Thursday, June 19, 2008

Day 41 - Slight Cheating

OK, my cell phone was just not going to make it for 60 more days, and it started interfering with my job, but I was not about to give Motorola a dime for making a battery that couldn't even last as long as my contract, so I checked Ebay "just in case."

$4.95 INCLUDING shipping got me a new battery, and my phone can actually make calls again. It's amazing.

So, does that make it less cheating?

I'd feel really guilty about this if I weren't so darned happy that I have a working phone.

And, it's time again for some obsessed ex wife repellent:

An amazingly fun trip to Seattle, and yes, we really are that happy. (YAY!) Wait until you see the second anniversary pictures--coming in September!

2 comments:

Susie H said...

Love the matching smiles :)

And perhaps you can think of the person who sent the battery as "providing a service" by fixing your phone?

Anonymous said...

Interesting post. They really don't want to make batteries to last as long as the phone, do they?? My battery for my VirginMobile Oystr (which I bought nearly two years ago for $30) gave up the ghost a few days ago. When I visited the VirginMobile store to buy a new battery, the guy behind the counter said they had no batteries for sale. "You could buy one on-line," he said, "but honestly, it'd be cheaper just to buy a new phone." So I bought a new Marbl (is VirginMobile allergic to the letter "e"?) for $15. Guess this is why our landfills are filling up. But I do plan to recycle my old phone....

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