What Was Wrong with My Princess Phone?

(Audrey Hepburn by Mark Shaw)

Is there ANYTHING more annoying, short of car shopping, than buying a new phone!? I would rather sit in a dentist's chair.

Here in my opinion is what a phone should do...You dial my number, my phone rings, I answer it...we talk!  REALLY Simple!  Been working well since about 1876.  

Here is what a phone SHOULD NOT do-it should not keep me up til 2:30 in the morning trying to figure out how to stop the annoying beeps it makes...it should NOT dance, sing, whistle, show me cute pictures of kittens, refuse to let me answer a call or at any point YELL at me!  Can you tell I bought a new phone!

(Get Smart)

Honestly, I'm not being a dinosaur here! I NEED my phone and I actually need my phone to deliver more than a conversation.  I gave up having a land line years ago so this little annoying piece of equipment- with no wires except when charging which it seems to need every 5 minutes- has in fact become for most of us not only a phone but also my traveling office.  

(Audrey Hepburn,Charade)

 At last count I have no fewer than 10 email boxes that need to be checked and "on my old phone" there they were with mail flying in all day everyday 365 days a year. I don't ask a lot of a phone--I need my emails to arrive in real time and when the phone rings there should be an easy way to answer it.

(Grace Kelly)

But this new thing...I cannot even find the answer button!!! I am an educated, sophisticated, capable woman...How did this happen? Why am I so reliant on a piece of cold metal that  doesn't even know how to knit, I know how to knit! HA! Take that foolish phone! I used to have a sweet little pink phone in my bedroom growing up--you picked it up there was a dialtone you dialed and off you went...Seriously, I'm going to look for it but it won't fit in my bag.

(Doris Day, Pillow Talk)

OK so the cords could go, and speed dialing and voicemail are good, but really do I need a $950 phone with a 2 year contract and a $60 case and...Really??!!! They saw me coming!  No, really they saw me coming! I envy Wilma's phone.

(Wilma Flintstone)

The smart phone world moves really fast-sort of like the second you drive a new car off the lot it loses half its value... with a new smart phone when you wake up the next morning there are 6 new ones all better than the one you haven't even learned how to use yet.

Change is tough- especially when you can use your phone literally in your sleep and never even have to look at where you are tapping...but even I had to admit it was time for a new phone. 

 (Betty Rubble)

I love my old Blackberry Buddy, knowing full well "NO ONE" -or so I have been told-uses a Blackberry anymore. (Hey, I still have AOL accounts so don't start with me!) It sort of became embarrassing, like wearing things from WAY back in the closet.  Yes I was tempted by all the bright shiny new thing at the phone store and that my friends use.  Thin, slim, light, sleek and big screens sparkled at me...but...

At this point I miss my pink silicone covered dinosaur, the one I have nearly thrown in the trash with frustration over the past months as it died again,and again, and again... I feel like Andy in "Toy Story" who tossed his best buddy Woody away when the new toy with the blinking lights came along.  Sure, I want a new phone,  but I need a reliable friend who will do what I ask when I ask over any Buzz Lightyear.   By the end of the day my BB (Blackberry Buddy) was back home with me!  and there is the promise of "...another new phone coming out in just a week or so that might work better for you Maam..." on the horizon.   So in another couple of weeks I get to do this all over again!  They said they  would call me and let me know ! :)

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