OK, here's what's going on with my phone. First the backstory.
Sunday, 23 August 2015 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carose59"Anything That Takes A Double-A Battery Is All Right In My Book!"*
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Pat had a cell phone for a while, then the year she died, she got a new one and I got my first one. (This was before she died, in case that wasn't obvious.) The whole family-plan thing. We were talking about getting my mother one, also on the family plan.
Only she died. So I gave my mother her phone with no guilt or hesitation, since we'd already talked about it.
She doesn't use it. She doesn't even carry it, or keep it charged. It makes me crazy. And when I bring it up, she starts talking about getting something cheaper, which from what I can tell doesn't exist.
Anyway, she's on her second phone and I'm on like my fourth. I hate new phones. I don't want it to be smart. I want it to flip or slide or something. If I were given a choice between something brand new and brilliant, and one of the old brick-like ones, I would be hard-pressed to choose. So buying a new phone pisses me off.
Yesterday I had the conversation with my mother again, about the phone. It isn't even in her house, I still have it from the last time I left mine at work or something, and that's been months. But she wants to keep it, has decided she really should carry it with her, which is good.
What's wrong with my phone is, the screen has gone blank. I can still make and receive calls, but that's as far as it goes. All my contacts are gone again. I should try learning something sometime.
So after we had the conversation, I suggested I change sim cards and she keep my phone and I use hers. It actually does less than my phone used to, but of course my phone now does exactly what she wants to do with it (if she ever does anything with it), so it's a win-win.
And the part that I try not to think about when this subject comes up: if I get rid of the other phone, Pat's phone number becomes some stranger's phone number. This is a stupid thing to spend money on every month, but I don't want to stop, so it's good that there's a better reason than that attached to it.
*Ray Magliozzi
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Pat had a cell phone for a while, then the year she died, she got a new one and I got my first one. (This was before she died, in case that wasn't obvious.) The whole family-plan thing. We were talking about getting my mother one, also on the family plan.
Only she died. So I gave my mother her phone with no guilt or hesitation, since we'd already talked about it.
She doesn't use it. She doesn't even carry it, or keep it charged. It makes me crazy. And when I bring it up, she starts talking about getting something cheaper, which from what I can tell doesn't exist.
Anyway, she's on her second phone and I'm on like my fourth. I hate new phones. I don't want it to be smart. I want it to flip or slide or something. If I were given a choice between something brand new and brilliant, and one of the old brick-like ones, I would be hard-pressed to choose. So buying a new phone pisses me off.
Yesterday I had the conversation with my mother again, about the phone. It isn't even in her house, I still have it from the last time I left mine at work or something, and that's been months. But she wants to keep it, has decided she really should carry it with her, which is good.
What's wrong with my phone is, the screen has gone blank. I can still make and receive calls, but that's as far as it goes. All my contacts are gone again. I should try learning something sometime.
So after we had the conversation, I suggested I change sim cards and she keep my phone and I use hers. It actually does less than my phone used to, but of course my phone now does exactly what she wants to do with it (if she ever does anything with it), so it's a win-win.
And the part that I try not to think about when this subject comes up: if I get rid of the other phone, Pat's phone number becomes some stranger's phone number. This is a stupid thing to spend money on every month, but I don't want to stop, so it's good that there's a better reason than that attached to it.
*Ray Magliozzi