Disjointed Digression

With Verizon, I have the “new every two” as part of my calling plan. A few weeks ago, my two years was almost up, so I went into the local Verizon store and picked out a phone that I wanted to upgrade to. I picked the Samsung SCH-a930.
I got to the counter and waited for the person in front of me was finished. I noticed that it took him a long time. When I got to the counter, I was told that the store was having problems with their computer system. A really loooong time. I figured I’d wait, I had nothing else to do since it was a night off for me. So I told them I’d wait. I was told that it might be over an hour, that was at nine thirty. At ten fifteen I was told that the store would call me and let me know when everything was done. So I went home and goofed off on the computer. At about noon, when I was planning on going to bed, the UPS guy showed up with a new Heatsink/fan for my PC. My PC had been running a little hot. I installed the Heatsink/fan, and again as I was going to bed, I was interrupted, Verizon called and said everything would be ready soon. At about 1:30 I had my new phone, came home and crashed.
As for the phone itself, I know it looks like a pager when its closed, but I think that’s part of what makes it cool. It’s different. I was thinking of getting a silver razr, but figured that since I already had a black razr, and that razrs were everywhere, I’d get something different. I must say that after using the phone (as much as I use my cell phone) for a few weeks, that I really dig it. It has good reception, and I good volume. I don’t think I will ever use all the features. Honestly, I have a digital camera, so I hardly ever use the camera on a phone, I have an ipod, so I don’t ever use a phone as a music player. A phone as a music player would drain the phone battery too quickly, in my opinion. Overall I dig the phone, it’s different, cool looking, and works really well.
Even though it took a long time to get it from Verizon, I think it was worth it. ANd I really can’t fault Verizon, computer problems happen.

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