Travails of buying a phone

Graham Bells invention of the Electrical speech machine enhanced communication among people across boundaries, and the latest variation of mobile phones has changed the meaning of "being in touch" with people crooning into the sleek hand-pieces almost 24*7. However, there are some unfortunate "paapi" ppl in this world(pointing fingers at myself) for who its impossible to be an owner of one such communication marvel.

When I landed here, I felt it was unnecessary to buy a mobile since the house I stayed in already provided a landline ... and morevoer I was paying extra monie for the rent, so it was a gud idea(or i thought so) to postpone buying of phone to the next semester. And there begins my never-ending saga of my unsuccessful attempts at getting hold of one :(

Attempt 1:
At the mall -
Alok, lil, GG and myself walk into the mobile stall .... the guys are more interested in the blondes attending to us at the counter than the original purpose we were there for . One blonde especially impressed with Aloks name heaps praises and looks and then hands out a form to be filled. While Alok and I filled them out, (the former much slowly cause he couldnt decide on whether he should look at the paper or the gal for longer), the other 2 had all the time to enlighten the damsels about the pronounciations of our names. Well, bak to the forms...... the mobile company was not as sweet and approachable as the girls there and hence decided we were not eligible to be given the plan we had opted for...the damn credit history, which meant we had to shell out extra monie for one. And me being the poor one tat i am decided against it :( so tat was the end of attempt 1.

Attempt 2:
Browsing through all websites looking for free handsets ..... but alas all required a driving license to be filled out on the e-forms. It still hasnt made sense to me as to why only people with a driving license are allowed to buy a mobile. Does it mean people who cant turn the steering wheel cant talk on the phone??? ... how bizzare can this logic get ...... how i wish to get back to my land where there are more pragmatic thinkers!!! In short it was end of another futile attempt ... attempt 2 to be precise.

Attempt 3:
Lil with his network of friends digged out a website which did not require a driving license to be given...... sounded like gud news to me. I would at last possess the mobile no matter how ugly or basic it was .... yuppie ..... HOWEVER, as luck would have it, my application got rejected due to bad credit history.....the same silly reason again....and there ended attempt 3.

Attempt 4:
I had almost given up hopes of getting a phone.... and ... on one fine day.... vini tells me bout another colleague of hers who had a cool phone to give away to someone if required...... and me was the only one left without one in this place .... so i had to be the rigthful owner of that one ....
all seemed to be goin fine and i almost had the phone couple of days bak . I was supposed to meet the dealer at home when he would hand over the phone to me and thus ending the long saga of my fight with fate. But who was I fooling here...... the colleague came home sans dealer only to tell me tat they had run out of stock and I had to wait for another few days for one :(((((
End of attempt 4!!!

I guess after a few more days I could write a continuation blog ..... with more futile attempts ... sigh :(