Technology Hates Me
I have a very bad track record with handheld devices of any kind. But specifically I have a hard time with Cell Phones. I don't exactly know why, but every cell phone that has ever been in my possession has either been stolen, broken, or lost for a long period of time then rediscovered when after I had already made an insurance claim on it.
My first cell phone was a Verizon branded LG flip phone. It worked fine for around 3 months, but then I started getting malloc errors. Yes that malloc(). I warranty claimed this phone 3 times before I saw the light and switched to Cingular due to the 90 bucks worth of overdraft fees that Verizon caused me (long story).
With my switch to Cingular came a RAZR. This has been by far my favorite phone so far, but they are so cheap now I won't buy one out of protest. I paid the full 200 bucks when I bought mine. Anyway, I had went so far as to make custom ring tones from my favorite Muse and Demon Hunter songs, unlocked the phone, and pimped out the firmware with some mods. All meaningless. It was stolen after 4 pithy months of ownership. =(
Next came the Treo. I got this phone from my company after my beloved RAZR was jacked from my locker at the CRC. It worked fine for about 2 months, then it gradually degraded to a point of technological retardation that any mild shock to the casing "knocks" the phone out. It literally turns the phone radio off if you bump it a little bit past "retrieving catsup from a glass bottle" force. It's usually characterized by a high to low crecendo of chimes coming from my pocket at various times of the day.
In addition, this little phone doesn't like batteries. I can't enumerate the number of times that I have missed a call only to find that my phone radio has turned itself off in order to save battery, or it has been "knocked out" as described above. Oh and there was the time that the car charger broke. In the time it took for me to head to Office Depot and spend 30 bucks for a new one I had 13 voice messages.
So the moral of the story is I hate handheld devices, and they hate me. The only one that has been decently reliable so far has been my Crackberry that I use for the office. If my busy life didn't require a cell phone I wouldn't have one. That's 80 bucks a month that I could put to some credit card or student loan payage.
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July 26th, 2006 - 17:07
Technology hates me… me hates technology… simple as pie! lol. dood… i don’t know what it is, but you really suck with cell phones. My lil brick phone from cingular has been the best phone for me… for over two years! SAME ONE! c’mon now dood. insurance is a good thing to have on phones too (what you shoulda had on you ponced razr). I’ve also noticed that a routine helps. Like if my phone isn’t in my right pants pocket or in the dash of my truck, i flip out… even if it’s right beside me. So yeah… neways, just wanted to tell you how terrible you are with cell phones. I agree with you totally. later dood.
p.s. Tomorrow night is gonna rock!
July 26th, 2006 - 17:31
You are retarded. That is the whole point of the blog post…
Why reiterate it? Lrn2Comment.
I addition at the time even if I had insurance on the RAZR it would have cost me $50 to get a new one (which I didn’t have at the time).
July 27th, 2006 - 07:30
Son, this is what you need.
Ain’t that ponce as all get out? When you flip that baby out, every body knows that you are the daddy! Only thing is the price… $599.99… Freaking scary!!! I could buy two of my 2125′s for that! Speaking of the 2125, it’s about time to retire it… I’ve dropped a couple too many times, and it’s been acting up lately.
July 27th, 2006 - 15:06
Fozzy the phone whore. Can we really expect anything else from you?
July 27th, 2006 - 18:55
if your phone being broken is exactly the same as being fixed (ie– it never rings, i just hear your voicemail reminding me to leave you a message, as though i might not know what to do after the beep and might end up shaving my head or blowing something up)… then maybe there is something innerrantly female about your phone. i’m a female, and even though i don’t know what that has in common with your phone, i’m sure it must be the problem.
July 30th, 2006 - 22:53
Your cell phone problem has become OUR cell phone problem b/c we can never get you when we need to….like when you stand us up and don’t come to Athens….or when you don’t show up to church….naughty naughty. But seriously, we missed you this weekend. We really did. I go back to FL tomorrow. I’ll miss you guys! Have a good week and TTYL.
Liz