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Sometime when leaving the carribean coast in Costa Rica, I noticed my phone’s gps was real fucked up. We used Z’s gps, but my phone had the offline maps, so I had to manually extrapolate things. It was frustrating, but I got it done. When we were meeting Mesías, shit was even more weird and I even tried to pay 10 bucks for cell service but !!still! couldn’t connect!! We paid for it on Z’s phone and it was fine. Just. You know. Weird!!!!
So I hard reset. I soft reset. I reset my network. Nothing changes. It’s probably because I’m abroad right? Fine I’ll wait till we get stateside. The entire time though I’m p anxious about it (spoilers: I’m always anxious).
Okay so we land and… it still won’t connect. Sometimes this happens. It just takes a little while to start working again. But I also use Z’s phone to google anything else I could do to try to fix it. No dice. Now I’m starting to worry. But it’s kinda late, we’re all tired, let’s see how it acts in the morning.
Of course it’s still fucked. Doing nothing doesn’t generally fix things (take note, democrats). So we go to the AT&T store. And they’re like “it’s an issue with your phone. Your sim works fine in other phones.”
Z and I get into a fight. He’s mad because I don’t like booking appointments for him because I’m not a secretary. But then he had to come along for the phone because I am not authorized in any capacity on the account. While it was brutal and there were tears, we did a better job listening to each other too. We’re both tired from feeling like we do everything and we both need help. Idk. I booked a sticker appt for him since he kept forgetting. Like I don’t want to be a secretary, but I always want to help my partner. We’re better together.
Okay, so, next stop, the fucking Apple store. In the fucking mall. What a time to be alive. Teens still hang out in the Austin mall. Ain’t that something.
The main guy pulls some strings for me and someone at the Genius Bar helps me p quickly. The phone is fucked. No clue how it happened. Apple care expired, so it would be 500 bucks. I leave to think about it. I kept hoping that any second now my phone luck will turn around. But it does not. It’s so fucking frustrating. And I can’t call anybody or anything!!
Okay NEXT day we’re back at the AT&T store. By the grace of god, I am eligible for an upgrade. Praise science. So, this dad is now on an iPhone 13. I didn’t really neeeeed an upgrade. But it was the most cost effective way of fixing this. It took some fucking around to complete the transfer but it’s done :)
So I guess my luck did turn around. Also we got Z’s phone screen fixed. Basically his phone isn’t able to be traded in with a broke screen but we have insurance. And surprisingly, the insurance seeeeeems easy to deal with. We’ll see.
Also I got a pop socket that has a spinning record on it. It’s a fidget toy that is sooooooo satisfying to play with lol.
It’d been a while since the ghost of Alexander Graham Bell came to haunt me, but i won’t forget dude fucking hates me lmao
So I hard reset. I soft reset. I reset my network. Nothing changes. It’s probably because I’m abroad right? Fine I’ll wait till we get stateside. The entire time though I’m p anxious about it (spoilers: I’m always anxious).
Okay so we land and… it still won’t connect. Sometimes this happens. It just takes a little while to start working again. But I also use Z’s phone to google anything else I could do to try to fix it. No dice. Now I’m starting to worry. But it’s kinda late, we’re all tired, let’s see how it acts in the morning.
Of course it’s still fucked. Doing nothing doesn’t generally fix things (take note, democrats). So we go to the AT&T store. And they’re like “it’s an issue with your phone. Your sim works fine in other phones.”
Z and I get into a fight. He’s mad because I don’t like booking appointments for him because I’m not a secretary. But then he had to come along for the phone because I am not authorized in any capacity on the account. While it was brutal and there were tears, we did a better job listening to each other too. We’re both tired from feeling like we do everything and we both need help. Idk. I booked a sticker appt for him since he kept forgetting. Like I don’t want to be a secretary, but I always want to help my partner. We’re better together.
Okay, so, next stop, the fucking Apple store. In the fucking mall. What a time to be alive. Teens still hang out in the Austin mall. Ain’t that something.
The main guy pulls some strings for me and someone at the Genius Bar helps me p quickly. The phone is fucked. No clue how it happened. Apple care expired, so it would be 500 bucks. I leave to think about it. I kept hoping that any second now my phone luck will turn around. But it does not. It’s so fucking frustrating. And I can’t call anybody or anything!!
Okay NEXT day we’re back at the AT&T store. By the grace of god, I am eligible for an upgrade. Praise science. So, this dad is now on an iPhone 13. I didn’t really neeeeed an upgrade. But it was the most cost effective way of fixing this. It took some fucking around to complete the transfer but it’s done :)
So I guess my luck did turn around. Also we got Z’s phone screen fixed. Basically his phone isn’t able to be traded in with a broke screen but we have insurance. And surprisingly, the insurance seeeeeems easy to deal with. We’ll see.
Also I got a pop socket that has a spinning record on it. It’s a fidget toy that is sooooooo satisfying to play with lol.
It’d been a while since the ghost of Alexander Graham Bell came to haunt me, but i won’t forget dude fucking hates me lmao
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Date: 2022-06-27 02:50 pm (UTC)From:My partner hates talking on the phone so she sometimes tries to delegate her phones calls to me if I'm even 1% related to the issue.
1) Guess what, I also hate talking on the phone!
2) Whenever I've done it for her, it goes like this:
- Interlocutor: Do you want to do A or B?
- Me to F, sitting in the same room: Do you want to do A or B?
- F: I don't know.
- Me: Well, they're asking.
- F: I don't know!
Like how is that my problem?
Or it goes like this:
- Interlocutor: Do you want to do A or B?
- Me: It looks like she wants to do B.
Call concludes.
- F: Why didn't you ask about C? Call them back and ask!
Seriously. Make. The. Calls. Yourself.
> Also I got a pop socket that has a spinning record on it. It’s a fidget toy that is sooooooo satisfying to play with lol.
Amazing! My current case doesn't work with pop-sockets, I miss having one. :(
Also congrats on the iPhone upgrade, the 13 looks sweet as hell even though I hate iOS. :)
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Date: 2022-06-27 03:56 pm (UTC)From:I love how stable iOS is, but I hate that you have to buy an apple product to use it. I dont like a lot of apple's practises but the google+android vs apple has made it increasingly difficult to be on both sides
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Date: 2022-06-27 04:45 pm (UTC)From:Otherwise I work on a Mac and I love it too... As long as my employer pays for the machine. Ugh.
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Date: 2022-06-27 08:21 pm (UTC)From:I want the green 13. It looks so pretty! Which is completely stupid because every time I get a new phone I immediately slap it in the most hardcore Otterbox I can manage because I drop it so often.
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Date: 2022-06-27 09:15 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2022-06-27 03:58 pm (UTC)From:Glad you had an affordable way to get a working phone at least.
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Date: 2022-06-27 04:09 pm (UTC)From:OR! theyre pulling the wool over my eyes. whatever. 5 more bucks a month on my bill lmao
The right to repair overseas is WILD. all the european tourists were using old ass iphones! Take me back!!