I know I just posted last evening, but since I’m home convalescing (I came back from vacation with a bad cold), I’m getting lots of little things done that don’t require much effort and that keep me from spreading the nasty bug. One of those little jobs was calling AT&T to ditch our land line. We found out we could still have their Internet (DSL Direct) without having to pay for a land line phone! How cool is that?!
If you normally call us at our home and need our Verizon cell phone numbers, you can contact me through the contact tab at the top of the page. I’ve let BJU and our church know our new numbers also.
Here’s a little humor about cell phones…
There are several men in the locker room of a private club after exercising. Suddenly a cell phone lying on one of the benches begins to ring. A man picks it up and the following conversation ensues:
“Hello?”
“Honey, It’s me. Are you at the club?”
“Yes.”
“Great! I am at the mall 2 blocks from where you are. I saw a beautiful mink coat… It is absolutely gorgeous! Can I buy it?”
“What’s the price?”
“Only $1,500.”
“Well, OK, go ahead and get, if you like it that much…”
“Ahhh and I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the 2001 models. I saw one I really liked. I spoke with the salesman and he gave me a really good price … and since we need to exchange the BMW that we bought last year…”
“What price did he quote you?”
“Only $60,000…”
“OK, but for that price I want it with all the options.”
“Great! Before we hang up, something else…”
“What?”
“It might look like a lot, but I was reconciling your bank account and…I stopped by the real estate agent this morning and I saw the house we had looked at last year. It’s on sale!! Remember? The one with a pool, English Garden, acre of park area, beachfront property…”
“How much are they asking?”
“Only $450,000… a magnificent price, and I see that we have that much in the bank to cover….”
“Well, than go ahead and buy it, but just bid $420,000. OK?”
“OK, sweetie… Thanks! I’ll see you later!! I love you!!!”
“Bye… I do too.”
The man hangs up, closes the phone’s flap and raises his hand while holding the phone and asks to all those present, “Does anyone know who this phone belongs to?”
quotation…
“I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.” - Ronald Reagan
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Rob
For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.
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on Jul 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Sorry that you are not feeling so hot—is that why we call what you have a “cold”? Winter colds are no fun, but summer colds are even worse.
As to severing the landline, we have hung on to ours. For one thing, all the unwanted solicitations and telemarketing calls can go unanswered on the landline since we have Caller ID. Because we are with Qwest up here in Minnesota, and since Verizon is supposed to have some sort of technical linkup with Qwest in the near future, we might be able to get a special deal to link up our cell numbers with our landline. We have five lines on our Verizon Family Plan (Nancy, me, and three of our kids). Cynthia and her sister Tricia are also on Verizon as well. We really like the arrangement as it stands.
Hope you are on the road to recovery. Becka will probably appreciate your being well about as much as you will.
on Jul 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
That thing about cell phones is hilarious but at the same time, it’s awful. I mean, who would in their right mind do something that mean to someone with/without malice and aforethought. I think whoever did that to the man who owned the cell phone, probably would like totally never hear the end of it. And if the man’s wife really did go buy all those things, she would also never hear the end of it, so, I think that is overall a very dangerous thing to do with anybody, even your best friends.
on Jul 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
David, thanks for your well wishes. I’m back at work today and can check the comments while I’m waiting for a program to install on a computer. We went back and forth about whether to have our home phone number ported over to one of our cell phones - something Verizon said they could take care of if we wanted it - but we decided that we’d like to no longer receive all the “junk calls” that would eat up our daytime minutes. There are so many options out there these days that it’s hard to know which to choose. Our current choice is by far the cheapest with our current needs and situation.
Katie, it would indeed be a mean thing to do if it weren’t a joke. If someone really had done that, I wouldn’t be glorifying it on my blog.