Man, the end of summer sneaks up on everyone, doesn’t it? Anyway.

So, Dave washed his cell phone a week or so ago, basically on the heels of the overpriced Disney subscription, so it’s been an expensive summer, you know? Today, I finally called unicel to see what the cheapest replacement phone would be, knowingwe’d have to pay full price since we didn’t have insurance and the contract was only a few WEEKS old. Basically to replace his phone (a barebones Motorola) would have been 180 bucks. The cheapest one would have been 130, but the CNET reviews were basically like "the worst phone ever, wouldn’t even crap on this phone if you paid me." GRRREEAAT. Just fucking fabulous.

Again, I was annoyed. I went to the Unicel store tonight, still pissed, and walked in 10 minutes before closing to say "My husband hosed his phone, I need the cheapest full price option you have." And the guy pauses and says "well, wait… hold on." And starts digging around in his cupboard. He pulls out a box and looks at a post-it note, and says "Yeah, this guy asked me to hold it for him, but it’s been two weeks, so I can sell you this one for $80." Oh, hallelujah, an $80 solution. He flipped open the box, and it’s a freaking RAZR. Which, of course, is not like cutting edge cellular telephony these days, but it’s more of a phone than the one that got washed, more of a phone than either the 130 or 180 dollar options, and HELLO, 80 bucks. SOLD. He dropped in the SIM card, and I was on my way. WhenI got home, though, I told Dave that he can’t make fun of my sister for at least 6 months, since he just had his own moment of KateKarma.