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My New Phone
What a headache!
I like to hang on to things. I bought a new car last year but still mostly drive the old one, 21 years old to be precise. I have an old tube TV. I think it’s twelve years old now, and I have to turn up the brightness all the way to see the picture. It works for me, and I hardly watch TV anyway.
My 35-year-old house still has the original HVAC system. It just has the motor, capacitor, return, and compressor. It works like a charm.
I bought my new laptop when the old one literally fell apart. I took it to an independent store to copy the hard drive (which I had neglected to back up). The guy took one look at my device and asked if I had tossed the laptop out of the window.
Well, so sometimes I do have to update. My phone just died, turned all dark — and that was it. It had replaced my old flip phone, and now, after nine years, my Samsung S7 decided to quit on me.
I had to get a new phone. It took me three hours to get my favorite widgets back on my home screen. The one thing I couldn’t figure out was the texting app. There are dozens of different ones, and they all come with pesky ads.
Since the old phone could not be turned on, I lost all of my contacts and pictures.
