cowpuc Posted April 28, 2016 #1 Posted April 28, 2016 People often comment to me about my being stuck in the "old school" days. This doesnt only effect my love for certain types of bikes, it also effects everyday life around the Puc and Tippy home. An example of this is the fact that Tip and I dont do the modern day Android phone thingy like most civilized people do.. We do however have a little Trac phone that we use on occasion. This morning we wake up to a strange noise in the kitchen. It was a warning coming from our Trac phone that we were OUT of "days" and it needed to be fed - it had plenty of "minutes" but the "days" had run out.. In response to this extreme emergency we fly out the door, jump in the car, go to the local gas station and buy an airtime card = 200 minutes and 90 days worth of feed. Our sweet little Trac Phone came with a "double minute" feature so we get double minutes, giving us a total of 400 minutes and 90 days to be added. When we got home I remembered getting a Christmas present from Trac Phone that was a little book full of "promo codes" to get extra minutes. Having no idea where that little Christmas present booklet ended up, I asked my lovely Bride and keeper of my brain if she had any idea where it may have landed after I had read it months ago (Tip is the BEST of the BEST at taking care of all that type of stuff). She reached in a drawer in the kitchen and handed me the Trac Phone booklet.. I sat on the couch, airtime info in hand, and started the process of feeding that cute little phone of ours.. Hit menu, hit "add airtime", enter PIN, have a promo - clicked yes,, the little rascal ate the PIN but gave me no chance to enter the Promo number - ahhhh ohhhh I said to Tip who was doing dishes.. Sure enough, all's well but no promo minutes added.. I want my Christmas present really bad so I called the 1-800 number in the booklet.. After dialing the number and entering 1 for the language I speak (english) and a bunch of other 1's and 2's and a couple of 3's I finally got to chat with a foreign sounding women somewhere in a little mud hut in Zimbobway.. After explaining to her that I wanted my Christmas present promo minutes she had me go thru a 5 minute process of entering some wierd codes into my little Trac phone. After doing so she had me turn my Trac phone off (good thing I was calling on my home phone) and then back on again. After the Trac Phone rebooted she asked me if my Christmas present minutes now appeared on the screen.. I looked, a little and then told her I had no idea cause I couldnt remember how many minutes the poor little thing had on it in the 1st place:confused24:.. After a brief moment of silence on her end she said she thought they were successfully added cause her computer screen said the Promo minutes were successfully added.. I then noticed that she had added an extra "Day" of time on my phone giving me 91 days until the Phone would need to be fed again and this whole crisis would be played out again.. I told her thank you and that I looked forward to speaking to her again in 91 days. She didnt ,, more of a response..
Yammer Dan Posted April 28, 2016 #2 Posted April 28, 2016 (edited) I got 7,748 minutes on my Trac Phone. No idea how many days!! Only use it when we leave home...Need to leave more often!! I would like to feel some sand between my toes this year. And RIDE a Little!! There I said it. Spent a hour or so in the garage yesterday looking and listening to bike. Got a couple hrs work to put it on the road. May want to buy some tags......:backinmyday: And yeah I saw some marbles chasing mine last lap they made around here before they headed out again.... Edited April 28, 2016 by Yammer Dan
cowpuc Posted April 28, 2016 Author #3 Posted April 28, 2016 I got 7,748 minutes on my Trac Phone. No idea how many days!! Only use it when we leave home...Need to leave more often!! I would like to feel some sand between my toes this year. And RIDE a Little!! There I said it. Spent a hour or so in the garage yesterday looking and listening to bike. Got a couple hrs work to put it on the road. May want to buy some tags......:backinmyday: And yeah I saw some marbles chasing mine last lap they made around here before they headed out again.... Yep,, probably some of mine DanL,, you know what they say - birds of a feather flock together,, no idea how that applies to our marbles but it sounded good
Flyinfool Posted April 28, 2016 #4 Posted April 28, 2016 Well if you do find any spare marbles, I have been told that I have lost more than just a few of mine.
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