Brian’s cell is on its last legs. He mentions needing to get a new one, but he wants a “free” one. I look online, he’s due for an upgrade. I find some free cell phones. I tell him about them last night (I was ready to shut down; but went over to the Cingular site instead). I pull up the free phones.
He said “I want one like yours”.
“You do? Are you sure?”
“Yes, your phone fits my holster.”
That’s a good reason, I guess.
So, I look for my phone. I find it, I can get it online. But it ain’t free. It’s just as much as mine was. No matter. Then I ask him about a bluetooth headset. “I don’t want a headset.” *sigh* Here we go again. “You sure?” He asks if this phone has a speakerphone option. I look, I see that it does. “Yes.”
Then I have him try my headset. I tell him how convenient it is.
He wants a headset. Like mine. Uh, no, not a good idea. It will be bad enough that we’ve got the same exact phone. Same headsets could get confusing. I order him the next step up from mine (there’s also a thirty dollar rebate with this headset). I place the order. I get the confirmation that the order has been placed.
Then it dawns on him. His power chargers won’t work with this phone.
“No! No! I don’t want that phone, my chargers won’t work with it. We talked about this! I want a phone that my stuff works with.” I just look at him.
I find the contact phone number for Cingular. I stand up and start dialing the phone. He asks me what I’m doing. I tell him I’m going to see if I can cancel the order. He said “no, don’t do that”.
*sigh*
I told him that he shouldn’t have yelled at me. He agrees, said he was sorry.
Then I started looking for compatible chargers, both for the wall and for the vehicles. It appears they are now officially available. When I got extras for my cell back in October, they were for a different version Samsung phone. I could have gotten a refund, but that was only $14.95, they wanted it in the original packaging (cellophane…who keeps that?) and I’d have to pay for shipping back, too much trouble. So, I order two of each.
Then I pull out the vehicle charger I was given from the Cingular Store when I purchased my cell. I’ve had no reason to use it at this point. Guess what? It’s not for my phone, it’s for the other one. Since I never opened it, I’m taking it back today. I want what need for this phone.
Oh, and I don’t know if I’d mentioned this, but I was looking at Brian’s current phone a few weeks ago and it’s chock full of girls’ phone numbers. What the hell? Brian is most definitely not a player. This phone was a replacement for his original phone. It was a refurb. Someone never cleaned out the memory. Lovely, eh? So, I’ll be cleaning that out (luckily I can do that via the computer) and transferring all the numbers he will want to the SIM card. That will make it easier for him.
And we’ll be getting the “voice call” service on both of our phones. I’ll get it to learn how to use it and make it easier to teach him. So, he won’t have to be fumbling on the phone while he’s driving. And that gives me some peace of mind.
He did say “maybe we should get one for Mark”. Excuse me? Spend almost two hundred dollars on a cell for your brother? I don’t think so. Some of the free phones are pretty nice. And he’s not due for an upgrade just yet.
