The future's orange

374 words written by dylan
Posted July 29, 2006 @ 12:47 AM
1 comments

I lost my cell phone.

By "lost" I mean "severely misplaced." I can't find it. I've tried calling it in every place I could have dropped it, but I can't rouse it (or hear the ringtone).

Now, I've had a cell phone for about six years, though I haven't exactly been a power user. I've never gone over my monthly minutes. I've never gone over half my monthly quota. If could tolerate Cingular, I'd have years worth of rollover minutes. I really haven't needed a cell phone.

Until this week. And I proceed to lose it.

My phone has gotten progressively smaller over the years. My first phone was a Qualcomm (which doesn't even make cell phones anymore) and was the size of two sticks of butter. Phone #2 was an Ericsson and about the size of a candy bar. Phone #3 (worst phone ever) was a Motorola V600 -- a supergiant pack og gum. And the most recent phone was a Motorola PEBL, which probably could be used as a suppository. It's tiiiiiny.

And that was my downfall -- it's so small I apparently lost it amongst all my stuff.

So, I ordered (sigh) a new phone, and in order to get the price deals agreed to extend our T-Mobile agreement another two years, which is fine since they're the least jerky cell phone company I've dealt with. But when it came time to order a phone... what to get? Cheap and flimsy? Blackberry? Oh-I'm-so-metrosexual RAZR?

No. I liked my PEBL. It made me feel stylish, yet hetero. I told the customer service lady, gimme another PEBL.

What color? she asked.

Color? They're black.

No, she said. They come in five colors now. Black, green, pink, turquoise, and orange.

Orange. You can get it in road crew orange. I thought about it -- easy to spot, distinctive, and ugly enough that it will remind me to STOP LOSING IT. So, I said I wanted an orange phone. (And to be clear, orange as in "orange phone from T-Mobile," not "Orange phone.")

So, in a few days, I'll have a ridiculously colored phone that I can spot from a mile away. Hopefully, I won't lose it again. These phones aren't cheap.

Comments

  1. I really really do hate making the following comments; however, I cannot help myself.

    1. Could your phone be up your butt? (You inspired the idea with your pithy comparison).

    2. The Pebl sounds too familiar to The Pebble, a swank, classy-looking vibrator.

    Hmmmmmm.

    Sorry again. *Hangs head in shame*

    Posted by: ellie | August 3, 2006 12:56 PM