Something Came to Me the Other Day......................

.....I must first preface by saying I despise Verizon Wireless and I am a customer. I have despised them for quite some time in fact. Way back in 2000 when I got my first Verizon phone plan, The All Florida Plan, which worked every where except where I lived; in Florida. Only $49.00 a month, which came out to roughly $170.00 a month with fees, taxes, surcharges, @!$%# we know you have money left in your bank account charges, the usual. So my opinion is surely biased. I have tried other services, ATT, Virgin, TracPhone(who took the pay as you go option to its current heights of larceny) and settled again on Verizon recently. Verizon pay as you go should include a coin slot on the @!$%#ing phones. It would be far easier than entering all those pesky pin numbers. When my balance gets low they contact me so often I feel as if I should send them a bloody card or something for their show of concern. And my balance gets low about the time I make a call after loading a fresh card of minutes. So anyway to get to the point, I was pondering that advertising campaign they ran some years back; "Can ya hear me now?" I was born into the age of rotary dial phones. There were no cell phones cept on Star Trek. I cannot recall a single instance of looking into that phone and asking 'Can you hear me now?' Hell yes they could hear me if I put the damned phone up to my mouth instead of down under my chin. We had good service back then. These days each new commercial on TV for cell phones contains up to 60 seconds of denial of any service even hinted at in the advertisement. They lie, continuously. So I was thinking..."Can ya hear me now?" and something always bugged me about that ad. I finally figured out what it was..........................................

..... You never heard anyone come back and say; "Yea I can hear you now!" And that in itself really kind of tells the actual truth of all cell phones. They are like walkie talkies or the old antennas for the TV, rabbit ears. You have to hold your mouth just so, raise your left leg up 9", lean 3.1" to the left, and then ask; "Can ya hear me now?" of course the answer will be lost in the garble along with any thing important that may be being said. But that came to me the other day thought I would share it. Later................