The gods love to tease

I'm not writing this as a complaint, but rather as a humerous event that happened last week.

In an effort to keep in touch, my parents added me and my sister on a cell phone plan.  Go figure, my parents and my sister got new cell phones and I was stuck with their old one which was about 2 years old.  I wasn't too disappointed, I never carried a cell phone before, and didn't care too much about it.  However, as things started breaking on my phone, I became annoyed.  The internal speaker wouldn't work (had to constantly use the speaker phone), when I charged it, it would randomly change my ring tone (even when taken off the charger), and a few other annoyances that just continued to get worse.

Well, my phone was eligable for a $100 upgrade.  First of all, if you're with verizon, make sure you have the original person who is on the bill available if you are going to talk to verizon.  I was unable to do nothing, because I was not the original person who started the plan.  That was quite frustrating, for both getting my new phone, and activating it.

Any rate.  My father finally ordered my new phone (which was more than $100, but is free because of sales and rebate, sweet!).  He ordered it and had it shipped to me, which should have arrived in 2 days (as Verizon told me).  All during that week, I was excited about getting a new working phone.  Every single day, the gods teased me by constantly showing me UPS trucks.  Any time I went out to town, I would pass a truck and wonder if it would stop by my house.  Well, about 5 days passed and I still didn't have my phone.  But, the gods continued to tease.  Finally, my father calls me and tells me my uncle has the phone (for some reason, the UPS truck left the package with my uncle because I wasn't home).

But, I finally have my new phone, and love it.  I have a color screen and a camera!  Cool.