Friday, August 05, 2005

O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!

Someone must have slipped me some Felix Felicis.

My cell phone died a few days ago. Not sure how much a new battery would cost, I delayed replacing it. Today at the Verizon Wireless store, I handed over my phone and told my story. They handed the phone back to me and gave me a battery free of charge. Turns out, it's still under warranty. Woo-Hoo!

On my return home, I passed a couple of young men in the parking lot, filling a PODS unit with goodies. I'd had my suspicions about the unit's tell-tale location for days, but today my suspicions were confirmed. Mr. Jiggy-With-It downstairs is moving out! Woo-Hoo!

These things come in threes and the day isn't over yet. But after those two, I'm good. Really. I'm chortling in my joy.

* For the benefit of the woefully uninitiated, Felix Felicis is, in the world of Harry Potter, liquid luck. Derived from Latin: fruitful, favorable, fortunate, happy, or lucky.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am SOOO pleased they are moving... and hope the management is judicious about who they move in there. Just your luck- silence just in time for YOU to return to TN.

Anonymous said...

Bloody he**. I thought I'd done well. After checking the Verizon web site and finding a new battery for my phone was listed at $40, I quickly turned the search to E-bay. $3.95 for a NEW battery still in original packaging. . and only an additional $3 for shipping. So for weeks I'd been bragging about my deal-finding abilities. . . until now. Now some west coast chic has to spoil my glory by announcing that she got one FOR FREE!! Coming from a guy who has never owned a car less than 10 years old, the word "warranty" never existed in my vocabulary. I've almost never owned anything before that had one of those, so it never even occurred to me to see if my battery was covered by that. . .

Signed
Your fastidiously frugal faraway friend.