cell phone. I more or less carry it for emergencies.
And a clock.
Pretty much the only person who calls me on my cell is Brian. A couple of times it's rang when he's been standing right next to me and we both look at each other like, "Huh? Who could that possibly be?" (Usually the school, in case you were wondering.)
So, all that was to explain that when I found out Qwest would no longer be offering wireless, I was a little less than thrilled to have to spend my time figuring out a new carrier, costs, yadda yadda yadda for something I barely care about anyway. (My priorities were a free phone and a monthly bill that would stay the same or maybe even go down.)
Still, I was kinda excited to get a new phone. My old phone was so old it didn't even know how to text. Not that I wanted to text, but it'd be nice if my phone at least knew how to do it.
Well, after a few months of pretending I wouldn't have to do this, I finally decided to get it all worked out over Memorial Day weekend. I ended up on the phone with Verizon... in India. Shockingly, language was not a barrier and the lady on the other end (with her fake Americanized name) was very helpful. By the time we got off the phone, I felt so comfortable with her that I almost asked for her real name, but didn't know if that'd be offensive or not. That's okay though. I know the important part. Her favorite color is red.
Wanna know how I know?
Hee hee.
So Verizon has a free phone deal going on (free=good) and there are plenty of phones to choose from. Nice India lady starts describing phones to me with features I know nothing about. It made me think of Anna's post. I don't really care, I just want a phone I can talk on!
Feeling a little confused by all the stuff she's rambling off to me, I quick-like went online to see if I could just scroll through some pictures of phones. Guess what I see? Go ahead guess.
"Is that a red phone? Is that red phone one of the free ones?"
"The Samsung blah blah blah comes in red, yes ma'am."
"Is that a good phone?" (As if it mattered. I just didn't want to seem like a total idiot.)
"The Samsung blah blah blah with blah blah blah features? Yes ma'am, that's a good phone."
"And it's red," I say. "I'll take it."
Check out my new phone:
Oh yeah, baby. It's a Snapshot so it takes pictures. It also has some sort of music player feature AND it knows how to text. Course, none of that matters because I'm only paying for the ability to make a phone call. But that's okay, because this phone is smarter than my other phone because it knows how to do more stuff!
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And I'm now completely color coordinated:
4 comments:
Now that is awesome!
Your so funny! I love your new phone. For some reason a cool looking phone alway's makes everyone feel pretty cool...oh wait maybe that's just me trying to be cool.
Red phone's rock....mine is read too!
loser me...
Red phone's rock....Mine is RED too!
Not just the phone and the toe nails, the phone, the nails and the toe ring.
Congratulations, yeah for new phones. Although I wish I could be non-dependent on mine like you are yours. But we don't have a house phone and I kind of need it for work so until I get a house phone and quit working... which will probably be never. :)
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