Flip phone gone?

 

Dear AT&T:  A few months ago you sent a message to Wife and Me saying our flip phones would no longer be “supported” (I believe that was your wording) at some time in the near future.  Well, I would like to remind you, it has not been all that long ago that we both purchased these phones, complete with your “logo” emblazoned on the phones themselves, and at no time during our purchase was it mentioned that the phones would be made inoperative at any time in the future.  Now, if you say there was a notification on one of those fifty (a guess) pages that was provided to let your purchaser know how the phone would be made inoperative sometime in the future, then, I plead ignorance. 

 

In short:  The phones are working fine today, and I expect them to work fine as long as we “own” them. 

 

Now, if “We” do not, in fact, "own" the phones (as I said before, it does have your logo on it), I would like you to send your representative to my house (you do know where I live, right?  You sent me the notice to which I refer) to pick up your soon-to-be inoperative phones and give us your replacements so we can continue to utilize your services—services we have paid you for as we have for quite a few years, now. 

 And, I must admit to a bit of ignorance here.  Is there another company who might provide the services I have paid you for all these years?  If not, I guess it is time for me to become politically active to see what might be done about your (so called) service. 

 Sincerely,

 Stephen V. Geddes

Aiken, South Carolina

Now to see what this might generate.  We all need phones, right?  At least I think I would be just a bit "put out" if I did not have one.

"Problems, problems, problems"  the name of a good 'ole country song, right?  Well, if not that, just what life seems to give us all from time to time.  Any of you having a life without just a few of those "problems?"

You tell me, OK?

Flippin’ with my Flip-phone 

Well, I woke up this morning and before I got too busy doing whatever (got that?  There’s a whole lot of “whatever” in every household, or so I’m told.)  But, as I was saying, before I got too busy, I took a look at my little flip phone and read a message from Aiken Ophthalmology about an appointment I had scheduled while leaving from my last appointment.

 

You know, these messages are a pretty good thing.  Didn’t waste my time, didn’t waste AO’s time, and that appointment will be met, even though forgetful me had not remembered to put it on my calendar last year when I should have.

 

Good deal, Aiken Ophthalmology, good deal, AT&T, and good deal, little flip phone buddy who, according to AT&T, will be going the way of the dinosaurs in another year, AT&T having moved on to a 5G environment, something my little pocket pal will not be able to handle sometime soon. 

 

Well, guess I’ll just have to come up with some sort of alternative to my little pocket buddy (which has served me well—hope I’ll be able to say the same about its replacement.)

 

When, you say?  Well, after five or six years, the time I have had my trusty flip phone, or so I hope!  As far as I’m concerned, though, all I need is another flip phone.  Why do I need to carry around a little computer in my pocket?   All  I  really need is a phone!