Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Yesterday I upgraded my cell phone from a pay-as-you-go plan to a monthly plan. When I left the store I didn’t have any service but that was because they had to swap my old number out and into my new carrier; I was assured that would happen by mid-afternoon. By after supper it still hadn’t worked so I went back to Walmart because I knew they were open late. The store may be open late but neither the wireless shop nor the photo lab were open. I checked the times; wireless was open at 8 AM and the photo lab opened at ten.

This morning, shortly after eight, I made my way back to Walmart. The wireless shop was open, but the person working was a trainee and unable to help me. So back home I went to wait until the photo lab opened.

Around ten I headed out to the bee; I never intended to sew but I had a few things I needed to drop off for the group and for the meeting I was going to miss. From there I was back to Walmart and the photo lab. Even though I had reformatted my USB key yesterday their machine still wouldn’t see the photos I wanted developed. I bought a new USB key and came home and loaded it with my photos.

And back to Walmart I went. It didn’t take long to get the printing process started, but there were a lot of pictures so while they were printing I went over to the wireless department. They made some calls and said that it would be up and working in half an hour. I picked up my photos, made a stop at Staples, and then went back to Walmart. I decided I was going to wait until they had everything working before I left the store – thankfully they had a chair as I was there for two hours!

I ended up buying a new phone – a cheap one but not a flip phone which was the least expensive. I have the same number but I’m still not very familiar with the new screen and settings. I’ve added a few contacts but I’m not planning to load e-mail on the phone (even if I could figure out how to do it). I tried making a call to Pat at the studio but it looked like I was texting him so I quickly tried to get out of where I was; in the meantime it was dealing his number, he was answering, and I didn’t know how to get back to him.

I never wanted a phone in the first place. I certainly didn’t want to spend so much time at Walmart. I’m not going to rush into learning “what else” it will do!