I’m A Loser

You’d never know it to look at me, but it’s true.

I lost my third cell phone in less than a year last week.

Sub­se­quently I did something I’ve not done before. I had Veri­zon totally deac­ti­vate the phone via serial num­ber, so no one will be able to use it again ever.

Never bothe­ring to take such a step in the past this time, dis­gus­ted with my own care­less­ness, I took it out on the lucky per­son who found it. The per­son who repea­tedly igno­red my phone calls while wai­ting for me to give up, and get a new phone so they could sell my old one on Ebay.

Eh. Not gonna hap­pen this time.

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17 Comments

  • You’re spru­cing up the blog! Guess it’s that time of year — I had chan­ged my entire theme/layout and did all this css/html twea­king and then deci­ded to go back to the old theme. Who knows. Maybe I’ll change my mind again.

    I’m liking your chan­ges though!!

    And sorry about the cell phone fiasco. Sounds ridi­cu­lously horrible!!!

    • I’ve yet to come up with a theme I’m totally com­for­ta­ble with. Believe it or not my ori­gi­nal blogs­pot blog with a theme twea­ked from “mays­tar designs” was my favo­rite look.

      I love the­mes by a desig­ner named Millo or something like that but I can never get them to work with my blog.

      Yea, I’m a loser in the cell phone department.

    • It seems like it’s in the air. I too spent this wee­kend giving my blog a makeo­ver while trying to sur­vive the heat…glad to know thought that it was your cellphone that you were refe­rring to…I thought you might have been refe­rring to peo­ple that rede­sign their blogs.

      • I guess I’d be a loser in that situa­tion as well because I change this often, not satis­fied yet with the per­fect one. I really should have one desig­ned just for me then I’d pro­bably be happy.

        • I’ve been thin­king about that too — hiring someone to design a theme for me. But it seems rather costly and I won­der if it’s REALLY worth it since there are so many the­mes out there for free. But hell, I can never seem to be satisfied.

          You are not alone on this one!!

  • I’ve never lost a phone. Bro­ken seve­ral.
    I didn’t know you had to spe­ci­fi­cally do something to pre­vent them from being used again.

  • I’ve never lost a phone, land or other­wise. But I’ll write down the serial num­ber just in case.

    • Actually you don’t have to write it down your carrier has the serial num­ber, you just have to spe­cify to them when you inac­ti­vate the phone that you want it totally inac­ti­va­ted by the num­ber so it can’t be reac­ti­va­ted by someone who finds other­wise when you deac­ti­vate it anyone can reac­ti­vate the phone to their cell num­ber should they choose — at least with Verizon.

  • Hurry and get a new one so you don’t miss the VP IM from Barack Obama. You know how he gets when you don’t write back.

    • I know, he gets furious when he can’t con­tact me. I told him for future refe­rence though, wha­te­ver he does never push the RED BUTTON.

  • Oh that’s good. Wouldn’t want your direct line with Obama deactivated

    I tend to have pho­nes and came­ras fall into the sea or become wet from being too close. Have taken to carr­ying pho­nes in very tightly clo­sed plas­tic bags

    Just when I begin to get used to your newest theme.…

  • The per­son who found it is the real loser, not ans­we­ring your calls. I’ve lost my cell phone before and before even noti­cing it was mis­sing, the per­son who found it gave my dad a call to tell me it was left at the gro­cery store.

    Well hope­fully the next one you get stays with you lon­ger than a week :)

    • Leigh, dar­ling I so miss you.
      Yea, I’m pretty sure in this case someone scar­fed it right up. Last time I was in Mexico so I really didn’t expect someone to give it back because the rsort area was quite large, but I really expec­ted someone to ans­wer the phone this time.

  • Coo­per, I’ve been mea­ning to ask you — do you use a com­ment plug-in or something??

  • I use Brian’s Threa­ded Comments.