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January 9, 2007
Next Tale of Nextel
As I mentioned yesterday, Samson and I went to Monster Jam accompanied by his buddy Alex.
Alex had spent the prior night and I was to call his father when Monster Jam was over.
As I mentioned last month my cell phone service in provided (and I use the term loosely) by Nextel. Maybe you recall how I bitched about their inability to get my voice messages to me in a timely fashion.
Anyway.
Monster Jam ended around 4 p.m. The boys and I hung around for a bit and then hit the road around 5 p.m. I called Alex's dad and left a message for him.
He never called back. Or so it seemed.
At 7:30 I turned my phone off and on as someone had suggested it might trigger a message delivery if one was waiting. No messages came in so I called Alex's dad again. He answered and we decided to meet at CompUSA "in an hour" which made it 8:30 p.m. (This is only important only as it establishes the time I turned my phone off then back on. The boys and I were out having a good time so we were fine having Alex hang with us.)
Move forward to Sunday.
I was relaxing in a recliner and reading a book. My phone was sitting on the table next to me. Sitting and not ringing. And then at 3:52 p.m. the "you've got a voice message" sound started coming out of it. I looked at the display and found I had two messages.
Message 1: Saturday, 6:57 p.m.
It was Alex's dad calling to arrange pick-up.
I guess it's a good thing I didn't wait to hear from him. He may have charged me with kidnapping.
Message 2: Sunday, 3:51 p.m.
It was The Wife at The Time. She had called a minute before ... the phone never rang.
Posted by delmer at January 9, 2007 7:55 AM
Comments
That has happened with me when I had AT&T, then Sprint, and then Cingular (which used to be AT&T). It doesn't matter what provider you use, this crap will happen.
Posted by: The Phoenix at January 9, 2007 9:17 AM
That's what I was afraid of.
Posted by: delmer at January 9, 2007 9:37 AM
Can you not do text messaging on cell phones there? I don't use voicemail on my phone at all - if it's urgent people text me and if not they call back later.
PS Is your email buggered up again?
Posted by: Pen at January 9, 2007 11:01 AM
We can text message her, I just seem to lack that skill.
And yes, the e-mail is boogered up. Enough stuff was coming through that I didn't notice the problem.
Posted by: delmer at January 9, 2007 11:23 AM