{"id":515,"date":"2003-11-24T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=515"},"modified":"2003-11-24T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T10:22:00","slug":"101-uses-for-a-dead-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-11\/515-101-uses-for-a-dead-cell-phone","title":{"rendered":"101 Uses for a Dead Cell Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.shoprogers.com\/store\/wireless\/services\/payasyougo\/overview.asp\">cell phone<\/a> expired&#8230; <b>AGAIN!<\/b> This is the fourth or fifth time this has happened, and I&#8217;m <b>mad as Hell<\/b> about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got the <i>Pay as you go<\/i> plan, which works out best for me from a cost-benefit perspective. But the stupid service provider has <b>no way<\/b> for me to automatically add to my account before it expires! The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.solopixel.com\/\">plan my parents use<\/a> gives them the ability to do <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\/shop\/application\/commercewf?origin=*.jsp&#038;event=link(goto)&#038;content=\/jsp\/content\/personal\/catalog\/wireless\/prepaid\/airtime.jsp&#038;REF=FLY_PP\">Automatic account top up<\/a>, meaning they don&#8217;t have to remember to do it before it expires!<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but when we were on vacation in <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.battleofplattsburgh.com\/\">Plattsburgh, New York<\/a>, my cell phone had no service available! What&#8217;s the point of having a cell phone if it doesn&#8217;t work. It&#8217;s not like we were out in the bush away from civilization! My younger brother&#8217;s phone (he has a different provider) worked just fine!<\/p>\n<p>I currently have no plans to reactivate it, so don&#8217;t try calling me on my cell phone because I won&#8217;t answer it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cell phone expired&#8230; AGAIN! This is the fourth or fifth time this has happened, and I&#8217;m mad as Hell about the whole thing. I&#8217;ve got the Pay as you go plan, which works out best for me from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2003-11\/515-101-uses-for-a-dead-cell-phone\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}