Stupid brainweasels.
Sep. 20th, 2013 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eleanorjaneI had resigned myself to having to wait until November to upgrade my phone, because that's when my contract is up. Today I got an email from Virgin Mobile saying I was eligible to ugprade now to an iPhone 5s. (Which is, specifically, the phone I wanted.) Yay!
Except they were out of stock online. Boo. And so was their phone customer sales team. Boo. I could upgrade in store, they told me. I called the shop in the local shopping centre and they had one 64GB one left! Yay! I took a cab.
It was still there when I got to the store! Yay!
Except they require photo ID, and:
My drivers' license is looong expired.
My Australian passport is expired.
My British passport is not expired! But because I am Australian, it doesn't have a visa in it (of course), so I can't actually prove that I am entitled to live in Australia for the duration of the new phone contract.
So no new iPhone for me. :( (And it's going to be a right royal pain in the ass to resolve the lack-of-acceptable-ID issue, too.)
This threw me into a flat spin of depression - a) the crushing of my hopes and excitement about a new cool thing, b) the wasted thirty bucks on cab fares and negative spoons of dealing with the (utterly horrible) shopping centre for nought, and c) the proof that I am a total failure as a functional adult who can't even prove she exists or has a right to live here.
So yeah. I'm not coping well with all that. Stupid to be upset over it, but depression *is* stupid. And it smells bad. And is mean.
TL;DR version: sadface. Also, no new phone. Hmph.
Except they were out of stock online. Boo. And so was their phone customer sales team. Boo. I could upgrade in store, they told me. I called the shop in the local shopping centre and they had one 64GB one left! Yay! I took a cab.
It was still there when I got to the store! Yay!
Except they require photo ID, and:
My drivers' license is looong expired.
My Australian passport is expired.
My British passport is not expired! But because I am Australian, it doesn't have a visa in it (of course), so I can't actually prove that I am entitled to live in Australia for the duration of the new phone contract.
So no new iPhone for me. :( (And it's going to be a right royal pain in the ass to resolve the lack-of-acceptable-ID issue, too.)
This threw me into a flat spin of depression - a) the crushing of my hopes and excitement about a new cool thing, b) the wasted thirty bucks on cab fares and negative spoons of dealing with the (utterly horrible) shopping centre for nought, and c) the proof that I am a total failure as a functional adult who can't even prove she exists or has a right to live here.
So yeah. I'm not coping well with all that. Stupid to be upset over it, but depression *is* stupid. And it smells bad. And is mean.
TL;DR version: sadface. Also, no new phone. Hmph.
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Date: 2013-09-20 07:18 am (UTC)It smells so bad. Smelly old meany, depression.
I hope you get your phone eventually.
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Date: 2013-09-20 02:32 pm (UTC)It's not really the phone, per se, it was the feeling that I had failed due to my own lacking, not due to bad luck. The bf took me out on a nice date tonight though, so that made me feel a lot better :)
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