My husband and I both were in a state of absolute frustration when we looked at our $200 Verizon wireless bill, and then looked down at the crappy out dated phones in our hands. He has been carrying a red crazor with no working screen, and I could only talk on speaker phone with my LG smartphone. ( Courtesy of a late night with co workers where someone spilled jagermeister on the ear piece....okay that may have been me.)
I laughed as my husband would use his phone to call people using the memory game.
" If I press this button it goes to my contacts...Arrow down once and I am in the search bar, then I can type the persons name and then hit send, and 90 % of the time I have dialed the right number."
The look on his face was one of pride, then quickly turned to a smirk of realization that this is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous! How do we pay $200 a month and have these things as our contact to the world!
Hubby says that he saw an add on TV for the motorola droid as a buy one get one free. I was very excited because when I had my palm phone, he called it stupid on a regular basis because he didn't know how to work it. Finally! He was ready to move on with technology.
"You like the droid phones?!"
"Yeah! They're really cool. My brother had one."
"Well okay! Lets see what we can do."
After several attempts on the phone and placing an order on the internet I finagled the buy one get one for $50. They would be there the next day.
Phones arrive and I immediately get to work on setting mine up. By the time hubby comes home I have my email, facebook, and entire contact list programmed. Watching him unbox his phone with excitement quickly turned to disgust and hatred..I kept laughing as he would yell that he hated the phone and that it is absolutely assanign that they would make buttons that small! And that the phone technology world is prejudice to left handed people. The more and more he went on the funnier it became to me and more mad he got.
We had a day trip planned to see Paul McCartney play in Nashville. He had arranged for us to borrow a car from his Dad and get me off work. It was all suppose to be a big surprise. We were all set to go, got sandwichs in the car, sodas, flasks for the show, and money in our pockets. I'm standing in the doorway with a hand full of stuff and ready to go when he says to wait a minute he needs to print out the map.
Determined to sell him on our new phones I tell him that he doesn't need to print out a map that the phones have internet, google maps and GPS. He agrees and we are off to Nashville!
Tunes are going, traffic is flowing. We figured if we made good enough time we would be able to go to the Country Music Hall of Fame before the show. We get about and hour and fifteen minutes outside of St. Louis and he turns to me and says...
"Did you get the tickets?"
Silence, followed by panic, and soon loud laughter! Neither of us had grabbed the tickets from the refrigerator. So several miles later when allowed to exit the highway, we turned around and headed back to St. Louis.
We arrive home and get the tickets, grab some CD's, over feed the cats, and return to the road. The drive was great! We had good talks and were buzzing with excitement when we arrive outside the city. Hubby asks me,
"Okay, can you please get directions on the phone?"
I begin to try and use the maps function on the browser which just kept showing me where we were. I then just used the internet to get directions from the arenas web site, which proved to be useless when we missed the turn onto the correct highway. He was very irritated at me at this point. He just kept saying got to mapquest! But the phone wasn't allowing me to go to the task bar. Finally, we pull over and he manages to out navigate me and gets mapquest directions on his phone. Ive never been prouder.
We arrive at the arena, find a place to park. Changed our clothes and walked around the shops on broadway to avoid the giant line that had formed outside the venue. By the time the doors were scheduled to open, there were tornado sirens going off and the sky was green and wet. Long security checks were deduced to nothing more than making sure you had your ticket. Ive never seen so many people pushed through doors in such a small amount of time.
The concert was absolutely amazing! Words cannot express the feeling! And thanks to the new phones, we can relive some of the moments through video. Long live technology!
