and I don't mean my cheeks.
My phone.
I flushed my phone down the toilet. It fell in out of my pocket after I had already flushed.
What did I do? I reached in and got it out. I think it was going to actually go all the way down, it was already beyond vision when I rescued it.
I dried it out. I was able to turn it on, but then it turned itself off and hasn't turned on again.
I think a phone funeral is in order.
Obituary for my phone:
Dear Orange Phone,
I hated you. I couldn't tell what I was getting when I bought you because everything was written in arabic and the person behind the counter at the Lulu could not really tell me anything about you. I bought you anyway, because you were in the middle price range of what I thought was an exorbitant amount to pay for any phone. In america they give us phones for free with our phone plans...you weren't free and your phone plan costs WAY more than any of my other phones as well. Is it because you are an Oman phone? You have been lost many times. Perhaps you ran away, but you always came back. I thank you for that. You were loyal in that way. You were also a really groovy color that matched my bunk underwater camera...brilliant orange. You had quirky attributes that some would admire, such as a radio and camera. I regret never taking advantage of those features...it is just that I can't bring myself to listen to the radio stations here in Oman very frequently and your camera quality was so poor it rendered that feature pretty much pointless. I hope you can forgive my neglect. As you move on to the grand motherboard I hope that you will know that even though I hated you, I hate shopping for a new phone even more and would gladly have you back to keep me from having to do it. Always remember that even though I lost you, dropped you, drowned you, sat on you, let you get abused by child hands and ultimately was the cause of your demise...you were my favorite hated phone. It is fitting that your final resting place should be where you were born. Goodbye terrible phone.
August 2008-April 2009 (although when I was trying to rescue you, I found on the inside a stamp - dated 02/06/2007 - so I suppose you were much older than I knew...you lived a full life!)
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5 comments:
*clears throat*
Sing a hymn for the dead
Because in death as in life
we are one in the same
Sing a hymn for the world
To avert eugenic errors, go!
Wishing for it to be the phone's last tone.
May it biodegrade in peace.
-TFK
May your phone rest in peace
Although I think as far as Oman is concerned, I suppose I'm the guy who has used the oldest and least number of phones, bought a Siemens C35 in 1999 for 69 OMR used it till February 2007 (had a total of 580 hours of talk time on it), and I'm not kidding about it, I gave it to an office assistant at my university and he still uses it.
I bought an E50 in February 2007 and have been using it till now with 160 hours of talk time, it still gives me 4-5 days of standby.
At least you can get a phone you might like now :)
Samsung make pretty good phones.
I love my Sony Ericsson to bits, but I think you're newly deceased phone was too?
While Oman's TRA (telecom regulatory authority) does not allow phone companies to provide free or subsidized phones, the cost per minute of calls on cell phone here in Oman, and this entire region for that matter, is much lower than the US or Europe. What's expensive here is international calls and data connections.
In the US and Europe, the cellular company will give you a mobile phone for free up front against a 2 or 3 year commitment. The monthly fee is based on the phone that you choose. In the end you end up paying more for the phone than what we pay here when we buy unsubsidized phones. Also, the range, quality and features on the phones available here is much bigger. We have a much richer variety because of this. Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone company has a negligible presence in the US because they weren't very good at negotiating with cell companies there. That's why in the US Motorola, a company that hasn't been able to successfully sell its phones anywhere, was no. 1.
In the US you might find a phone you really like but then find out that your cell company doesn't provide that phone. Here you can buy any phone you like and use it with any company.
Fark and Sab - thank you for the condolences.
Muscati - my plan in the us cost $30 a month unlimited calls anywhere in the US. My cell phone was a Nokia that I just had to pay $20 for and it opened two ways. One way it was just a regular phone, but the other way it because this typing board. It was small, sleek and did everything I needed. And at least in the part of texas that I lived in...and the part of New York that I lived, NOKIA was the major cell phone company. You could find a few other kinds like motorola, but people tended not to use those simply because their reputation wasn't as good as the nokia. In addition, I just paid 44 rial for a phone that isn't anywhere near as cool as my old phone AND I pay about 60-70 rial a month for my phone - NO international calls. This also happens to be the best deal that we could find through Omantel. I was not writing out of ignorance, I promise...experience for sure. Cell service and cell phones are cheaper in the US...not as reliable, but less expensive. And I have no problem signing a two-three year contract when I get a free phone upgrade every year as I did with my company in the US.
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