Me too. I say that exact phrase often.

Damn, that sucks Tony. You don't know how long it can take to get that straightened out. I feel for you man.

I changed over to a "smart" phone about a year ago. Dam it was a PITA to get used to.

I'm good if Hank is

The phone does actually have a lot of good stuff on it. It's just so hard for me to figure it out. Everybody says I will get used to it and really like it. We shall see.

Give me a call on the shop line, not the smart phone, as I can't answer the stinkin thing half the time. Let me know if you are headed up.

Last night I was in the kitchen. I hear someone talking. The phone was setting on the stand in the living room on the charger. I'm like "WTF is that"? I go into the living room and there is a guy from a survey taking place that is speaking on my phone. It didn't ring, but it was on and I picked it up and started talking to the guy. How in the hell can this be? He was able to listen to me just like it rang and I answered it. This I do not like at all.

I never heard of anything like that before. You have some of the wildest things happen to you.

What I hate is on my Iphone they are constantly updating the hardware. And if you up date the phone it changes all my settings and I have reset everything.

Yep, same thing Kathy said when she heard the guy talking. We went out for a steak dinner tonight. Ordered the rib-eye. When the waitress brought it out and set it down, she said go ahead and cut it and see if it's done right. I attempted to cut it. It was the toughest steak that I have ever seen. I had her try to cut it, She sawed her way about half way through and quit. Took it to the manager. She couldn't cut it either. I'm going to make some toast. Hard to wreck toast.

Mine keeps beeping, saying "9 updates available". I'm not even going there.

Hey missed this. I was down and out this weekend anyway. Tooth infection/abscess. Got some antibiotics, saw the Dentist yesterday. Guess I have to get a root canal. Need to call this morning and set up appt. for that, oh boy.

Good luck with that one Hank.

10:15 next Tuesday for the root canal. Doesn't hurt anymore, antibiotics took care of that. Not looking forward to the root canal but had one done by this group of Docs a few years back. Doc and his assistant where like robots, wham, bam, thank you mam. Oh, that will be around $1,000, thanks.

Worst part is that tooth has a cap. So they'll drill the cap, do the root canal and send me on my way. Then I have to go to my dentist to have whatever crap they stuff in there pulled out and the cap sealed up. Don't have time for this crap. I can't believe how much shit I have to do and I'm retired, you'd think I'd have plenty of time. Oh, and 5 minutes ago Lynda asks about going to Henry's house tomorrow to help him with some more shit. Sure, I got nothing but time. Spent most every weekend at his house this year, what's another day.

A grand for a root canal....then more for another dentist...your geting taken.
Check into going to costa rica for your dental work.
Nice hotel..owned by the dentist...and will cost you less than half that.
My wife had 25 grand in the USA implants done for under 6 grand down there.
Check it out.

Not worth going to Costa Rica from MI for one root canal. For multiple implants, sure, but not one root canal.

Plus your new phone won't work down there!! :)

I don't know Bill. Our daughter is in Thailand right now. A little vacation with some friends. T-Mobile gave her the unlock code for her phone so she could buy and install a prepaid sim card over there. A lot cheaper than paying T-Mobile international rates.

Yeah Hank, I deal with this all the time. Will be heading back to Europe next Wed night, in fact.

I've got an account with a mobile phone company in the UK. I simply swap SIM cards in my iPhone from the Verizon one to the Mobal one. Changes my phone over to a UK number and all calls, texts, ect are charged on a per use/minute basis. All my Contacts remain in the phone.
No monthly service costs.
http://www.mobal.com/international-gsm-sim-card/

Works well...been doing this for years even while traveling outside the US when I worked. Mobal bills my Debit card.

OK, this is some crazy shit with this phone. I was making supper when I hear my daughter, who lives in Texas, say "dad, can you hear me, I can hear you". The son of a bitchin phone didn't ring out loud, but it answered itself again.

Tony, you obviously bought the latest, greatest phone available. My old fashion phone, getting close to 10 months old now, won't do that. I have to answer the damn thing. You're on the bleeding edge of technology my friend. Next version will not only answer the phone put carry on a conversation with whomever called so you don't have to be bothered. Could be a real time saver.

Hank, you a funny mo-fo! Made me laugh, and I sure as hell needed a laugh!. This phone has that text thing where you say words at it and it makes text out of it. Only I have to learn to proof read that shit before I hit send. Some of the stuff, I have no idea what I was trying to say when I read it.

Glad you had a laugh Tony. Guess you need to talk to them about your phone. There has to be some setting that let's it answer or else it's broke. Try bouncing it off the wall once or twice. That usually resets them so they don't auto answer.

There is a auto answer setting in there.

Thanks! I did a Google search for that and found something on it. I think that did the trick. The setting has to be on, not off. Who would of known that?

What? You didn't try bouncing it off the wall as I suggested? That usually resets everything.

Well, that didn't work. This POS answered itself twice today. I changed the setting back to "on" and it answered itself again. It's going back to the phone joint in the morning. The way it is, someone could hear all my conversations when the POS does it.

More phone drama. It kept answering itself when I was down south, then it wouldn't send any pictures or email. It would made 6 ding sounds about every 30 seconds, then "sending failed" would show up on the screen. Every stinking 30 seconds until I shut it off. I took it to a Verizon dealer. He said the SIM card was bad, so he changed it at a cost of 22 bucks. It is supposed to be under warranty, but because I was from out of town, he gave me some bullshit about getting a refund from my phone store. That fixed the email, but still answered itself. Took it to the place that I bought it from today. He did a "wipe" of the thing. Lost all the pictures that I just took in Florida. They are in the 'cloud", but I have no clue as to how to get them back.

Got a new phone today. Was at the Verizon store yesterday and it answered itself. Guy about shit. He said he thought it was me being stupid all along. Changed his tune when he heard is himself.

Hopefully this one functions better than the last one and has a working clock.

A working clock!!!! Crack me up!

As of today at noon I can turn off my work phone and drop off my on call phone to a co worker and only have 1 phone to deal with .Luckily the on call one has been quite this week.

Good luck. Sounds like you are about to start a new chapter in your life. Enjoy it my friend, enjoy it.