:: Phone shark ::

Friday, February 06, 2004

As regular readers (and, fully appreciating the addictive powers of this site, I doubt there are any other kind) know, I switched over to Sprint PCS for their seductive new Treo 600 (side note: I do not regret this - despite the painful LNP process, I've come to really enjoy the device) and, since my family was already using Sprint, joined a group plan in order to (as it turns out, significantly) reduce my bill. The one downside is that I now have to transfer money from my bank account into my father's instead of cutting a check to MegaGloboWireless PLC. He scans the statements as they arrive, compresses the images in a password-protected zip file, and then emails the appropriate file to each son. No, really, he does. Every month. It was the same way when I was living at home in high-school, having to verify an itemized list of all my long-distance calls on each bill for the house's land-line, calculate the total and kick back what I owed, but with DES encryption.

Sprint, in an effort to woo new customers, offered me some incentives if I'd switch (which I'd already decided to do, but gift horse, mouth, and such) most of which consisted of waiving almost all the fees and charges for the first two months. Taking those into account, and seeing as I didn't exceed my allotment of minutes, my phone bill this month amounted to a whopping $4.95.

Tonight I received a call from my father, barreling down the freeway en route back home to the empty nest, informing me that I was delinquent with my $4.95. He insisted that I conduct the bank transfer tomorrow.

When I inquired as to the possibility of spreading the payment over three easy installments of $1.65 he was not amused.

Posted by morland @ 12:11 AM

:: Comments ::

That is freaking crazy. Honestly, just send him a $50 and have it be prepaid. Jesus H Christ.

Posted by: rob on February 6, 2004 05:22 PM

yeah, i'm so surprised that he wasn't amused. but then again, he used to change his DirecTV password every week.

Posted by: The guy who lives in vail on February 7, 2004 04:45 AM

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