I Hate Phones

First week I'm here with interview(s) around the corner and what does my phone decide to do at about 8pm last night?  That's right, it dropped service.  I got home that night and turned it on and off, took the battery out, left it out all night hoping that in the morning it would work again... nope!

I was going to spend the day working on my interview homework for tomorrow.  I added a trip to Verizon to the agenda figuring it would be some quick simple fix... nope again!  I got to the stop and the guy at the counter (Chris, who was pretty cute I might add) was pretty confused on why it wouldn't be working.  He ended up calling customer service and they said to restore the phone so we did that... nothing.  So the next option is to re-flash (I think that was code for update) the phone.  However, the store I was at didn't have the equipment to do that so I had to trek it over to the store on Michigan Ave, which is about a 20-25 min walk... it's 95 degrees out, sweet!

So I get to the Mich Ave. store and there's like a 20 min wait to see someone, whatever, there's A/C so no complaints from me on that one!  Get to the counter and apparently it takes about 15-20mins to do whatever to the phone.  Again, whatever, I went next door and had some Panda Express.... mmmmmmmmm tasty.  Get back to the store hoping the flashing it worked... nope yet again!

Now I get to trek it back over to the first store because Chris (cute guy at the counter) said he had some old flip phones he could loan me.  I get there and there's another wait, again, no worries there's A/C.  So now I have this awesome janktastic Samsung flip phone that doesn't have a camera (guess it makes it REALLY old) and there is a 911 button in it which I have never seen on a phone before.  I'm just hoping that I don't accidentally hit it... that could end poorly.

Well, now I'm on to working on my interview homework that I was planning on starting like 3 hours ago.


... So, there you goes!