Izzie Phone Home
The inner serpent got let off her leash today. Not before time too.
Still undecided between waiting for a special deal on some cheap and cheerful smartphone and losing most of the recent month’s top up or just biting the bullet and getting one this week while there’s still some coins in the piggy bank.
I googled most of the phones in my price range and they scored pretty dismally. Of course the geeks who write these sorts of column most likely have some $1,000 gadget in their pocket so anything less than $700 would be an appalling abomination in their eyes let alone the 50 −80 silver sickles that this serpent has in mind.
There was one at a post office that caught my eye on Friday. I guess I could have asked then but Izzie is not a creature comfortable making quick decisions. Too many ‘What if’s and “If only’s” to take into account and anyway I wanted time to consult the Oracle of Google again for more inspiration (and procrastination)
It got many reviews as being one of the best of the budget models and far better than anything I had seen so far. So the inner serpent decided that today was the time to take a second look. After attending to bills and other boring things, I asked the postal clerk if the phone was locked to a network which it wasn’t. That was the make or break bit . I hadn’t seen it on the shelves of any other post offices so it was likely to be the phone version of a bin end. At least with wine there is only one vintage per year. It seems that the phone manufacturers bring out a new model every 3 months.
No point in waiting for the newest supermarket catalogues like originally planned because they might have nothing and if they do it will not be as good and every day that goes by erodes the remaining days on the prepaid voucher.
I nearly died of shock when she scanned the phone and instead of the expected 99, she says that it’s a half price special.
That was very good luck indeed for if the reduced price had been displayed in the window, it would have been gone long ago.
So now I have got the phone I wanted without losing too much prepaid time. So the evening will be devoted to shuffling sim cards, charging batteries and doing other set up stuff and hoping that it will not take 3 hours like it did the first time around last April. After all, there’s a whole bunch of tasty morsels of Goblin Porn from Panama to drool over.
For the third time I get to download that green glowing Scrabble app and here’s hoping that it doesn’t disappear into another black hole for a long long time.
Still undecided between waiting for a special deal on some cheap and cheerful smartphone and losing most of the recent month’s top up or just biting the bullet and getting one this week while there’s still some coins in the piggy bank.
I googled most of the phones in my price range and they scored pretty dismally. Of course the geeks who write these sorts of column most likely have some $1,000 gadget in their pocket so anything less than $700 would be an appalling abomination in their eyes let alone the 50 −80 silver sickles that this serpent has in mind.
There was one at a post office that caught my eye on Friday. I guess I could have asked then but Izzie is not a creature comfortable making quick decisions. Too many ‘What if’s and “If only’s” to take into account and anyway I wanted time to consult the Oracle of Google again for more inspiration (and procrastination)
It got many reviews as being one of the best of the budget models and far better than anything I had seen so far. So the inner serpent decided that today was the time to take a second look. After attending to bills and other boring things, I asked the postal clerk if the phone was locked to a network which it wasn’t. That was the make or break bit . I hadn’t seen it on the shelves of any other post offices so it was likely to be the phone version of a bin end. At least with wine there is only one vintage per year. It seems that the phone manufacturers bring out a new model every 3 months.
No point in waiting for the newest supermarket catalogues like originally planned because they might have nothing and if they do it will not be as good and every day that goes by erodes the remaining days on the prepaid voucher.
I nearly died of shock when she scanned the phone and instead of the expected 99, she says that it’s a half price special.
That was very good luck indeed for if the reduced price had been displayed in the window, it would have been gone long ago.
So now I have got the phone I wanted without losing too much prepaid time. So the evening will be devoted to shuffling sim cards, charging batteries and doing other set up stuff and hoping that it will not take 3 hours like it did the first time around last April. After all, there’s a whole bunch of tasty morsels of Goblin Porn from Panama to drool over.
For the third time I get to download that green glowing Scrabble app and here’s hoping that it doesn’t disappear into another black hole for a long long time.