My mom was traveling, at a conference I think, and lost the charger for her phone. She and my step dad were discussing options for new phones for her. They are under tmobile (same as me) and apparently right now there is a buy one get one free deal going on. My step dad suggested my mom get a phone and give me the free one. The catch is that in order to get the free phone you've got to sign up for a 2 year contract and my mom detests contracts. I said I wouldn't mind taking the contract if I got a free phone out of it.
Turns out I'm already past the 2 year mark on my current contract which means I have the perfect leverage point according to my step dad. He said he'll take me to a tmobile store soon and talk them into giving me any phone I want for free, idk. Anyway, I looked around and if I can get a free phone I'm going for the myTouch with 4G. But I'm not going to buy a data plan until I actually have a job to pay for it. If I've figured everything out right, I'll be able to get unlimited messaging and unlimited data (when I can afford it eventually) for less than an iPhone plan would cost and I'd get a hell of a lot less on iPhone.
Mom made an interesting remark on the whole thing: that getting a fancy new phone is part of the growing process, that it is part of moving into this new 'Brenda-hood' that is going to be my life and selfhood after college. It's interesting that a small piece of technology can mean so much in our culture but it really does. How do you place that much meaning in an inanimate object such as a phone? Silly.
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