The Llama and the HTC Evo
The llama last procured a new phone four or five years ago. Additionally, his phone plan was so old that he constantly exceeded his minutes, resulting in a bill several times more than it should be. Surrounded by people fiddling with fancy phones and feeling like an old Luddite, the llama decided to get a really, really new phone. A phone so new it would be full of bugs and issues that would give him things to complain about for months. He decided to get an HTC Evo on launch day, Friday, June 4, 2010.
The llama wore a nice shirt, dress shoes, fedora and a bow tie that day in celebration.
Hearing that some retailers, like Wally's World, would give instant instead of mail-in rebates, the llama visited one before work. He found cell phone sales didn't commence until 0900. At lunch he returned, but the desk was festooned with iPhone fanboys stocking up because of an Apple price drop. Finally able to snare a moment of the clerk's time, the llama asked for an Evo, but the clerk professed ignorance of any such thing. Perhaps the llama meant HTC Hero, he suggested? He could order one of those to arrive in a few days.
The llama explained that the Evo was the new 4G phone. At this, the Apple fanboys became agitated. Being a peace-loving llama, he tried to calm the i-phonatics as he backed quickly away and made his escape.
Back at work, the llama visited the website of RodentHut to order the phone on-line. Pressing the "buy" button, a java exception stack trace appeared in a monstrous error screen. Whoops.
By the end of the day the llama had confused a Wally clerk, been accosted by iPhone fanboys and broken the RodentHut website. All without securing a new phone. Such is the frightening power of the llama.
The llama wore a nice shirt, dress shoes, fedora and a bow tie that day in celebration.
Hearing that some retailers, like Wally's World, would give instant instead of mail-in rebates, the llama visited one before work. He found cell phone sales didn't commence until 0900. At lunch he returned, but the desk was festooned with iPhone fanboys stocking up because of an Apple price drop. Finally able to snare a moment of the clerk's time, the llama asked for an Evo, but the clerk professed ignorance of any such thing. Perhaps the llama meant HTC Hero, he suggested? He could order one of those to arrive in a few days.
The llama explained that the Evo was the new 4G phone. At this, the Apple fanboys became agitated. Being a peace-loving llama, he tried to calm the i-phonatics as he backed quickly away and made his escape.
Back at work, the llama visited the website of RodentHut to order the phone on-line. Pressing the "buy" button, a java exception stack trace appeared in a monstrous error screen. Whoops.
By the end of the day the llama had confused a Wally clerk, been accosted by iPhone fanboys and broken the RodentHut website. All without securing a new phone. Such is the frightening power of the llama.