Cell Phone Hell

How would you feel if you paid to ride the bus and as you were getting off, the bus driver told you that you needed to pay again?

How would you feel if you mailed your mom a package and as the mailman hands your mom the package, he asks for her to pay the postage, again?

How would you feel if you placed a call to your buddy on your cell phone and the phone company deducted minutes from your phone plan and also deducted minutes from your buddy's phone plan?

Oh wait.......that really happens. The cell phone companies always double bill.

let's try this again.

How would you feel if your satellite or cable TV blacked out in the middle of watching American Idol. let's do one better. How would you feel if American Idol blacked out the same time every week?

You wouldn't put up with that. You would fight the TV company to have it fixed.

So why do you settle for your cell phone calls to be dropped in the same spot driving home from work or passing the school or traveling on the toll road. We all know these spots as dead zones. We continue to call people back or even hang up quickly knowing we are going into a dead zone. How pathetic is that?

How many times have you put up with this crappy service and not complained once? Do you realize how bad cell phone service is and how much money they are making off of this bad service?

Do you know that the cell companies charge you for text messaging? Do you know that a text message is just a blip of information. One little blip that can cost up to $0.25 per blip. Oh.....and by the way.... they charge the person receiving the text message, too. What a shock!

Do you realize that a 10 second ring tone of a song is $2.99 and yet you can get the entire song on iTunes for $0.99?

I went to the hardware store last night and bought a magnifying lamp for $6.99. The store offered me a protection plan. Can you believe it. A protection plan for a stupid $6.99 lamp. I just bought the new $299 Blackberry 8800 with AT&T and they have no protection plan available for any of the Blackberry phones. What a rip! I could feel the new phone breaking in my hand as I walked out of the store.

If you think about it long enough, it's embarrassing that we have put up with this money scam called the cell phone industry.

I have blogged on it before and I will pray for it again. Google Phone (Gphone) is coming. I have heard that it will shake up the cell phone industry by giving us unlimited minutes, emails, internet, and texting for one low price. I hope Google is our savior from cell phone hell.