fairsheet
Senator
(The following is the honest to God truth)..
13 months ago (as I now know), with my wife's urging, I got a new cellphone - one of those "smart" phones. Now and again, the ringer would stop working. I figured out that if I pulled out the sim card and reinserted it, all will be good. Eventually though...it quit ringing AND my "fix" did to. The godamned thing wouldn't work no matter what.
So...I took it to the cellphone geek, he messed around for a little bit, checked his computer and said essentially, "Bummer dude, ya shoulda bought the insurance." He said he could swing me a deal on a new one, but I'd have to pay some $12 a month for next 2 years for it. That wasn't acceptable of course, so I took it to the MAIN geek office. That guy diddled around with it for awhile and then said....the same godamned thing the other kid did.
Personally, I don't care if the thing EVER rings, but my bosses do, so I had to do something. I found my old phone in a drawer and had 'em switch everything over to that one. So now that I had this now-worthless p.o.s. phone, what'd I have to lose? I threw it on the (carpeted) floor a half a dozen times to see what that'd do. Alas, nothing. Then I tossed it off the 12 foot-high ceiling a few times, with no luck. Finally, I tossed it up into the ceiling fan, which bounced if off the far wall and onto the floor. Then I tried it once more and Voila!....it works again!
Imagine that. So...do I take it back and have the geek switch the old phone back to this one? I just might - just to piss him off.
13 months ago (as I now know), with my wife's urging, I got a new cellphone - one of those "smart" phones. Now and again, the ringer would stop working. I figured out that if I pulled out the sim card and reinserted it, all will be good. Eventually though...it quit ringing AND my "fix" did to. The godamned thing wouldn't work no matter what.
So...I took it to the cellphone geek, he messed around for a little bit, checked his computer and said essentially, "Bummer dude, ya shoulda bought the insurance." He said he could swing me a deal on a new one, but I'd have to pay some $12 a month for next 2 years for it. That wasn't acceptable of course, so I took it to the MAIN geek office. That guy diddled around with it for awhile and then said....the same godamned thing the other kid did.
Personally, I don't care if the thing EVER rings, but my bosses do, so I had to do something. I found my old phone in a drawer and had 'em switch everything over to that one. So now that I had this now-worthless p.o.s. phone, what'd I have to lose? I threw it on the (carpeted) floor a half a dozen times to see what that'd do. Alas, nothing. Then I tossed it off the 12 foot-high ceiling a few times, with no luck. Finally, I tossed it up into the ceiling fan, which bounced if off the far wall and onto the floor. Then I tried it once more and Voila!....it works again!
Imagine that. So...do I take it back and have the geek switch the old phone back to this one? I just might - just to piss him off.
