I’m really not one to fight with my toys, and I pride myself on being the master of my technology world. However, I’m quite annoyed with my phone today. It humiliated me. That’s right - my phone did. Intentionally. With malice. You see I’ve been neglecting my cell phone, because in my new home I get totally crap coverage. I can hardly get a call, and when I do, I usually lose it. I’ve actually been thinking of installing a Z Boost wireless extender in order to make the cell situation tolerable. Anyway, lately I’ve just had my cell phone forwarding to the home phone, and I think my cell phone may be feeling neglected, because it played a trick on me today. My wife was having issues with our new cordless phone running out of juice, and the manual was unclear as to if I could transfer calls from one handset to another (they all run on the same line). Anyway, I wasn’t sure, and didn’t want her to get dropped from her conference call, so I borrowed a neighbor’s corded phone as a fallback. So after she got off the phone, I was testing the cordless by calling my cell phone, but since the reception is so bad, I had the phone in one spot by the window and was just using the hands-free bluetooth from the car in order to talk without moving the cell phone. But it wouldn’t pick up. So I clicked the green button on the bluetooth again…no sound. I’m cursing, and then I notice my phone is lit up. The bluetooth has initiated a call. It has called my neighbor back. The one who had just lent me the phone. I just called her and (it would appear to her) just cursed at her for giving me a bad phone. Nice one, dude. I think back - oh man, what did I say exactly while cursing at my bluetooth?
‘Why won’t this <<expletive>> work!?’
Wow, that was a classy move. So I ask you, would it have not taken some evil wizard to devise that perfect way for me to put my foot in my mouth? How did my phone manage to do that? I could not have thought of a better way to show my nice, new neighbor that I am a complete clown. Really.
My phone and I are no longer on speaking terms.