Phone Shopping...

To help set the scenario, let us start off with the current phone situation. My mom and I have the same phones which are Motorola flip phones that have silver on them. Throughout the previous two years they were dropped a few times, receiving minor scratches across the front. Then one day I dropped my phone by accident and from then on the battery didn't hold a charge. I mean, I would charge the thing for a day solid and then take it off and it only last about two days.

At this point my mom took my battery and gave me hers. It lasted a few months until it currently started acting up. Now when someone calls her, she answers and then the phone automatically hangs up. Therefore she answers hangs up and calls the person back every time.

Luckily, our contract with our phone service is expired and we are eligible to get new phones. We walked into the store and mom immediately thought that all the phones were masculine with only a pink razor, which she doesn't like. I had looked ahead online and found a phone that I liked, a Sony Ericson W580i. I found that it came in pink and showed mom. She loved it and of course when we ask at the store, it only comes in two colors...not pink.

She then saw the iphone and really liked it. I told her that by the time it was all over, it would cost her $2,000. She didn't care, she really wanted it. Just then mom said "I like B.M.W.'s, but I'm on the Volkswagen budget."

We walk out of the store and go home, looking online and find out that the only place that the pink W580i is offered in Taiwan. So she would have to pay about $300 and then shipping fees.

So now she is looking for another phone that is offered by our carrier. After all, if she likes B.M.W.'s and is on a Volkswagen budget, she can't pay $400 for a phone with a college bound Aggie.