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Retail Therapy
Sep. 2nd, 2008 11:04 amI bought a new cell phone yesterday.
I've wanted one (a new phone, not necessarily that new phone) for awhile now, but have avoided getting one because it would have meant giving up my awesome phone plan and getting a new one (my biggest beef is by-the-minute plans when I have a by-the-second plan). Every salesman during the last year was clear on that point - my plan would not be grandfathered into a new phone.
So I avoided it for a long time. Then the switch to 10-digit dialing came to Cowtown. I figured, if I was going to reprogram my phone, I might as well get a new one. If you're thinking "how hard could reprogramming the old phone be", well the answer is "harder then you're thinking. You cannot move the cursor to the beginning of the number and prepend the area code on my ancient phone - you have to erase the number and retype it.
Yesterday I went down to Future Shop. I was going to get the phone there, but the sales guys where ignoring me. This turned out to be a good thing because I went to the Phone Experts in Northland Mall instead. Talking to the young lady there, I once again asked, "can I keep my old plan" she was the first to say "Let me see if I can" rather then a blanket "no you can't".
With a little bit of farting around, she managed to do it. So I now have a shiny new cell phone with my wonderful old plan, plus a re-bundling of some extras that will cost me a few bucks more, but gives me texting and web access. I'm starting to thing that I might need texting to talk to anyone under the age of 20. Plus that whole Internet thing is starting to look like more then just a silly fad.
An interesting thing happened as I was programming my new phone: The triage of the old phone numbers. I have numbers that I have not called in years, possibly since before the time I programmed my old phone. These numbers I got rid of. Not to save any memory (because I am never going to need to conserve the 500 number memory of my new phone) but as a sort of mental house cleaning. It also spelled out for me how many phone numbers I don't have, or how many I have that are probably wrong. So if I ask you (in person) what your phone numbers are, don't be surprised.
I've wanted one (a new phone, not necessarily that new phone) for awhile now, but have avoided getting one because it would have meant giving up my awesome phone plan and getting a new one (my biggest beef is by-the-minute plans when I have a by-the-second plan). Every salesman during the last year was clear on that point - my plan would not be grandfathered into a new phone.
So I avoided it for a long time. Then the switch to 10-digit dialing came to Cowtown. I figured, if I was going to reprogram my phone, I might as well get a new one. If you're thinking "how hard could reprogramming the old phone be", well the answer is "harder then you're thinking. You cannot move the cursor to the beginning of the number and prepend the area code on my ancient phone - you have to erase the number and retype it.
Yesterday I went down to Future Shop. I was going to get the phone there, but the sales guys where ignoring me. This turned out to be a good thing because I went to the Phone Experts in Northland Mall instead. Talking to the young lady there, I once again asked, "can I keep my old plan" she was the first to say "Let me see if I can" rather then a blanket "no you can't".
With a little bit of farting around, she managed to do it. So I now have a shiny new cell phone with my wonderful old plan, plus a re-bundling of some extras that will cost me a few bucks more, but gives me texting and web access. I'm starting to thing that I might need texting to talk to anyone under the age of 20. Plus that whole Internet thing is starting to look like more then just a silly fad.
An interesting thing happened as I was programming my new phone: The triage of the old phone numbers. I have numbers that I have not called in years, possibly since before the time I programmed my old phone. These numbers I got rid of. Not to save any memory (because I am never going to need to conserve the 500 number memory of my new phone) but as a sort of mental house cleaning. It also spelled out for me how many phone numbers I don't have, or how many I have that are probably wrong. So if I ask you (in person) what your phone numbers are, don't be surprised.
