If you call me right now – and you should! Call me right now! – then I’d hear, ‘Lea-KKSSHHHHH-tha-KKSSHHHHH-on-KKSSHHHHH-righ-KKSSHHHHH.’ Because for some reason, which no one can ascertain, on incoming calls, there is hella amounts of static which makes it impossible for me to hear all the nice things you are saying about my hair. You, on the other hand, would hear only my melodious voice asking and then yelling, ‘Huh? What was that? WHAT?? I’ll call you right back. Hang on.’ And let me tell you, that does NOT get old. This does not apply to outgoing calls where the static is down by 2/3rds and I can, in fact, hear you compliment my hiney in these jeans with just a few KKSSHHHHHs mixed in.
I was the first one to try and fix my phone. I looked at it. Studied it. Shook it a little from side to side. Turned it off and on. Looked at it really hard AGAIN and remarkably, nothing changed. Then Joe took a stab at it. He actually did things that seemed like they should work and sat on hold and then talked with customer service for 30 minutes while they walked him through all the things they could think of to do. Sadly, noting worked. During that process they had him reset the phone to factory settings which replaced all my rings and alarms and stuff, most of which I didn’t even realize I had customized, so now every time my phone rings I jump or don’t even realize it’s mine. Also? the number that is coded into the phone for auto-dialing my voice mail, yes, that would be my own cell phone number, is wrong. I called someone named Trish in San Diego, twice in 30 seconds, before I realized what was happening. I thought I had just missdialed, uh, hitting the number 1. Twice in a row. GOOD TIMES! (Sorry, Trish.)
When I took the phone into the local Sprint office, they couldn’t help me. They just SELL the phones there, silly. So they gave me directions to the Fix It Store. My guess – Sprint and Nextel combined to create phones that don’t work and office buildings far, far away from me.
I took it out to the Cell Phone Fixin’ store which is neither convenient or inviting and is placed in one of the worst looking abandoned areas I’ve seen since my small stint in Florida a million years ago. I’m not sure why I have to drive 30 miles out of my way to get my phone fixed, the one that I pay extra each month to insure for just this event. I have learned a few things since dropping my old phone in the toilet. But I feel inconvenienced and ornery. And the directions to the building were WRONG. So, that was fun calling and asking why they weren’t where they were supposed to be. The girl on the phone kind of giggled and said, ‘Ya, we need to fix that.’ Well, you don’t say.
In any case, they don’t sell or promote my phone anymore (I WONDER WHY RATHER LOUDLY IN MY HEAD) and they don’t make a newer model but they do have a very large stock pile somewhere sequestered in the US of A with which the are willing to keep replacing my phone for as long as needed. No matter how many times this happens. And they don’t know why it’s making the noises and why it’s worse when someone calls me, but they sure will replace my phone for ever and ever, amen. Only I have to go back out in a few days to get it since they can’t send it to me.
Also, since I know you want to know, there have been zero boxes packed. Yes, that’s right. Zero. And what is worse is that the panic hasn’t set in yet to make me move in a frenetic, buzzing manner and get things started. In my head? The entire house has been packed and moved about 6 times. In real life? Oh, right. The count was at ZERO BOXES.
Does anyone know how to move lovely, full and happy houseplants from one home to another without harming their long trailing vines?
Leah: When I moved my plants I devised a ghetto method for the vines. I put one of those tomato(e?) growing cages into the pots and then stacked/circled the vines inside that. For my hanging plants, I put a bag around the vines, two sticks into the pot and put the handles of the bag on the sticks. Like a feed-bag for the plant, I guess. Then I just hung the plants on a wardrobe rack I was also moving and drove slowly.
Don’t know if that helps! But I thought I’d chime in. 🙂
Once upon a time when I was actually capable of keeping houseplants alive, I managed to move them without killing them. I put them in a box with tall sides, wrapped towels around their bases to keep them from tipping, and then I wrapped all the viney parts clockwise loosely around them to avoid tangling. It worked rather well.
Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something. The noise of static KKSSHHHHH, KKSSHHHHH is similar phonetically to the sound of packing tape as it’s being used to close boxes ;). (When I started to read your post, I thought that was what you were sounding out).
I hate moving. Hope it goes great!
I moved from Missouri to Texas then up to Wisconsin with my plants secured in rubbermaid-type boxes with peanuts around them. They traveled in a ryder truck amongst other treasures. It worked great.
Not sure how far you’re moving, thought it was local, but maybe I missed something. I moved about a month ago and successfully moved, orchids, cactus, ivy, wax plants, etc in fruit boxes (lids off) with just a little paper stuffed between pots. I made one trip with nothing but my treasured plants filling the back of the Rav4 in one layer.
Sorry ’bout your phone. I always kept insurance on mine too until my son worked for Sprint and he told me that it’s not so good. They can tell if it’s water damaged so you have to say you lost it if you havethat coverage instead of taking the phone in. Also, every two years you get $150 (every year $75) credit towards a new phone so we just skip the insurance and keep getting new phones. I currently have the Katana and love it, I have dropped it many times and you can’t tell. 🙂 Camera isn’t that great though if you like one in a phone. My son has the LG that has a 3.somethingorother megapixel camera and lets you listen to mp3s – he loves it.
Oops sorry, I only put one viney plant to a box.
oooo great ideas, you guys. thanks. i just want them all to make it safe and sound. lisa – we are moving local. just, like, 12 miles down the road. but i’ve had plants die from moving them from one side of the house to the other so i just don’t want to hurt them. they are like my other 18 babies. that only need water and singing to survive. and dancing. sometimes dancing.
just a note: if you have a ficus, it probably will drop some leaves when you move it over to the new house, no matter how well you pack it. some plants just kind of freak out a bit when in new surroundings and drop some leaves, but they will come back.
Have you tried slamming the phone against the wall?
I’m only kind of kidding. I used to have a camera that I had to hit against the wall to get it to work.
sorry to hear for your trouble .. i work for sprint.. if u can provide me more detail i might help you