......and he is Motorola.
This is my cell phone. He's about a year old--maybe a bit more. Until there was a spending ban in place, he only needed recharging occasionally. Yesterday, after a full night of recharging, he developed that sickly chirp at around noon. Now I won't say that it wasn't a busy day, and I did use him quite a bit, but dead after 4 hours???????
The 90-day-spending ban is obviously going to have 2 components:
1. learning about our spending habits for good or for bad, and hopefully steering them toward the "good" behaviors
2. an all-out war with our possessions to see which of us has the stronger will.
The tally so far:
1. washing machine: Timing error on its part--we were able to get the new part in under the wire.
2. batteries for the doorbell: I gave some friends some of our dried food experiments (the more successful ones) because they wanted to try them for camping, and as a "thank-you" they brought us "D" batteries that they had at their house. No money was spent, so we decided we could live with swapping something we already had for something they already had. What do you think--fair?
3. cell phone: I am carrying the charger around with me, and luckily I sell business telephones for a living. I can start carrying my VOIP phone home at night, or using the soft phone on my laptop. This is a battle I think I'm at least more prepared for than other people might be. Then again, it's doubtful other people would invent such stupid experiments....
Ha! Go ahead Universe! We can take it!!!
4 comments:
Barter? TOTALLY allowed, and I would think encouraged, in an experiment like this :)
And your phone has NO idea who's boss, does it? Hehehehehe.
Not stupid! I think you're brilliant!
uh... are you sure it's a good idea to challenge the Universe like that...?
I have a whole conspiracy theory about the cell phones, the battery life and such.
Yes, and it is such a throwaway item as well..buy one now, but in two years it is a dinosaur so you have to buy a new one. Good luck finding a store that carries the batteries, I learned the hard way you can really only find them online. If there was a store the first time I ran into this issue, I was probably too mad to venture to it.
I'm going to write a 1,000 page book documenting the madness of texting as well. Fun feature, useful, but like everything else in life that is fun and useful, it also has its overbearing moments. I feel like mine is a friggin pager. I've obviously got way too many people on the line that just text me. I'm like a Japanese submarine in the dark waters of WWII, getting pinged over and over till I answer and reveal I am alive, awake and devoting time to someone when I'd rather be watching the Hulk, listening to music or...ranting about texting.
Okay I'm done, thanks for letting me rant here!
Book will be out in stores next Fall...unless I finish the one where I rant against people who leave their shopping carts in open parking spaces first.
=) Love, SOR
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