My Friday began with a trip to the Verizon store in Belvedere SC, just 18 miles from my home.
I finally gave up on my iPhone 11 Pro. While it still functions in most ways, one important way was in its function of making and receiving telephone calls. I was no longer able to receive calls, all incoming calls immediately going into my voice mail. That is very frustrating. And even more frustrating was making calls that wouldn't ring but would immediately go into someone else's voice mail.
I did not have any blocked calls, and all the online (so-called) "help" for that situation was of no use.
So...off the Verizon store in Belvedere where I had once taken my Aunt Doris when she needed a phone. It was a toss-up between that store and one in Aiken SC where I bought my iPhone 11. That store, however, is on a busy road on the other side of Aiken and was abut 27 miles away. I opted for Belvedere and arrived at the store by 9:55 a.m.
There were four people ahead of me, three customers being attended to and only two Verizon employees. One told me I would be helped shortly.
In the intervening 35 minutes, I learned that the people ahead of me had been waiting as much as a half hour BEFORE I arrived. I left the store, PO'd, of course, at 11:10 a.m.
Discouraged, I was, but I had other fish to fry. I returned home, visited the post office, went to a florist to pick up the urn for my parents' grave (red and white roses), drove to the cemetery to place the flowers and have a chat with their spirits, then drove to the recycling center to drop off a ton of cardboard, and continued my adventures.
I went to Edgefield to the Pool Room and bought a gift certificate for my cousin Butch's Christmas present (the Pool Room is where folks buy the best hamburgers and hot dogs in the area), and then went to McDonald's for a McRib, some fries and a Dr. Pepper.
