I dropped my cell phone the other day, and it went blank. I wasn’t able to turn it back on. I thought it was dead. It really freaked me out, because my cell phone is my only phone. What would I do if someone needed to call me? What if I needed to call someone? Aahh!
I went to AT&T right away. I was nervous because I hadn’t done any phone research. What was the best model? What was a good price? Do I even need any of the bells and whistles? Why don’t they sell the StarTAC phone anymore? Before I started browsing, I went up to the guy at the counter and said, “I dropped this phone and now it won’t turn on. Is it broken forever?” He took it from me, took the battery out, put it back in, and turned the phone on. I felt like an idiot. But at least he didn’t call me “Slick” or insult me in some other way. Thank God for small favors!
So what will I do if I really do break my phone forever? It’s sure to happen some time. Maybe I need to constantly be watching the cell phone market and have my top two choices selected at all times. Maybe I should have a little fund set aside for an emergency cell phone purchase.
Or maybe I’ll just pretend everything’s okay. That’s so much easier.
Do you always drive with your truck door open and while taking pictures? Great-googly-moogly!
And we thought you weren’t dare-devilish.
Beth – I’m surprised you didn’t notice the fact that he is wearing tennis shoes! Now THAT’S dare-devilish in Brad world 🙂 he, he!
(hehe … you used my favorite saying, do you remember?)
Anyway, I’m pretty sure the guy at the store was just taking a guess and amazed himself.
Now, the real question about the tennis shoe is … have you been dare-devilish enough to smell the sock inside?
I like your shoes – let’s see a picture of those bad boys.
For the record, I wouldn’t have known about the ‘battery-out’ trick either. (But then again, I’m a techno-idiot, so it’s not saying much.)
Dennis and I have done the research for you…
I told Lloyd that he spelled Denis wrong, and that got me to thinking about Michele-with-one-l. I propose that we eliminate all double letters from your friends’ names. Henceforth Peggy shall be known as Pegy, Annette is Anete, Lloyd is Loyd, and our last name is Somer. Any seconds?
Second!
And let’s ADD double letters for those who have none: Brrad, Laurren, Carrol … uh oh, Beth’s doesn’t work nicely. Forget it.
You don’t like Bbeth?
Yea, mme nneither.
[Excuse me, but I believe that should have read “Cap’n!…” – if you have Scotty in mind, at least…]
Thank you for sharing your technology story, as I regularly feel technostupid. Every time I want to use the presenter to show something from my laptop (computer…ahem…) in a class, something doesn’t connect right and I shuffle to the next portable to get Brady to rescue me. How many times just this spring would you say, Brady – about 4,928.6, give or take? Anyway, then he finds something really simple, like one of the cords wasn’t pushed in all the way – yesterday all he had to do was hit Function-F8 at the same time – WHICH I HAD BEEN DOING ALSO! – and everything was Jim Dandy. Maybe I need to take my battery out and put it in again…