Thursday, September 29, 2005

I Should Write Their Ads

So I'm walking through the Holyoke, MA, mall this morning, and I've got my cellphone clipped to my belt like a dork (I don't have enough pockets until jacket season). I walk past the T-Mobile kiosk and the guy behind the counter beckons me over and asks, "What cellphone service do you use?"
"Verizon Wireless," I reply.
"How much are you paying a month?" he asks.
"Too much," I reply.
"Did you know that you can save a lot if you switch to T-Mobile?" he says.
"Actually," I say, "I can save a lot more by switching to Skype and Voice Over Internet Protocol and avoid cellular entirely." (I don't add that the quality is a whole lot better, too.)
He seemed quite disappointed.

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