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Cell Phones

I have a Motorola Q phone now. It does not have Pocket Word; so, that's a drawback. The instruction book is 652 pages long; so, that's a drawback.

And I have a Mini Mac desktop computer ... you've probably seen them. It's a white and silver little box 6 1/2-by-6 1/2-by-2 inches. If anything goes wrong with it, it is very easy to throw it at the person who tells you to calm down. The phone number to call for help with my Apple Mini Mac is 1-800-APL-CARE.

So, instead of throwing the CPU, I try to call Apple on my Motorola Q. And here's another drawback of the Motorola Q -- there are no letters on the numbers. That's not exactly true ... maybe, I should say that there aren't any numbers on the letters. Whatever. You can't push the letters APL-CARE and get Apple. And the numbers don't have ABC, DEF, GHI, JKL, MNO, etc., on them like on the old rotary phones that I learned phone back in the day, back in the day when "O" meant OPERATOR, not "0," the number, back in the day when the letters had some meaning ... you dialed exchanges, such as MOntrose 2-4312, which then became 662-4312 at some point in the remote past, which is the time when remote controls became popular.

And those office telephone directory programs that ask me to type in the first few letters of the employee's last name ... that won't work on my Motorola Q. Who knows what person will answer the phone when I start guessing.

I am not going to memorize the anachronistic ABC's of the telephone company. This is, after all, the 21st Century. For crying out loud, we have flying cars ... and time travel ... and invisibility pills, and all sorts of modern marvels. I shouldn't have to know the ABC's.

Posted by Bill at August 9, 2006 04:42 PM