looking

I find myself looking at phones for the umpteenth (I have no idea what that really means but I'm trying to say a big not precise number) time in my life and this thing is partially to blame. I just got a phone seven or eight months ago and it is perfectly adequate. The baseline iPhone SE. Paid it off completely with my trade in fact they owed me money. For all that time it did what I needed and then things changed. We went to a new benefits provider and the screen wasn't quite big enough for me to approve things over the phone. Not the biggest of deals because I'm never far from a computer but annoying none the less.

Then my bank app started acting up as I was attempting to transfer money around the family accounts. Again I had to find a bigger screen after calling the less than help desk only to be hit with "oh, an ssssssss eeeeeee..." He said it like I was the only one who didn't know it stood for the Syphilis Edition. Shitty, getting talked down to by a dude in the Philippines about my choice in phones, but not a deal breaker. The final straw that has me looking is this very software I type on now.

For some reason WordPress has trouble publishing from my tiny telephone. I'm not sure what it is but I wrote a very pithy observation from what I recall and it was lost to the ether. Their support was no help so I decided to start looking around at phones. This brought me to my local AT&T store. Long story longer, I was talked nearly to death by a centaur. She explained the lack of supply and even though I expressed my disinterest she droned on about the new Apple health program and how it will never supplant her beloved Peloton.

When I made a joke that I hoped I didn't need to buy special shoes to get one of these phones she got offended. (for those not in the know Peloton requires specific footwear to utilize their bicycle to nowhere) Now I had to buckle in for the explanation that the footwear allows for the working of the pushing and the pulling leg muscles coming from a half human half plow horse. If the people from Tricking People Into Riding Bikes Inside For A Fee Inc. or whatever the evil cabal that invented that status symbol system is called could see past the screen view they might ask her to dial down the advocacy.

I was a mixture of concerned and impressed. Luckily I was there alone because given an audience of even one I might have loosed some of my inner monolog. I was choking back things like how many acres she plows during the average class, If she ever catches the apple on a string in front of her face, etc. Needless to say but here I go anyway; I didn't end up getting a phone. I got out of there before any trampling commenced. The search continues.