We did it!!! Yes, we finally became the 7th to the last people on earth over the age of six months to acquire iPhones or their equivalent. That’s partly because we opted to clear out deleted stuff from our previous Samsung phone — all 7.99 Gigabytes of the 8.0 Gigabyte phone that refused to depart when we said “depart,” “OK, please depart.” “PRETTY PLEASE!”
The writers of software inserted in every modern electronic device have one personality defect, er, trait — they delight in human suffering. It’s revenge for being harassed for acting nerd-like during their middle school years.
Thus, unable to take even a single photo with the Samsung, thereby reducing it to no more than a metallic object useful for alerting TSA agents that we needed full body pat downs because we forgot it was in our pocket and little else, we followed Miss Google’s advice and pressed reset to factory settings.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes”
Surely that would truly purge everything we had purged including photos I can’t replace and viola, we’d have a healthy, practically new cell phone — the one ATT gave me free for forking over $100 to sign up for our original plan back when — I forget.
Purge completed we turned the phone on and began setting it up again, a process as smooth as talcum powder until….
“Enter the google password you used to set up your phone.”
What Google password? There was no Google password. I never could get on the internet to access Google with that contraption — ever!!! And I don’t want to get on Google anyway. I just want a phone. A TELEPHONE!
However, those programers provided no options and over the eons I had Google passwords, maybe 38 of them, all deleted.
Enter the world of three guesses and you’re out! Reset your password and wait 24 hours until you get to try again.
And again but each time just one try before having to enter another new password on that tiny screen where my finger spanned three letters.
And again.
And again.
Did I mention again, each time another 24 hour wait?
Are there any humanoids out there?
Another 38 passwords later that cold piece of Samsung metal with all it’s electronic components and rare earth components and unlimited minutes of calling and texts and 3 G of internet usage per month that I never could use because of — see discussion above — that I recently paid $200 plus tax to use until next April, sits glaring at me with its one eye, daring me to try again. I narrow my eyes and glare back.
So now I am the owner of a brand new Apple iPhone which I wii never ever ever press reset to factory settings — if I can only figure out how to use it. Hint — so far when I try to take a photo, half the time I take a short movie, the other half — nothing. But, if I keep at it, I’ll soon be able to splice the movies together to create a feature length film. You can look for it coming out at a drive-in theater near you next winter.
OK, this needs a photo. How about a couple of Karen's from this week?
Looking across Wrangell Narrows from Petersburg
yup, that's a pretty classic phone-replacement story! technology definitely has its pros...and the occasional con. but most of all i LOVE the deer in the last photo! how special! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Casey. Yes, that deer moment was special for Karen.
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