Gripe

[Alcibiades]

In the wake of f0xx's gripe that wasn't strictly relegated to the game, i have a gripe that i simply must rant about.

Today i moved into a new apartment and so i didn't have internet/phone/cable hooked up yet (i should have done this in advance but didn't, my fault, i know ). however, this gripe has nothing to do with customer service (at least not theirs) and the annoyance of companies and being on hold (i ****ing hate Musak/elevator music... it steals my soul a bit everytime i hear it.)

Anyhow, so i don't have a phone, or a cell phone (okay i'm a bit old fashioned, deal.) i just can't afford/don't like cellphones. Now in this case it might be handy but bleh, this is still not totally relevant to my rambling gripe.

So i need to make several phone calls of varying importance from purchasing drugs ( ) to finding out if i had to work to setting up an appointment to get phone/internet/cable (which they do a mandatory week wait before installing your package.. i mean really, what the ****ing **** i don't need it in a week, i need it now you *******s, and i know you're hooking up cable/internet/phone in 17 other apartments in here between now and then so why the hell can't you just hook mine up too? More trips means more pain in the ass for the worker i'd have thought but meh. still not my gripe.)

So i have to make all these calls and i'm just getting more and more angry because i have to go looking for a payphone. (oh joy of a joys, a disease riddled public telephone which is most likely been molested severely in a manner unbecoming of a phone booth.) So i have to walk for ****ing MILES, and i mean literally about 2 miles before i find a phone booth which actually works. I ran into 3 phone booths in total along that route 1 of which was missing a handset, 1 of which simply didn't have a dial tone, and then the third one, a greasy, graffiti ridden exposed phone booth along the side of an extraordinarily busy road. Great ****ing placement you knobs, jesus H christ i have to yell into the phone. in case you've ever had a hankering to wait on hold in a public area on a public phone, i can tell you right now that you should go crush your head in a vice and save yourself the time, effort, and trouble.

So, this phone finally has all the required pieces, and includes a dialtone (hooray!). Now, i go to put my 25 cents into the slot and it happily slides in without any trouble at all and then suddenly, what the ****, the phone doesn't 'like' the quarter. That's the only possible explanation and it's goddamn madness! I try it a few times because i know sometimes it just doesn't work on the first time through (why i don't know but that's just life). Anyhow, no such luck, so i try a second quarter and wtf, why i don't know, but it works, just like that. what's the difference? i don't know, they look the same, smell the same, taste the same (awfully metallic, i don't recommend that either) and feel the same. so whatever, jesus christ, i just.. goddamn long day and whatnot.

So to move on to my gripe it's really about cellphones and how they've destroyed the public phone business. I mean, there was a time when i was younger when i remember you couldn't walk like 100 yards without finding a public phone booth or w/e.

I mean what the ****, what pile of crap are they fostering on me now trying to get me to get a bloody cellphone which i don't bloody want so they remove all the public phones. i mean jesus goddamn christ on a cracker. What madness are they perpetrating on me?! And of course the graffiti in these phone booths is just this side of totally nauseating.

it's been a long stressful day and this felt awfully good to write. Thanks!

[TheNamelessWonder]

Get a cellphone, noob!

[Alcibiades]

Originally Posted by TheNamelessWonder

Get a cellphone, noob!

THEY CAUSE CANCER! n00b!

[TheNamelessWonder]

Know why the phone booths and stuff are in such disrepair? Nobody uses them. They are outdated. We have cellphones now.

[f0xx]

Originally Posted by Alcibiades

THEY CAUSE CANCER! n00b!

The stress you expirienced while trying to find a booth that actually works has caused more cancer than all of the cell phones can cause you for a lifetime.

And again, get a cell phone, you were crying for this to happen to you

Pfft, even in Bulgaria most people have 2 cells phones nowadays...

[Darryl]

Screw mobile phones, nothing more than an electronic tether. Who wants people to just be able to call you whereever you are? Not me! Having no house phone in addition to that is rather inconvenient though, I'd guess.

[vlad]

You made me laugh, i'm sorry, but yeah. Sounds quite funny/anoyying having to walk all that way to be told you have to wait so long. But did u have to keep pipping in extra money while u were on hold? lol

[Garrett]

Originally Posted by f0xx

Pfft, even in Bulgaria most people have 2 cells phones nowadays...

yes. usually the string comes with 2 cans attached. it's cute you call them cell phones now.

<3

[f0xx]

Rofl you cheap *******, you got me here

[Alcibiades]

Originally Posted by Darryl

Screw mobile phones, nothing more than an electronic tether. Who wants people to just be able to call you whereever you are? Not me! Having no house phone in addition to that is rather inconvenient though, I'd guess.

Agreed. I don't want to be accessible every hour of the day or night. It's just plain wrong. Public life and private life should be separated (here i'm talking about jobs and your private life.) and i think a cellphone does not help that separation.

i work in a restaurant and i simply cannot tell you the amount of aggravation that is caused by idiots on their blackberry/cellphone/gadget. It makes me want to kill them, way to ruin a meal/party/celebration with your annoyingly loud talk about something which clearly isn't vital. If it was vital you wouldn't be at dinner >.<

Vlad: i'm glad you found it funny, i wrote it in a semi humorous way and no thank god i didn't have to keep pumping in the coins, then i'd have really lost it.

[TheNamelessWonder]

So turn your cell phone off when you aren't using it! *shock* *awe* *horror*

[Alcibiades]

Originally Posted by TheNamelessWonder

So turn your cell phone off when you aren't using it! *shock* *awe* *horror*

Then why would i get one in the first place?!

[Garrett]

Let it go Alci, there is seemingly no way to humor/convince/argue with the nameless blunder.

[Alcibiades]

I like Nameless, Garrett.

i just think he's wrong in this case. Maybe he's just being contrary but he does call me a n00b a fair bit. Usually i deserve it

[Souls]

I enjoy the fact that I can contact someone at any time without having to ask other people to use their phone. It's also a hassle to me when someone walks up and asks to use mine.

I wouldn't worry about being contactable 24/7 because, people just don't call me. Quit being such a tunnelvisioner, Alci