Burninating, Yuri, Cell Phones...

[foxgrrl]

1. Got zapped with lasers for the last time today. The anesthetic worked this time, so I wasn't screaming and crying in pain for several hours.
2. I'm thinking of going to this: http://www.worldspaceparty.com/schedule.php
3. My cell phone suddenly stopped working the other day &mdash That is to say, when I try to call out with it, I get a recorded message saying that this phone is not authorized for making phone calls. This is not the message you get when you don't pay your bill. At first I thought it was just a local outage, but it wasn't. So I go to the <phone carrier> franchise store, and I discover that my current phone has been deactivated because there's a new phone on my account, and the number was transfered to that. This was news to me; I didn't get a new phone. So they gave me the 800 number to call, cause they couldn't do anything there. The 800 number is a voice menu hell, which only accept voice input, no DTMF. If you ask for anything about Activation/Deactivation or other, it says it's forwarding you to a [human] representitive… but it's really a recording saying that, Your call could not be completed as dialed, please hang up and try you call again

Comments

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

Voice menu is a tool designed by Satan. Or Republicans. They never understand what you're saying. It's an especially awful and terrifying kind of Hell when you're sick and your voice just refuses to work, because no amount of pressing buttons and rasping commands into the receiver will make an actual human customer service drone pick up and talk to you. After a while, you just have to throw your phone at the wall and hope that you don't die because of some stupid voice menu thingie that won't work at the medical insurance company.

Just goes to show you should never call anyone with voice menus.

[kitten-goddess.livejournal.com]

How dare you insult Satan like that ;P

BTW, to bypass voice mail hell, hit zero. It often puts you through to the operator. I've tried it myself.

[svashtar.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a sekrit button. I'll have to try it sometime.

[foxgrrl]

Zero didn't work in this case. I hit it repeatedly, and the voice kept telling me there was no one to talk to.

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

Tone dialer?

DTMF generator?