Thu, 03 Nov 2005
Yesterday I lost my phone. Mostly likely it was grabbed by a 7th grader who missed the lesson on why stealing other people's stuff is not cool. So today I thought I would go online and find out just how much it's going to cost me to get a new one. Cell phone companies aren't big on telling you the real price of phones. They like to let you know just how cheap it will be once you sign a brand-new two-year contract, but if you want to know how much the phone costs all by itself you have to log into your account. Which would have been fine, except they recently enacted a policy by which you need not only your account number and pin number, but also a user name and password. The user name you can pick yourself, but the password they have to send you. And they can only do this as a text message.
To sum up: To get a phone, I need a password. To get a password, I need a phone.
I suspect this is all a nefarious plot to get me to go to the mall.
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