Yeah, so my bedroom is a mess and I went into the hospital (last December) [These two things were not directly related, by the way]. I come back home, toss my bags and crap liberally around the place, and proceed to feel crappy until I dont feel crappy any more (mostly). When I stop feeling crappy, I go looking for my verizon jetpack cuz, like, I just might want to go work in the woods or in my car in a parking lot or ally maybe..... But, cuz my bedrooms a mess, I cant find that little bugger.... for a long time...though I did look. Then, last week, I found it! But when I went to fire it up, it wouldnt connect. Bummer.... So, yesterday, Steve and I stopped by the Verizon store to have them do their thing... I assumed I had left it dormant so long that it was de-authorized or similar and would need a re-something...or something. I go in with my iPad ready (for quick check of functionality before leaving store). We are greeted in the normal way for Verizon and we wait for my name to be called (which took way longer than is usual at my home store--their service really has dropped off lately--never found them excessively slow or lacking before now). Anyway, when my turn came, I got the fast talking girl-- no, literally, she spoke so fast that her very slight spanish accent with valley-girl tinges made every word just whiz by me. She finished her whiz and looked up at me expectantly... I looked at her blankly and then took a breath... Uhm, I didnt understand one word you just said. Could you please slow down?. So, she repeated everything she had said from the time we first walked in... sigh. This is looking like annoying is going to be the watchword here.... So, she finally starts trying to reset the pack. No luck. It is still doing the same thing it was earlier... device gets recognized but no connection is established. I fire up Safari... nothing loads. I instinctively pop open my Ookla Speedtest utility to ping a router... nothing. See? Its not connecting!. She looks skeptical and asks to touch my iPad. I say Sure and her hand hovers around looking for setting. I shift my weight to my other foot... Steve does too. {Uh ohhhhh.... Does this girl know what she is doing?} Finally, she decides to replace the sim card and now the pack needs to upgrade every last molecule under the hood. We wait.... Finally, it finishes and we try it again. I pop open Speedtest and hit begin. Testing Ping I say to Steve (as if he cant see that for himself...). Then fast talking girl says. (OMG...) ..... Whats a Ping? Whats it doing? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Head explosion countdown initializing! 4...3...2... (Steves face plus mine) OMFG! Really? Verizon... Really? After a weird pregnant pause, Steve and I wave our hands around furiously in the air, spouting truncated syllables and meaningless drivel until we just .... slow... down....and...stop....breathlessly. Really? Upon leaving the store with the now working Jetpack, I look at Steve and he at me .... Whats a ping? I say. Really? I say. Wheres the car?
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 08:16:46 +0000
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