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A frustrating Day for Keywi
We had our phone for quite a while and it had quite a few features that were useful on it. It was cordless and I was able to carry it round the house. Not long after I got it I went out to feed my Huskys and made the mistake of putting it down on a bench. Apollo my male husky is a bit of a thief and managed to snatch it and run off with it.
Despite my begging and chasing him round the yard I could hear the slobber covered phone crunching around in his mouth. When I eventually got it back and cleaned all the slobber off, I found that it still worked despite the teeth marks and the chewed arial.
The last time he stole something it was a cigarette lighter and he managed to pierce it with his teeth. He got a rush of gas in his mouth and went for a few hours with stupid a distorted look round his lips.
Well we used that phone like that for about 3 years until the shouting, crackling and constantly have to repeat everything got too much. So we decided we would lash out and spend some of our hard earned fly points and get a newy.
We looked up the internet and sure enough there it was, the Telstra 7200a ( trumpets ) It had 3 hand pieces looked ideal for us. We ordered it to be rushed to us as soon as possible. 8 weeks….yes that’s right 8 weeks later we find a note in the letter box from the postman saying he was sorry he missed us and there was a package to picked up at the post office. This was strange since there where 3 people home all day and no one heard anybody come to the door.
The next day we drive to the post office and pick up our parcel that had postage paid on it to be delivered to our house. I try not to complain to much.
Excitedly we get home so happy that finally we have our new phone. We all had big smiles and where laughing and joking about the old phone as we pulled out all the components out of the box. They go to so much trouble to individually wrap these bits. So there before us lay a whole array of parts. The room went quiet; our jaws dropped a little, the atmosphere changed as we all silently stared at not a new phone but a mess of wires and plastic parts. There glowing and taunting me was the icing on the cake, the half inch thick instruction manual. My fingernails sunk into the desk, omg whats wrong just sending us a damn phone that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work. Its covered in buttons, the charging stations are covered in buttons.
I don’t want to read an instruction manual, I just want to plug it in , pick up the receiver and dial. I don’t want a date, alarm, calendar, call waiting, pins, volume, mutes, keypad locks, give my handset a name, ring tones, call screening, answer delay, memos, time saver, calculator, stop watch. The bloody thing does everything but drive to the shop to buy milk. By the shape of it, it’s probably a sex aid to.
Well Im gunna have to cut this short …..I have a new toy to give to Apollo.
Keywi
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