How to get a new cell phone on 43 Things

How to get a new cell phone by wren

It took me

7 days

It made me

befuddled

"I'm sure I made it much more complicated than it needed to be..."

How I did it: First step was to lose my old cell phone. Turns out I have mad cell phone losing skills, so that was no problem.

Next step...I went to T-Mobile's web site & picked out a useful, less-overpriced model, ordered it, and had it shipped to me.

Then I discovered that I needed to take the tiny magic card from the old phone & put it into the new phone in order to make the new phone be a phone. Oops. Hadn't thought of that.

Next step was a trip to the TMobile store. The fellow in the store was very pleasant and sold me a new magical microchip card.

Then I found out that the phone service is in Mr. Wren's name, so I could not complete the secret transaction needed to activate the microchip's magic. So the next step was to wait for Mr. Wren to come home from work, sleep, and wake up.

Next day, Mr. Wren phoned the TMobile people and vouched that I could ask for things on my phone. I'm sure I could have saved time by having any male pretend to be Mr. Wren or faking a man voice myself, but I'm only devious enough to think about that sort of trickiness.

One more thing....it turns out you need to know the code number that is written in teensy numbers on the tiny magical microchip so that the phone people can make everything happen. Of course, the microchip was already in the phone, so the very nice phone person had to phone me back on my land line while I took my new cell phone apart, forced the magical microchip out, and retrieved the number.

And finally, it was done. The old phone was deactivated, and the new phone was turned into a working phone. All of the T-Mobile people were exceptionally pleasant, perkily so, really, while I bumbled about.

Lessons & tips: Don't lose your cell phone!

If you do lose your cell phone, you might as well find the humor in it.

Resources: Nice T-Mobile employees, nice husband!

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Sep 21, 2008, 05:51PM PDT | 16 comments | 72 cheers

Comments:

phensy South bound again.

lmao

ah the simple things always turn out to be the things that trip us up most often.

Pretty darned funny from afar though,lol.

Sep 22, 2008, 05:30AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 4 cheers

wren is TGFS.

: )

Sep 22, 2008, 06:00AM PDT | Respond to this 7 cheers

phensy South bound again.

Oh

and that was laughing with you not at you, just incase that came across as me being a git!

Sep 22, 2008, 06:17AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

wren is TGFS.

Absolutely!

I think the whole thing is pretty funny, too!

Sep 22, 2008, 06:19AM PDT | Respond to this 3 cheers

phensy South bound again.

Good

good ;)

Sep 22, 2008, 06:21AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

SweetMK Shines.

Wren

this made me laugh :)

_{hope you were laughing too!}

Oct 09, 2008, 08:08PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 2 cheers

wren is TGFS.

Oh yes,

I absolutely was laughing.
:D

Oct 10, 2008, 08:14AM PDT | Respond to this 2 cheers

mahinui ever more at home

it’s a conspiracy

you know it is

Oct 09, 2008, 10:22PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

wren is TGFS.

As long as I can blame it on George Bush,

I’m content.

Oct 10, 2008, 08:14AM PDT | Respond to this 4 cheers

bookish

yet another thing wren and i have in common

... mad cellphone losing skills

Nov 13, 2008, 03:00PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

Rebecca is Nano-ing.

I just got a new phone two days ago

And I am still recovering from the trauma. LOL

Nov 21, 2008, 02:44PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

Flutterbyflyby3 Let's go fly a kite, Up to the highest height!

How hard

Would it be to either include a slip of paper with those all important TINY numbers on it with the chip or a magnifying glass? (I have mad cell phone destruction skillz – insurance is a necessity!)

Dec 28, 2008, 08:41AM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer