Dave’s cell phone finally crapped out, not allowing anyone on the other end to hear what he was saying. It’s several years old, and the antenna had been broken, the front display all weird and psychedelic, and it was not allowing him to text message. So we headed out to the store to go and find him a nice, cheap replacement. Because he doesn’t really browse the internet, he doesn’t take pictures, he has an iPod, so he doesn’t really need a lot of bells and whistles. The main requirement was that it was small enough that he could use it for work and that he could do text messaging because I’m tired of getting his voicemail message when he’s in a part of the hospital with no signal.

So we were at the store and debating on a couple simple flip phones that were similar to the one he already has. I was curious about what other phones are out now, and thinking that it’s about time that I consider changing my phone, when I came across this little beauty, the LG Lotus:

I loved it as soon as I saw it. A voice in my head screamed, “YOU WILL BE MINE! YOU MUST BE MINE!”. It was so pretty and purple, with a QWERTY keyboard and a lovely, bright display screen. I touched it, to make sure it wasn’t a dream. I stood there testing out my texting skills, seeing what the internet looked like on it, pretending like it was mine already. Then Dave came by, looked at it, and said, “Ohh, that’s cool! I think that would be perfect for me!” That voice inside me growled, like a lioness guarding her cubs, “Don’t touch her! She’s MINE! MINE, I SAY!” but I managed to say, “Oh, really? Howabout the other phones?”

“This one is a lot thinner, and it’s got a keyboard that will be easier to text with. It’s so light, too!”

Hmm. I replied, “But it’s purple. With flowers.”

“Well, they probably have it in other colors, don’t you think?” he said.

“I don’t know…it might just be in purple.” I said.

So Dave asked the sales guy if it came in any other colors, and was told that it comes in black. “I’ll take that one!” Dave said…

“The black one doesn’t have flowers, does it?” I asked, because really, they could have had a black version with flowers. Dave and the sales guy thought my question was laughable. Really, they laughed out loud.

So Dave bought my dream phone. But my heart will go on - I’m going back there tomorrow to get the sweet purple version. I just need to get all my old texts and stuff off my current phone.

Ahh, my current phone…My precious little MotoQ. He’s been a great little guy. He’ll probably be going to my mother-in-law (unless one of you guys has Sprint and wants to buy him off me)

Mmmm….I can’t wait til I get my new phone!

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