Some days it just doesn't pay
Nov. 8th, 2004 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI'm home. The weather is nice (in a grey, not quite Puget Sound sort of way) and I have some Phot-work to look forward to.
But Maia's phone is dying, so I go to Sprint to see why it refuses to be charged. It says it's charging, it will even say it's charged, so long as it is plugged in.
The Sprint guy was derisive... the first words out of his mouth were, "This phone is terribly out of date (it's a Nokia, about a year and a half old). Short version... it'll cost 40 bucks to order a battery, and see if that's where the problem lies.
Phooey.
Of course he'd be more than willing to upgrade the phone, a very nice (and up to date, I'm sure) model can be had for $150, less if we commit to another couple of years. He didn't get even a nibble.
Since we have replacement phone (they sent it to us when Maia's phone died, they didn't want her phone, and it came back to life, so she never switched), I figured we'd probably go with that.
On my way to pick her up, at the stables, I stopped in at TJ's to get some cream, for my coffee, a couple loaves of bread and, on a whim, some eggs. Maia's mother calls, from an unknown phone and asks me where I am (which isn't as much of a surprise as it might seem, because I answer my phone as "Staff Sergeant Karney" when I get a blind number. About 2/3rds of the time it's Army related).
After she finds out I'm in SLO, she asks where Maia is, because she can't get ahold of her and someone (i.e. Maia) has to come out to Trona (in the Mojave, about a six hour drive from here) and retrieve her father, and the horse he is riding. Scarlett, it seems, is being too fractious to stay on the weeklong ride, and worse hasn't been drinking.
So, after much deliberation, between she and I, Maia decides to take her horse, and take her father's place(he can drive the horse home). So, while she loads her horse, I head home to make her some supper, and start her packing. In the midst of this we have to get her new phone activated.
The first lady was a nasty thing. The next guy (Doug) was fine, but Maia doesn't do well with thing computery, and so I had to finish the transaction. Happily the chargers for her phone and mine are now compaible, so she has a car-charger to finish loading the battery with.
So, this makes the third week I'm feeling a tad disconnected. It's worse for being at home, because there ought to be someone else in the bed.
But Maia's phone is dying, so I go to Sprint to see why it refuses to be charged. It says it's charging, it will even say it's charged, so long as it is plugged in.
The Sprint guy was derisive... the first words out of his mouth were, "This phone is terribly out of date (it's a Nokia, about a year and a half old). Short version... it'll cost 40 bucks to order a battery, and see if that's where the problem lies.
Phooey.
Of course he'd be more than willing to upgrade the phone, a very nice (and up to date, I'm sure) model can be had for $150, less if we commit to another couple of years. He didn't get even a nibble.
Since we have replacement phone (they sent it to us when Maia's phone died, they didn't want her phone, and it came back to life, so she never switched), I figured we'd probably go with that.
On my way to pick her up, at the stables, I stopped in at TJ's to get some cream, for my coffee, a couple loaves of bread and, on a whim, some eggs. Maia's mother calls, from an unknown phone and asks me where I am (which isn't as much of a surprise as it might seem, because I answer my phone as "Staff Sergeant Karney" when I get a blind number. About 2/3rds of the time it's Army related).
After she finds out I'm in SLO, she asks where Maia is, because she can't get ahold of her and someone (i.e. Maia) has to come out to Trona (in the Mojave, about a six hour drive from here) and retrieve her father, and the horse he is riding. Scarlett, it seems, is being too fractious to stay on the weeklong ride, and worse hasn't been drinking.
So, after much deliberation, between she and I, Maia decides to take her horse, and take her father's place(he can drive the horse home). So, while she loads her horse, I head home to make her some supper, and start her packing. In the midst of this we have to get her new phone activated.
The first lady was a nasty thing. The next guy (Doug) was fine, but Maia doesn't do well with thing computery, and so I had to finish the transaction. Happily the chargers for her phone and mine are now compaible, so she has a car-charger to finish loading the battery with.
So, this makes the third week I'm feeling a tad disconnected. It's worse for being at home, because there ought to be someone else in the bed.
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creepy...
Date: 2004-11-10 01:10 am (UTC)Cheers,
-Teej
Re: creepy...
Date: 2004-11-10 01:21 am (UTC)TK