I’m mortified.
I don’t really quite know how this happened. I think I just got caught up in one of those “shopping moments.” Have you ever done that? You come home with a purchase and wonder, “Now, what came over me?”
I told y’all some time ago that I was going to get a new cell phone. I thought I was seeking what I called an “Amish Cell Phone.” Others might call it a “Granny Phone.” I was looking at that little Jitterbug phone on-line, but to get it meant that I had to change phone services. That seemed like so much trouble … so I procrastinated.
Last week, I was in Midlothian, Texas, and my old cell phone gasped for the last time. I took advantage of a break to run to an AT&T store to purchase a new one.
If you have been out looking for a phone lately, you know that it can be pretty overwhelming. They have tons of them on the shelves. I swear I looked for something simple. But, all of them had those keyboards for texting … and I simply wouldn’t use that.
That little fella who was helping me showed me an Apple iPhone, and all I can plead is temporary insanity. Yes, I bought one.
I couldn’t even make a phone call on it until I clipped my long fingernails (just when they were looking so good and I had actually polished them!). You can’t enter anything with your fingernails, it has to be the pad of your finger. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a lot of time to spend with the salesman learning much about it, so the first time it rang, I couldn’t figure out how to answer it! I’m pathetic.
Marcia has been giving me some tips about the many applications available, but I haven’t gotten brave enough to try the ocarina like she did. Besides, I don’t think the world is quite ready for my “musical talents,” and I don’t want to get spit all over my new cell phone!
I’ve discovered, though, that I really needed an iPhone, because I didn’t have enough guilt. Now, I can access my e-mail at any time and feel guilty about not ever replying. I’ve entered all my family birthdays on the calendar, so I can instantly see whose card I forgot to send. I have a list of things to do in the “notes,” so I can immediately feel remorse about all the things I keep avoiding. I can see the time and know I am late. I can watch our retirement funds dwindle, I can take pictures I will never use, and I can check the weather for Denton, Texas without walking over to the window.
Best of all, it has one of those GPS systems! I can instantly know how lost I really am. I’m sitting in my office right now looking at the satellite view of my location. It has me pinpointed in my neighbor’s swimming pool. I guess that’s close enough. Obviously, if I thought I was going to settle for a simple cell phone, I was all wet.
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Hilarious that you post this now! My phone is dying, and I was glancing at the cell phones in the window of a store and there was a big poster for an iPhone, and I started thinking…hmmm…
Now I’m like you, all over the very basic functions, so I don’t know *what* I’m thinking. But you’re enabling. That’s all I know
michelle of bleeding espressos last blog post..love thursday: care package from mom
“Enabler” is my middle name…no wait, I think “Procrastinate” is my middle name. I dunno. But, I bet if YOU get one, you’d figure it out in a heartbeat. It does so many things it will take THIS old geezer the rest of her pitiful life to figure it out.
Need a new acronym: LHWE
Laughing hysterically with empathy. Thank goodness we are with Verizon so I couldn’t be tempted down one of those paths to the netherworld. It was upgrade time last week and all I wanted was a little phone with big buttoms and speed dial.
What came home takes pictures, plays music, has GPS, does texting, and receives email. What it doesn’t do because I haven’t figured it out yet is speed dial.
It is a conspiracy to make the already over the hill feel as if the downward slide is getting steeper.
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You made me laugh so hard… I dropped mine (for the fourth time, actually the fifth, but I caught it before it hit the tile the last time) it still works, but my ocarina sounds a bit wonky, though that could me. (You don’t have to spit on the guitar frets or the piano keyboards.)
Hold on to yours, our relative from England lost hers the other night and no one has turned it in….
Thanks for the link. Now, if you can’t find your way home and don’t want to type your address each time you’re lost, there’s an app for that, too.
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I haven’t started dropping mine yet. But, I seriously need to put a password on it and turn it off frequently! If that sucker gets stolen, my whole life will be gone! Quit telling me about applications until I figure out how to use the ones I have
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Haha that’s pretty awesome that you got an iPhone. While I’m pretty sure that I’m not going to get one myself (I try not to get caught up in having to stay with the latest fashions), it sounds like you’ve found quite a new toy.
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I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to get one, too, Derek, because I’m not very fashionable either! But, I can tell that this new “toy” will be great fun once I figure it out!
Can you tell how green with envy I am through that thing, too?:mrgreen:
I see the commercials for them and I start drooling, seriously. The only reason I don’t have one is because everyone I know with At&T in this area is always complaining about the service. If it ever becomes available for Verizon, I will have one in a heartbeat!!!!
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Youwould figure out how to use it! And, I know that as many pictures as you take with your phone you would love that feature! I couldn’t use the pictures I took before, because I couldn’t upload them to my computer…technological dunce that I am. Doesn’t Verizon have something similar, though? I bet it does! Envy me after I learn what I am doing
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