Tracfone Update

On Fri­day night I did finally get through to a CSR and finally got my point across that the phone was broke as I have had it for a week now and the sig­nal strength meter has even twitched off of noth­ing, zero bars, nada, zippo. Of course the ware­house was closed, so it was too late to get a new phone shipped out to me. They are going to send it FedEx overnight on Mon­day and it was to be here next Tuesday.

The rea­son I say was is because tonight when we got back from the moun­tains, I had to set about a dozen clocks in var­i­ous rooms and to make them match as close as pos­si­ble I needed a cor­rectly set time­piece to carry around with me. Since nei­ther Donna nor I own a watch the only thing I could think of to use was the worth­less cell phone. After sync­ing the time on the phone to the time on the PC, off I went. Some­where about mid job I noticed some­thing strange on the phone dis­play, bars on the left side indi­cat­ing that I was get­ting a sig­nal to the phone! I dialed it’s num­ber from the home phone and it rang. I couldn’t answer it as the CSR had emp­tied the min­utes in prepa­ra­tion for adding them back to the new phone when it got here.

I called the Trac­fone cus­tomer ser­vice num­ber and after a short wait I was hooked up with my min­utes and held in my hand a work­ing cell phone (a week late.) Now there are only two ques­tions remain­ing: 1) Will I get a phone via FedEx on Tues­day? and 2) How long will this phone work?