05 January 2014
1354 hrs
Hullo, Patient Reader
Looks like
someone, well, not just anyone, responded to my Crisis? What Crisis?
Post on CFF. The Someone in Question
is the very same person with whom I share the phone story. She is neither the protagonist nor the
antagonist, as I am neither, also. The
story simply is what it is.
I want it
to be clearly understood that I have no ill will toward her. In fact, she is a very nice person, indeed,
and honestly, was very kind to me most of the time. I have a used coffee pot, a bean grinder, and
a broom/dustpan combo, among other things, that she selflessly gave to me. Here is her comment, posted unabridged:
Just have to say when someone graciously hands you a free
$600 phone which you or "she" then cannot manage to afford
"service" for, then sale the damn thing and go buy a comparible phone
AND set up service for 3 months. Gee Wally World sales phones and service for
the amazing price of 9.99/mo. Maybe having phone "service" is not as
important as the ego wanting to have the high dollar phone without service.
Good luck with that one dude. on Crisis? What Crisis?
Anonymous
I have
to agree she has brought up a few excellent points. I have indeed tried to sell the phone. Problem is, it is tied to the Network Carrier
we got it through, and cannot be flashed over.
Secondly, that means I have to find someone who is already on that plan,
and sell it more cheaply than they could get it (free) themselves through that
network carrier. It has been very
difficult so far to get a stranger to pay me, another stranger, a few hundred
dollars for a phone with unknown history (how could they know? I am a stranger), for a phone that will never
work unless they go through the one and only carrier that can activate it. Those interested who already use the carrier
could indeed have fun with it, but they can get one for free, you see, through
one of that carrier’s plans.
$9.99 at WallyWorld is indeed dirt cheap . . . almost, unless you have no cash until your
FA/ Student Loans moneys come in. Then
$9.99 might as well be $99 mil. I used
what would have been my other phone’s bill allotments for other things I
needed, thinking that I would be starting to pay her in January, as was originally
agreed. And EGO? No, not ego.
I can’t seem to sell it, for one, and for another, well, it has my
life-in-a-nutshell on it. My contacts;
websites; books; songs, etc. Those of
you with smartphones know what I mean.
All of my doc appointments and class schedules and everything . . . Right?
I know how
she feels and she knows how I feel. It’s
not a generosity thing, or an ego thing . . . it’s simply a “Do-What You-Say-You’re-Gonna-Do,”
thing. You know? Especially after one of the party repeatedly
asked if this is really what she wanted to do, if she can afford it, the
No-Matter-What-Happens clause, etc . . .
Now look,
Patient Reader- this is not going to become an online debate between her and
me. Her comment came to me as an actual
comment on the blog, rather than a personal email, so I believe she intended for me to publish it here. I simply made an
agreement with y'all that I will publish all appropriate (meaning that they don’t violate TOS with Blogger
or blogspot.com) comments that pertain to CFF, regardless of what sort of light it puts me in.
And I told y’all that I would keep you up to date on the story.
So there you have it.
I am getting
some good responses to
my songs. I have a few
more friends who have
yet to hear them, but I
will get it to them soon. After that, they'll either
go up here or on another site to which I
contribute.
some good responses to
my songs. I have a few
more friends who have
yet to hear them, but I
will get it to them soon. After that, they'll either
go up here or on another site to which I
contribute.
Looks like blogger is having a problem saving this. Does anyone else ever get the same error here?
So I am going to post, now. See you soon, Patient Reader, with some interesting stuff I hope, next time.
Sayonara,
The Cunning Fennec Fox
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