Alas, poor Pony! The Universe has leveled a severe blow. It happened on Thursday, our casino day. I checked my phone around 5:30 a.m., waiting for Farmer H to come out at his regular time and bring Pepper in to play.
Huh. There was an email. From The Pony! That was unusual.
"Well. As of now, my phone appears to be completely dead. I'm not sure if it'll even ring, but right now it doesn't even open. I'll try to be there on time."
At 6:00, I called The Pony. I had intended to do so, as a wakeup call. The Pony answered, surprised that the phone rang. Still. It was NOT miraculously fixed.
Yeah. That's not normal. While I DO like the color, heh, heh, I wouldn't want that to be MY phone screen. You can't get into anything. Can't send or receive texts. Can't call out. Can't set alarms. Thankfully, it will ring and let The Pony answer.
We still have The Pony's phone on our account, for the unlimited internet. The Pony pays us every month. This phone is still not paid for from when it was bought last year. It's a monthly payment, not an outright purchase. Luckily, Farmer H and The Pony have a protection plan. They are hard on phones.
Anyhoo... The Pony was planning to take the phone to the T-Mobile store over in Bill-Paying Town, to see where to take it for fixing. But upon searching about it on the laptop, discovered that now they usually give a replacement phone (refurbished) for $99, rather than fixing them on site. Last time Hick and The Pony had to take the broken phone to a St. Louis facility for fixing.
Anyhoo... the plan was for The Pony to file the claim online for the damage [it fell in the sink a couple weeks ago but was fine until now] and the replacement. Except that the account needed a one-step verification to get in (which had been set that way by The Pony) consisting of a code number sent by text. Which The Pony can't receive on the broken phone! It's set specific to the phone number. So doing it on mine or Farmer H's wouldn't work. No wonder The Pony had a migraine on Friday.
But wait! On Saturday morning at 5:33, I got a text. From The Pony!!!
"Holy sh!t I woke up after an alarm went off and the screen worked just long enough to connect it to my computer so I can get the texts and everything. Literally the second I got it linked the screen glitched out again. It already stopped working again but I can get one time passwords and everything from it now on my computer. My heart is pounding from the rush to set that up."
Anyhoo... The Pony got the claim filed. Paid the deductible and the tax. It was approved automatically, and now The Pony has a shipping number to track it with UPS. The "new" phone is expected on Monday or Tuesday.
It seems like The Universe had a change of heart.
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