blah blah, karaoke picspam
Okay, so once again I have failed to post. In my defense, my sister Sophie is visiting, and also I’ve been very upset about my phone, which got a drink spilled on it at karaoke on Thursday and promptly died. Actually, it died in the most frustrating way possible, where the screen and HALF of the buttons still worked, but not the menu buttons or the call button or half the number pad.
Fortunately, the guy at the Verizon store where I took it in today and sheepishly explained that it had been drowned in alcohol totally ignored the large sign in the tech support area that says that the warranty does not cover damage caused by liquid corrosion and issued me a free replacement.* Then I called customer service and got them to swear that they’d credit my account the cost of redownloading ringtones and games, since they don’t transfer them between handsets.
Of course, the original plan was that I was going to wait until the Verizon website came back up from maintenance tonight, back up my contacts list, and then submerge the lower half of the phone in rubbing alcohol in the hopes that it might dissolve said corrosion. I was pretty sure I’d have to pay full retail price to replace the handset, after all, and we’re talking minimum $50 for a Razr. After 36 hours without a phone, however, I was willing to give them Sophie if that’s what it took to get a replacement.** We’re talking Shining-level crazy without my phone.
But at any rate, all’s well that ends well; the guy at the Verizon store gave me a free replacement and I redownloaded “Heartbreak Beat” (my default ringtone) and Tetris (a necessity when I am waiting for the T). I seem to have snapped off a small piece of my pink zebra strip snapcase (in the initial frenzy to try to save my phone from the drink spill), but I can get a new one of those and in the meantime it still stays on.
Also, karaoke was awesome. There definitely needs to be another one before I leave Boston, although I don’t know how many people here have the karaoke passion that Sophie does. Sadly, they did not have “When You Were Mine,” but Aaron and I sang “Don’t You Want Me” instead:***
Yeah, it was pretty much totally awesome. Box karaoke rocks.
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*Possibly he thought I was cute, or at the very least pathetic. I made an effort to keep my eyes very sad and wide while explaining what happened.
**Sophie did say that she’d cover half if I had to pay to replace it, even though, as she put it, “It wasn’t my fault. It was the whiskey.”
***OF COURSE he sang the girl part.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I’m glad you got a new phone and Sophie didn’t end up spending the rest of her life as property of the Verizon corporation.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
As i’m reading this, Andy walks past and says, “I swear, from 5 feet away Cabell looks like a cartoon.”
And once again you dominate conversation in our house from 3,000 miles away. How do you DO that??
April 16th, 2007 at 12:03 am
I think we’re all glad the phone saga is over.
April 16th, 2007 at 4:27 am
We’re talking Shining-level crazy without my phone
Every so often, I’m amused that I’ve survived ~2 years without a phone, and that 95+% of the time, I really don’t miss one.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
I love your outfit (and your earrings) though I’m a little spooked by your transparent arm. Perhaps it is made of pure spirit. I wish I had been at that karaoke. Why doesn’t anyone ever ask me to karaoke…?
I forgot to charge my phone up three days running this week. I’m guessing you wouldn’t do that?
April 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Dude, I’m switching back to Verizon (I liked Verizon — we have Sprint and it sucks). Rich’s phone’s screen cracked for no apparent reason after having owned it for a relatively short time, and they wouldn’t give him a replacement or repair it. Of course, Rich is a scruffy looking man unlikely to inspire sympathy. Oh well.
Meanwhile, Madison karaoke misses you.