On soapboxes and walkie talkies

I have had a run of bad luck when it comes to cellphones.

My old cellphone was a thing of beauty - it not only gave me lost calls, but also delayed voice messages, "answered" missed calls, delayed missed calls - you name it, it gave it. To make matters worse, the wireless network wasn't exactly what you'd call the best in the world.

Oh did I mention that the phone also looked a little weird? One of my friends used to call it a soapbox, because he claimed that it looked like one. One day the situation got so bad that it actually started behaving more like a soapbox than a cellphone. That's when I decided to get rid of it.

Of course it also didn't help that I had dropped the phone approximately 500 times.

But one truly beautiful thing about the phone was that everytime I dropped it, the frame, the keyboard, and the circuit board underneath - everything would come off. Ok - that's not the beautiful thing that I set out to describe but what follows is. If anyone looked at the phone in this dissembled state, they would think - "No way can that thing work again!"

But it always did. I could always put the parts back in place, and the phone would turn on without any fuss. Almost another kind of self-assembly process.

My current cellphone isn't a technological marvel either. I had asked for a speaker phone, but I didn't quite expect what I got in the bargain. They had said in the phone description that the phone has a "powerful" speaker, but then that does not mean they hand me a walkie-talkie!

Coz that's what my phone looks like. A walkie talkie with a speaker so huge and powerful that it could probably pass off as a surround-sound speaker for a reasonably sized room.

Anyway Iam stuck with this one for a while. Until I get the next thing of beauty.