Not old news to Rich, apparently

Karen and I ate dinner before Rich came home from his cousins' house tonight, but we sat with him while he ate before shower time. As Karen fed him some quinoa mixed with beans and corn, Rich and I exchanged his toy phone (one of my old cell phones) in conversations here and there. Here was one such “phone call” that I answered and passed on to him.

ME: (on the "phone") Hello?...Yeah....I see....Well I don’t—...Yeah, I think that’s old news though....I don’t know....I guess, but he might not want to hear it....Okay, well you’re welcome to try.

I handed the phone to Rich and quietly said to him, “It’s for you.” He took the phone and put it to his ear.

RICH: Hello?...Yeah....Yeah....Oh?...That’s awesome!...Oh....Bye.

Karen and I laughed. It was one of those perfect moments we wish we had on video.

$1.27 of backward postage

I finally visited the post office to retrieve a package that has waited for me for about a week. It’s a new cell phone battery for my five year old phone. While most people today are trying to upgrade to smart phones and jazzy tech of all sorts, I have no interest in getting rid of a phone that keeps working and that doesn’t require a data plan. I am happy with phone calls and texting, the functions of a true phone. I’m certain one day I’ll have to upgrade to something, but for now all I need is a slightly longer lasting battery.

I don’t want to give any Amazon seller a bad review because I want good reviews myself and I know how valuable they are, but the person who sold me this battery didn’t put enough postage on the envelope and I ended up having to give around $1.27 to the postal worker for him to hand me what I already paid for. That seems really backward to me, so I need to say something about it to this seller.

...I just hate giving bad reviews.