Jan 26 2009
Blackberry Pearl
On July 23rd, I arrived at KC International Airport around 2:00 p.m. I obtained my luggage-I had 1 new large suitcase with wheels, and another smaller suitcase with wheels, that was supposed to be carry on size, but I doubt that it is. The stewaress had to literally shove it into the compartment. I had the seat closest to the captain, in first class. I traded with someone’s child who had was sitting in that seat, but his parents were in the middles of the plane, where I was sitting. I had lot’s of leg room. The first class seats are very nice.
I had called my family every single night, causing my bank account to wither away, due to Cricket Wireless not being available in NYC, and they start to charge 2.00-3.00 a minute, after you use your roaming money up, which is very quick. I kept adding more time. Funny, the hotel was right next to a T-mobile. I already knew what I’d do as soon as I got home, and unpacked.
I had Cricket for about 2 years, and their products were okay, if you bought a higher end phone. If you bought their cheap, or even their free phone, they were awful, not honoring their warrenties, and selling products, like, chargers, that break after used a few times. Then, even with a reciept, they found reason not to refund you. Once I got so mad in the little cricket store by my house, I was asked to never come back again, and I held them to that. (I told a customer that they did not honor receipts when you return something that breaks 4 days after buyuing it.). Their phone plans are decent, if you only use it locally. Their nationwide plan sucks to high heaven, and their internet is sub-standard. I guess that really wants to make you check them out, huh? Their employees are very kind, until there’s a problem, then they transform into this rude elemental. My trip to NYC and my Cricket plan were going to sperate ways.
This is when I decided to get a Blackberry Pearl, the white one, from T-mobile. I wanted it loaded. I wanted a phone plan that had true, unlimited everything. One in which I could make a phone call at my dad’s at the Lake of the Ozarks, or from NYC, or Mall of America in Minneapolis. The phone style was important to me, it had to be an act of class. Not like what others have.
After I unpacked, and got over jet-lag (Jet lag is real, it is a good word for the symptom.) Jet Lag means: a physiological condition which is a consequence of alterations to circadian rhythms. I took that straight from Wikipedia. I continued to check out plans from T-mobile. I had picked up a brochure in New York. I had read up on plans in the evenings, after I played World of warcraft on my laptop. World of warcraft is a big part of my life, and my laptop is a gaming laptop. I play it every night. I read about cell phones, read reviews, ads, stats. I wanted a Blackberry Pearl so bad.
On July 25th, first thing that morning, I went to the T-Mobile store in Kansas City, and purchased a Blackberry Pearl, with the Fave Fives plan. It is around 110.00 monthly. The Cricket plan, fully loaded, was around 120.00 monthly. I knew exactly who would be in my Fave Five: my son, my home, my friend Julie, my dad’s girlfriend, Pat, and my dad. I got home at 10:15 a.m., and was playing with my Blackberry, and unpacking, straightening things up, when my home phone rang.
It was my dad’s neighbor down at the Lake of the Ozarks. He was very sick, and his neighbor took him to the hospital at Lakeside Regional Hospital in Osage beach. He had almost passed out. He had been sick for 3 days. I had to drive down to the Lake. Lake of the Ozarks is 3 hours away, and I drove like a robot. I pulled over several times to talk to the nurse at the hospital. When the nurse calls personally from a hospital, it is very serious.
