Don’t phone me…
Grandad September 23rd, 2008
For the third time in my life, I’m trying to get used to a new mobile phone.
Yes. I have a new one, thanks to the Blog Post of the Month Award.
No. I didn’t win it. Our K8 did.
Herself has been using my original and very first mobile phone. It is still in perfect working order apart from the battery being worn out, so it needs recharging all the time. Not that that makes any difference, because she never answers the damn thing anyway.
She has had her eye on my phone for a while. Mine is also quite old, but it has a colour screen and hers was only monochrome. You know what women are like about colour.
Then, our K8 won the award, and part of her prize was a new phone. With only the minimum or persuasion [that involved nitric acid and an ants’ nest] she agreed to give me her old one, as she didn’t need it any more.
It’s a Nokia 5310 that does all sorts of weird and wonderful things like play music, games, take photographs and browse the Interweb. Hidden amongst all the gizmos is a telephone, which is what I wanted. It is very thin, which is another thing I wanted.
It comes with all sorts of cables and things, so I connected it to my PC. It asked if I wanted to upgrade my software, as my old one was out of date. Foolishly, I gave it the nod. It updated all right, but it wiped all my phone numbers. So if you don’t hear from me, you now know why.
One thing about it that really pisses me off though – somehow [and I have no idea how it happened], it seems to have filled up with business people. Since I started using it, they won’t stop ringing me, and asking me to do boring things, like work.
I wish they’d get out of it. Why can’t they live in their own phones? Why can’t they leave me alone?
I like the new phone.
It would be a shame to have to dump it.
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Don’t worry I won’t be calling you. Last time I did all I got was a gravelly voice on the other end asking me what I was wearing and if I’d been a bad boy.
For shame.
Maxi - That would have been Herself. She has a habit of answering my phone…
I suppose this is true of many countries where the people are poor. I have seen it in Mexico . You are browsing a geneal store and come across “large” cell phones for sale and realise they are models we all discarded/replaced 15 ? years ago. Talk about “Life on Mars.” Very strange feeling. Did you get that BBC series in Ireland by the way. The U.S. copy opens here next month.
-dear God man, its the 21st Century version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. You will be seeing pods very soon; throw the damn thing at a tourist and run like hell!
TT - Are you suggestion that Ireland is a Third World country? You could be right. Though we did see ‘Life on Mars’. I enjoyed the first series….
John O - D’you think so? Should I pack it with Semtex first?
Who are these strange people Grandad? Are you sure you are not hearing things?
No Grandad it isn’t that good. I spent a week there one night.
Semtex is always my choice, neat, clean and productive!
The one I won did all that as well.
Until some motherfucker stole it a week after it arrived.
Grandad,
Went to Gravitar to add an image, thought I better since we are now talking about invasions and body snatchers, oh well just another day in paradise. (and who is responsible for the damn parking lot?)
Kate - Of course I’m hearing voices. It wouldn’t be much use as a phone if I didn’t?
TT - Why don’t you spend a month in Ireland some day?
John O - Also extremely plentiful in this part of the country. Every damned rabbit hole is stuffed with the stuff since the cease-fire.
Bock - Serves you right for getting pissed. At least you know the thief is getting all the calls now?
John O - So you do have a face? As for Paradise, you could always get a taxi out?
So what’s your number again?
666
ah not a good one but it works in a pinch, and as for the taxi, I’m afraid it would be driven by a towel-head and I would never come back!
What is this?
Some sort of Radio Telegraph with voices?
Science Fiction, I tell ya’!
Next you’ll be tellin’ me that folks all over the world will be able to communicate with each other in the blink of an eye.
Ha! Hogwash!
Haha next you’ll be tellin’ me that man can fly!
I spent several months in Ulster. Does that count at all at all ?
Too many offers of work? Send some of them my way! Like many others at the moment, I am newly
unemployedself-employed and could do with some contract work. Pity I don’t do the stuff you do….Ah crap, Bock, did some git really steal your phone!!! Typical, there’s no point in having facny stuff coz someone’s just gonna steal it. Now, I must admit I’m completey lost on the semtex / life on mars stuff but I do still have my first mobile - a brick with 9 hours standby. I thought I was so cool, but was prob just a geek git. Boo Hoo.
PS - any more frenchy stories??
John O - Did you ever think of upgrading your face? Everything seems to be ‘upgradable’ these days?
Brianf - I thought you weren’t due for release for another couple of weeks? Go back to sleep. You’ll feel better.
TT - Several months in Ulster? You poor poor man. That explains a lot.
Karyn - It’s OK. I don’t do the stuff I do either. I’m sending over a container with the files, and I have found how to redirect all my calls.
Charmed - You want more Frenchy stories? I thought people would get bored of them?
I’ll try not to phone you… Although I’m not we even had each other’s number in the first place…
thought about it, but I don’t have the $’s it would take to make any kind of improvement so here I am, warts and all!
I’m surprised it’s not the Herald asking for what you took to France back…
Don’t blame me. Grannymar ratted you out
Reading this, I just had to give you this link. One of my kids sent it to me. It sounds like this new phone might be the answer… it probably screens calls….
http://www.flixxy.com/sumsing-turbo-3000-cellphone.htm
Damnit, Jane - I WANT ONE!!