Dealing with a pay-as-you-go cellphone
Also from Law Dog comes
this hilarious way to deal with your pay-as-you-go cellphone when previous owners friends call their old number (your new one):
This isn't my first rodeo
When I first started seeing Herself, I didn't have a cell-phone. This situation became untenable, so I purchased one of those Pay-As-You-Go phones, and have been -- mostly -- happy ever since.
I find the no-contract thing to be a great relief, and for a little over a dollar a day I get unlimited phone calls and unlimited texts for a month.
Plus, I find that walking into a business, setting a couple of anonymous $20 bills on the counter, and receiving a code that I input into the phone for another months service -- no address required, no information exchanged, no credit card number handed over -- to be damned civilized.
Some more:
Say that you are a Purveyor of Recreational Pharmaceuticals. You get one of these phones, the heat gets too close, you dump it in a garbage bin. No muss, no fuss.
Unfortunately, the phone company doesn't know about the black-market side-business, so when you don't re-up the number after a certain amount of time they re-issue the number.
For example, one of the very first texts I received on my brand-new phone -- I wasn't even sure what a text was at the time -- went something like this:"YO I GOT DA DIME YOU GOT SUM OTHA GREEN? DOLLA!"
Law Dog's solution?
So, I squinted at the manual until I understood how to call a number which had texted, did so, set the phone on the table, waited until the screen announced that the other party had picked up -- then I lit three Black Cat firecrackers and started begging for my life in tones most piteous.
Of course, after the three fireworks went off, I stopped begging. Out of courtesy, you understand. Might have dropped a chair next to the table, too, come to think. Then I dragged the phone off the table, snarled, "Get his [deleted] phone. We'll find every [deleted] [deleted] the thieving mother[deleted] sold my [deleted] to and take it out of their [deleted] skin!"
Law Dog owes me a new keyboard as I have mouthful of a nice 2009 Meritage sprayed all over mine. Much more at the site.
Posted by DaveH at September 22, 2012 7:17 PM