I’ve had uncanny bad luck with cellphones for the past 3-4 months. I had a new phone, a nice Nokia with a camera and an MP3 player. Cracked the screen. Went back to my Razr from 2006. Cracked the screen on that.
Now, I’m still into my contract for at least a year, so replacing the phone seemed like it was going to be a pain in the wallet. IE no cheap upgrade on the horizon.
My plan was simple. Go to the T-Mobile store, explain my situation, and ask for the absolute cheapest phone in the store. if not the freest phone in the store.
I had no expectations that this was going to result in anything but me spending 75 bucks on some shitty phone that I wasn’t going to like.
And then something magical happened. The sales rep told me something that wasn’t in his best interest. He told me to go buy a prepaid/disposable phone . A ‘burner’ in The Wire parlance.
Winning idea. I went to target and picked up a Nokia 1661. $18.
Prepaid cellphones take regular SIM cards. So if you are ever in a similar pinch, just grab a disposable cellphone and drop your old SIM in.
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I’d like to remark, if you will pardon the tangent, that I have a extremely vivid image in my mind of the antique radio that at one time resided in your “ancestral” home. I always loved that radio. The folding stools were a very close second.
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