Rant: No Emergency Phones

No one should step in the way of Palmer when he is pissed about getting an emergency phone for the road. They will feel the wrath which is KALIMA! (this is in fact a nod to the day of Inidiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when the guy yells out KALIMA! and then rips a guy’s heart of his chest. I don’t even know if Chuck Norris could hold back his roundhouse kick to achieve such a feat.)

Here I am thinking that in this world of nice, civil society who want to help out each other, that I can switch to an emergency pay as you go plan so I can leave the cell phone in the car and just use it if there’s an emergency (like running late getting to Vero!).

But alas, no, the cell phone companies are big money mongers. As far as I can tell, you CAN get a prepaid card with ‘x’ amount of minutes on it for emergencies…but the card expires after 60 days of purchase! So if I don’t use them, voila, they are gone! And if I don’t use them, voila, I have to buy another freaking card!

What a scam. $25 every sixty days for an emergency phone. One may think, “Hey Palmer, this isn’t a bad deal when you think about it.”

I suppose if you think about what you would pay in an emergency for a phone, then no, $12.50 a month ain’t that big of a deal. But still…are there no TRUE emergency cell phones out there?

I’m calling out to you, my loyal readers to point me to a true emergency phone. That, in the need of an emergency, I don’t really care if it costs me $5 a minute…as long as I don’t have to pay anything until I use it.

This is your mission. Accept it.

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