We both got the same phone. It’s a Motorola V180, which we got because I’ve been wanting a flip phone forEVAH, because I’m a big dork. The guy at the T-Mobile store assured us that it was a way better phone than the ones we had, but like I told Fred, technology is moving at such a fast pace that our phones will likely be obsolete by tomorrow.
We ended up spending about 45 minutes in the store waiting for the guy to get our phones set up and move the phonebooks from the old to new phones, and all that good stuff. While we were there, a guy came in to return a charger he’d bought last week. He only had the credit card receipt and not the printed-out receipt they give you with every purchase, so the salesman (not the one who was waiting on us, but a younger guy who bore a striking resemblance to Alex from Survivor: Amazon) told the customer he couldn’t take the charger back.
The customer got really pissed off, and everyone else in the store kind of whistled and looked around and acted like we didn’t hear the customer giving Billy (the salesman) hell. He threatened to cancel his account, he threatened to sue (okay, maybe not. But he might have, I don’t remember for sure), he asked if Billy was calling him a liar, he used Billy’s name 63 times in a row, he asked for Billy’s card and said he’d be calling corporate headquarters, and the entire time Billy stuck to his guns and said he was so sorry, he just couldn’t do it.
Finally the guy left, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. I mean, I get why the guy was so pissed – I would be, too – but Billy Da Salesman doesn’t make the rules, y’know?
Another ten minutes or so, and we were finally out of there. Fred and I both spent a good long time messing around with our phones. His now plays Green Day’s Basket Case (the actual song, not the tune) when someone calls, and mine plays The Brady Bunch theme, but I might change that to Good Riddance (Time of your Life). I love that song – it always reminds me of ER and Jeanie Boulet singing it a capella during Scott Anspaugh’s funeral.
I’m suddenly struck with the overwhelming need to see that episode again. When I die, I want Jeanie Boulet to sing that song a capella over my coffin.
I suppose I need to get the book out and actually look through it, because I have a feeling there are things my phone can do, about which I have no idea.
I’ll get around to it one of these days, I’m sure.
Miz Poo examines the lady bug.
I want Jeannie Boulez to sing that at my funeral too! I bawled like a baby during that episode. But I bawl over the least little thing, so there.
You’ll probably get a dozen comments at least saying the same two things, but…
1. ME TOO! I’ve loved that song ever since that episode.
2. Seinfeld had that in one of his comedy bits, except about the dawn of the age of cordless phones….how it’s a lot harder to hang up on someone when searching for a button, then when you just slam the phone down on the hook.
Show us your christmas tree? Or are you not doing one this year. I can’t remember
I just told my hubby the other night that I want that song played at my funeral/memorial (we were updating our wills). Everytime I hear that song I think of ER.
The actor that portrays Chase reminds me of Timothy McVeigh.
I think with 24, that the first day of wardrobe and hair is an important one. Because you’re picking out what you’re going to look like for the entire fucking season because of the continuity issues of shooting a show that takes place on one fay. You’d think they’d think about that a little more and suck up to the hair/makeup and wardrobe people a little more.
You know, some flowers and chocolates, maybe some spa gift certificates- “Just don’t give me a mullet the whole season- I’ve been through that on ‘The Lost Boys’!”
Ooooooohhhh nnnnooooooooo!!!! You just “God-damned” Jack Bauer. I would hide if I were you…………Jack Bauer kicks ass and doesn’t take any shit.
Oh, I totally agree with you on S3’s hairdo’s….yuk, yuk and yuk.
Sounds like you are getting back into your excersise and healthy eating. You mentioned issues that you did not deal with when you first lost weight. What are they? (Feel free to mock me in your diary for being horribly nosy.)
Here’s an article about “24”, if you’re interested..
http://www.smh.com.au/news/TV–Radio/Realtime-drama-loses-the-plot/2004/12/2
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“Real-time drama loses the plot
By Greg Hassall
December 21, 2004
If you’ve ever watched Seven’s real-time drama 24, with all its improbable plot twists and internal inconsistencies, you might have wondered if the writers were making it up as they went along. Well, it turns out they were.
In a recent interview with The New York Times before the launch of the fourth season in America, co-creator Robert Cochran admitted that the furthest his writers ever planned ahead was six episodes, and that was during season one. That number steadily declined to the point where, for the fourth series, the writers didn’t know what they were going to do from one week to the next.
Better news for fans is that the new series will not include the character of Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert), whose trials and tribulations made for some of the show’s least satisfying moments. Unfortunately, President Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) and Michelle Dessler (Reiko Aylesworth) have also been written out of the show.
Cochran was coy about the plot of the new series, but did reveal it picks up 18 months after season three. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is off heroin, working as a consultant for the Defense Department and having an affair with the Defense Secretary’s married daughter. But a terrorist sleeper cell is
about to ruin his day.”
My 18 yr. old daughter got a cell phone in August. All was well until she got a boyfriend about 8 weeks ago. She had never gone over her minutes or her 100 free text messages until then. Imagine how high my blood pressure went up when I opened our Verizon bill last week and her phone bill was $246!!!!! She had 811 text messages on it! I don’t think she says 811 words to me in a day. She works around 20 hrs./week, so she is paying us $100 this pay, next pay and $46 the next. When I asked how she could have talked and text messaged that much, she asked, “What else was I supposed to do? I wanted to talk to Jack”. I told her how about pick up a regular phone! She actually is talking on a regular phone to him every night now. I personally think cell phones are the work of the devil! Ha! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
My nephew and I are big “24” fans and he tells me the new season is “Just Jack”. He, of course, says it the way Jack of “Will and Grace” talks about his show. Too funny! (OK this may not translate well in email, but I laugh.)