A New Phone

E.'s phone, which he's had since 1982 or somewhere thereabouts, has finally given up the ghost. He actually thought the battery was just dead, but after charging it all weekend and not even getting a blip of power, he conceded that his phone wasn't coming back to life.

It's hard to imagine a time without cell phones. How did we all once survive? It's a convenience we've come to take for granted, but almost can't live without. With that in mind, a trip to the cell phone store was on the agenda for first thing this morning.

E. now has a cell phone in hand. The problem should be solved, right? Life should be back to normal, right? There's a couple of problems though. The first problem is that just because he has a cell phone, doesn't mean he knows how to use it. There will be a learning curved involved, no doubt. The second problem presents even more of dilemma. None of the contacts from E.'s old phone were able to be transferred to E.'s new phone (and without the ability to turn the sucker on, we can't even retrieve them manually).

So, if you'd like to hear from E. ever again, you're gonna have to give him a call or send him a text (and make sure you leave YOUR NAME AND YOUR NUMBER). His cell phone number is still the same, but his contact list is empty. Please help us fix that.

Thanks,

S.