Giving up the ghost

[lumy12]

The day has come... my beloved QWERTY keyboard/flips-two-ways-phone has become really hard to use, and not just for an hour or so like it used to. After two straight frustrating days, I decided to either fix it or ditch it -- and no one wants to touch the thing. The Verizon guy sent me to a "you break/we fix" store and THEY wouldn't even touch it. And he said it was "like spy equipment or something" -- lol. Two people in the store did look at it wistfully, saying it was such a great phone...

...Back in the day, of course. It still IS! Or was, until very recently. Sooooooooo I finally got a (very basic) smartphone -- merry Christmas to me! -- and the guy said "welcome to 2018, almost '19." I said "more like 2010, you mean?" I've had that thing since 2009! I can't actually DROP this new one and still expect it to work *gasp!* My friend's boyfriend says he can retrieve everything off of it, too, which would be more than the Verizon guys can do. We'll see. Next up... a car from this millennium? Noooooooooo

Merry Christmas to everyone :D ♥ ♥ ♥

ETA:
Here, have an 80stastic Christmas video! Poor George. Every year the same thing happens to him, and he keeps saying this time will be different... hope springs eternal!

Comments

[wicked-jester.livejournal.com]

Definitely get a protective case for the smartphone if it seems like it'd break easily. I didn't need one for my old Nokia (the floor was in more danger of cracking than the phone when dropped) but I'm not taking any chances with my Samsung Galaxy, lol.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Haha, your poor floor! I loved that I could drop that phone on the floor of Target and have pieces shoot out everywhere, and I'd just put it back together again like nothing had happened. I haven't even dropped it in a while but I suppose the wires may have gotten loose somehow from that over the years. I did pick out a sturdy case. My eye was first drawn to the glittery pink water case, but the guy pointed out it was more pretty than sturdy... at least the one I got is green, my fave color :)

Oh dang I forgot I don't have any Kylo icons over here... I do have a Rey though...

[frostbit-sky.livejournal.com]

Wow! A Merry Christmas indeed.

How do you like your new phone? Easy to use?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's not too bad... I turned off the "swipe to call" feature and still managed to accidentally call someone, but at least it let me cancel it quickly enough that time, lol. I like that I don't have to ask people NOT to use emojis anymore! The old phone would just garble the whole message if there was an emoji anywhere in there.

[frostbit-sky.livejournal.com]

Yay for emojis!

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas! Hope you enjoy the new model, and manage to get your old stuff back. *hugs* x

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Merry Christmas! So far so good. My little 8-year-old friend is glad she can now send me emojis from Mommy's phone :) I THINK I already emailed all the pics I care about to myself off the old phone, but some of the locked texts would be nice to retrieve.

[queen-meep.livejournal.com]

Hello, friend! I've re-surfaced again. LOL

I hope you're doing well! :)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Meeep! As you can see I don't post much but the journal is not completely in the grave yet (I try to remember to check the f-list at least every week or two) so if you do start updating more I should see the entries :)