Darin Altway (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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shellphones2025-04-25 04:02 pm
forgeabettertomorrow) wrote in shellphones2025-04-25 04:02 pm
[VOICE] | un: hammertime
Type: Voice with Screencaps!
Sender ID: hammertime
To: Public
Subject: Shellphone Tech Support
Warnings: Stupidity
Okay, I admit I'm not the best when it comes to technology but I'm seriously running out of patience here! All I want to do is text someone! I was able to text them before but then I changed their name in my phone and now I can't AND IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT I CAN'T GET NEAR CERTAIN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THESE BRANDS BUT IF I CAN'T TEXT SOMEONE NOW EXPLODING PRISONS ARE GONNA BE THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES.
[Darin takes a deep, steadying breath. Normally, the person he would go to for tech support is Zelda. A person he cannot presently go anywhere near. So now he's the network's problem.]
Look. Okay. I just. I need someone to look at my contacts and tell me if I screwed something up. Because I don't know what I did. I just changed one contact. I change contact names all the time! All the time!
LOOK. HERE.
CAN ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO TEXT SOMEONE AND EVERY TEXT I [Sounds of fingers furiously tapping] TRY [More tapping] I GET [TAPPING]
... ... ...
"MESSAGE CANNOT BE DELIVERED" MY BRIGHT, BLUE ASS!!! WHO THE HELL MADE THESE PIECES OF—
[Darin is drowned out by the sound of wind because he did, in fact, throw his phone.]
[He will retrieve it shortly once it lands.]
Sender ID: hammertime
To: Public
Subject: Shellphone Tech Support
Warnings: Stupidity
Okay, I admit I'm not the best when it comes to technology but I'm seriously running out of patience here! All I want to do is text someone! I was able to text them before but then I changed their name in my phone and now I can't AND IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT I CAN'T GET NEAR CERTAIN PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THESE BRANDS BUT IF I CAN'T TEXT SOMEONE NOW EXPLODING PRISONS ARE GONNA BE THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES.
[Darin takes a deep, steadying breath. Normally, the person he would go to for tech support is Zelda. A person he cannot presently go anywhere near. So now he's the network's problem.]
Look. Okay. I just. I need someone to look at my contacts and tell me if I screwed something up. Because I don't know what I did. I just changed one contact. I change contact names all the time! All the time!
LOOK. HERE.
CAN ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO TEXT SOMEONE AND EVERY TEXT I [Sounds of fingers furiously tapping] TRY [More tapping] I GET [TAPPING]
... ... ...
"MESSAGE CANNOT BE DELIVERED" MY BRIGHT, BLUE ASS!!! WHO THE HELL MADE THESE PIECES OF—
[Darin is drowned out by the sound of wind because he did, in fact, throw his phone.]
[He will retrieve it shortly once it lands.]
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[Staring at you Darin... Before he just shakes his head.]
Perhaps you could choose a more flattering "funny" one next time.
[Though that's a tall order he bets—]
Regardless, have you figured out the solution to your problem? Unfortunately I'm not very savvy on this particular tech so I have no idea.
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No, and I feel like I have cabin fever. I've been able to busy myself throughout the month by working on The Heroine but I'm at my wits' end. Those damn armadas really crossed a line this time.
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[Just a low mutter under his breath BUT ANYWAY.]
What's The Heroine?