Surviving My Life

Reach Out And Touch Someone

Being that my snazzy Nextel cellphone (pictured left) has free incoming calls, I don't have a home phone. The phone on the left is my home phone.

Anyway, I recieved my cell phone bill a few weeks ago. A 78 page cell phone bill filled to the brim with 172 phonecalls to someone in Japan. The total cost? $2,178.00.

After picking myself up off the floor, re-attaching my jaw, and taking about a dozen ibuprofin, I decided to see what was going on.

I called Nextel, and the told me that I "have a friend in Japan." I quickly scanned my friends list in my brain and then promptly told her that I don't know a single person not currently in the Continental United States.

After much debating, seven days of phonecalls and arguments, and me getting a lawyer, we figured out what's going on.

Someone stole my SIM number - the part of the phone that identifies itself to the cell phone networks.

I had to turn my phone in so that they could track the guy or girl down. So, for a few weeks (as I was told) I won't have my phone. Not a bad thing considering that I don't really use it all that much.

However, I did a search on the web and found a new way to communicate.

Somthing called "Morse Code".

posted by Jeremiah @ 21:33