Just too smart....

I like to pretend that I am too smart to be concerned about keeping up with the small things....you know things like...my cell phone, keys, or glasses. My mind just has bigger things to think about....right?

Actually, I don't know what my issue is. I have been able to hold on to my cell phone for several years now....and when I was in Africa for a few weeks....I lost my American Cell phone. I kept up with my glasses until the day I left and they fell out of my bag somewhere... and keys....well, I didn't loose them, but I did leave my American keys in Africa. Geez!

So all of this meant that as soon as I got back in the US my first several hours were spent trying to get a my cell phone activated. That sounds easy right? Let me just tell you how adventurous it really was:

My plane landed at 6 am (after 18 hours of flying) at Dulles Airport. By 7:30am I had cleared customs with my luggage, changed into warmer clothes and bought a one way ticket on a shuttle bus to the metro. By 8:10 I was getting on the metro bound for the Pentagon and by 8:30am I worked my way (through security) into the Pentagon and was waiting for my sister-in-law to come get me so I could put my luggage in her car.

I then thought I would simply go to the mall and visit a Cingular store, get a SIM card and charger. Oh, how wrong I was....

I went to the mall via the metro and was told that I need to go to a bigger store about 5 miles away. The only way I could get there via the BUS.

Do you know how hard it is to find the right bus to take? It is VERY difficult!!! So, it took me about an hour to find the right bus...I got to the Cingular Store by about 12:30pm and getting the SIM card was EASY.

The only problem was that Cingular does not stock the charger to the GO phones that they sell. So they told me to go to Best Buy....Best Buy told me to go to Cingular and then the next Cingular Store told me to go to Best Buy.....finally I went to Radio Shack.

There I found that I finally was at the right place. I had to actually buy an entire GO phone to get things to work. So by 3pm I finally had a phone working....

What an adventure!