The Pony was last heard from Monday evening, on Facebook, by Farmer H. He was going to come out on Wednesday morning at 9:00 to use my phone to order a new phone. That's because it had to be done through a text that would be sent when placing the order. A text. Which The Pony's phone cannot currently send or receive.
I got off the short couch earlier than usual. Didn't get my regular snoozing done when Farmer H left the Mansion at 6:15. I washed the dishes and turned on HIPPIE and waited. And waited. I thought maybe The Pony was running late. Had overslept, maybe. Or stopped for gas. At 9:46 I called Farmer H.
"The Pony still hasn't arrived. I guess he's okay."
Thinking, you know, that maybe Farmer H could hop in SilverRedO and drive less than two miles from Bargain House to Pony House, just to see if The Pony's car was still in the driveway. Maybe knock if it was, in case he was still asleep. I know The Pony really wants to get this phone issue solved, and Wednesday is his day off to do that.
"I'm sure he's okay." Said Farmer H.
Back to waiting. At 10:18, I had to take a bathroom break from all that waiting! On the way, I heard my phone get something. I figured it was just a junk email, which I'd been getting all morning, along with two scammy calls I didn't answer. When I returned to the kitchen, I checked my phone.
There was an email from The Pony, saying that he'd sent Farmer H a message that hadn't been read. And that he remembered his phone could still email, and it would go to my phone. The Pony had a migraine, and didn't feel like driving out to the Mansion.
That was a relief, to know what was going on. Except that the email was sent at 9:48, and didn't get to my phone until 10:18. I called Farmer H, and told him that apparently The Pony had sent him a message that he hadn't bothered to check. Farmer H said he didn't hear it come in. But was relieved to know why The Pony was missing.
At 10:32 I got a text from Farmer H, saying his message just came through.
"Our phones are crap! But at least they're better than The Pony's!"
To which Farmer H agreed.
4 comments:
Half an hour for a message to come through?? You all need better phones. What if it was an emergency call for help?
River,
Half an hour is fast, compared to some of the texts between me and Farmer H! It's not so much our physical phones as our phone service and our location. We've tried other phone companies, and this was the best. AT&T couldn't even get a signal out here.
I'm not sure about Farmer H's phone, because he was in town at the time of the message, where there's usually good reception. Unless he was down at his storage unit store, where he can't get a signal inside.
We kept our landline for a long time, just in case of emergencies, but it was over $100 a month, and then quit working, so not worth getting it fixed and continuing to pay for something we rarely used.
Maybe this time the delay was due to The Pony's actual broken phone.
So the phone companies need to up their game.
River,
Yes! Hard to believe that over 50 years ago, we could put people on the moon, and the president could talk to them on a landline in his office, but in these modern times we can't get cell phone reception to Hillmomba. We are only 5 miles out of town. Not in the wilderness! Not on the moon!
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