Mr. Rhee’s unsolved mysteries
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 (5 years, 1 month ago)On the side, I’m trying to find out solutions for two life problems: High prices for college text books and crap-ass cellphone service. I’m still working on a solution for that first one, but I have some ideas about how to bring bad cellphone service providors to their knees on a friday night. Hopefully these ideas will actually get off the ground in the near future.
I still don’t own a cellphone and I hope to never have the need for one. Maybe I’ll cave in and have one for emergencies in case I decide to go climbing up a mountain for fun and realize that I shouldn’t try to reach the top of anything without an elevator, but for the most part, I think all of those companies shit on their customers’ heads while demanding thanks for the hat.
If people are going to get screwed with a two year contract, they should have every single piece of buying information presented to them upfront, instead of getting surprised with a “Oops, our service doesn’t work if you’re standing next to anything made out of cement or anything that contains water!” message.
Yes, my girlfriend has to call me from a hot air balloon, while staying far enough away from those water-containing clouds to get decent reception on her AT&T cellphone. It was even worse last year when hot air balloon rental prices were at record highs.