Ivan the Butcher
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In the long running thread on Meme's, there is one about: It dosesn't matter how tough you think you are: When a 2 year old hand you a toy phone, YOU ANSWER IT!
So yesterday our youngest granddaughter spent the evening with us. As she rummages through the Rubbermaid tub of toys, she finds a toy cell phone that has to be 30 to 35 years old. The amazing thing is it still worked, well it worked for about 10 minutes of button pushing, then went silent. So she walked up to me and handed me the phone, so I say Hello! That wasn't what she wanted! She wanted it to work! And work now.
Today I got out the toolbox with the jeweler's tools in it, and started exploratory surgery. It uses two hearing aide batteries, size AG13. I happen to have a several year old card of 30 assorted batteries and there are 4 of the needed AG13 batteries left. Using a tiny Phillips head screw driver and tiny needle nose plyers I got the old batteries out, and the replacements installed. Opened it up and got musical notes when I pushed the button!
Lately, I make $45 per hour with a minimum of two hours, I had $2 or $3 in the whole card of batteries. So we will call this a $95 service call! Since she is two years and two months old her ability to pay is not in US dollars, But it is in AH. Anne Hugs! The exchange rate is: 1 AH to about $1000. So I'm the one who got the bargain!
While I had the micro batteries and tools out, grandma has a combo ball point pen and flash light that needed three AG3 batteries. I got it running is short order, but at my exchange rates with her, she'll have it worked off it 2 or 3 weeks! You Go Grandma!
Ivan
So yesterday our youngest granddaughter spent the evening with us. As she rummages through the Rubbermaid tub of toys, she finds a toy cell phone that has to be 30 to 35 years old. The amazing thing is it still worked, well it worked for about 10 minutes of button pushing, then went silent. So she walked up to me and handed me the phone, so I say Hello! That wasn't what she wanted! She wanted it to work! And work now.
Today I got out the toolbox with the jeweler's tools in it, and started exploratory surgery. It uses two hearing aide batteries, size AG13. I happen to have a several year old card of 30 assorted batteries and there are 4 of the needed AG13 batteries left. Using a tiny Phillips head screw driver and tiny needle nose plyers I got the old batteries out, and the replacements installed. Opened it up and got musical notes when I pushed the button!
Lately, I make $45 per hour with a minimum of two hours, I had $2 or $3 in the whole card of batteries. So we will call this a $95 service call! Since she is two years and two months old her ability to pay is not in US dollars, But it is in AH. Anne Hugs! The exchange rate is: 1 AH to about $1000. So I'm the one who got the bargain!
While I had the micro batteries and tools out, grandma has a combo ball point pen and flash light that needed three AG3 batteries. I got it running is short order, but at my exchange rates with her, she'll have it worked off it 2 or 3 weeks! You Go Grandma!
Ivan
I got my first phone in 1992, a Motorola that looked, as I recall, like a WWII walkie-talkie. I still have the same number.
