I hate telstra robots. Don't even get me started on the optus robots.

So.
Christmas was lovely.
Particularly becuase it meant I got my new phone. Whichis good. Because my old phone was a brick. A blue brick, but a brick just the same.
I was an optus person.
This was bad. Nearly everyone I know is on telstra so everything is more expensive for us. Well, was.
Anyway.
So I get a telstra SIM card.
This was good.
Setting it up was most traumatising.
Apparantly the optus port was closed that day (whatever THAT means) so my phone should've been working at around midday the next day.
At two in the afternoon I was getting peeved becuase all my phone would do when I put in the telstra SIM was tell me it was invalid.
WHY DO THEY THINK I UNDERSTAND THIS?!??!?
I really don't.
So, after consulting the telstra people, it turns out that my phone was locked to optus (HOW was I supposed to know this? HOW?).
So I call optus.
And get the crappy hold music.
Followed by this robot voice sighing (yes, SIGHING)
"Welcome to optus. Can you please tell me, in a few words, why you are calling?"
So I reply
"Unlocking handset" (pretty much what the optus shop people had told me)
Robot woman: "So, that is a call about your PIN number, is that correct?"
Me: "no" (underbreath "stupid moron")
RW: "I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood, can you please tell me, in a few words, why you are calling?"
It continued like that for a while until I just said
"MO-BILE"
and somehow managed to get through to the next stage where the robot woman told me
"There is a delay at the moment. We expect to answer your call within the next 20 minutes"
Me: "oh joy"

So I was stuck with MORE crappy hold music until THEY HUNG UP ON ME!
What kind of IDIOT phone service would hang up on a customer?
So I did THE WHOLE process again and FINALLY someone picked up.
Someone who spoke REALLY fast. With a REALLY thick accent.
So that was difficult.
I kept having to ask the poor guy to speak slower.
So eventually he unlocked my handset. Which didnt actually DO anything.
Well, I had to do some other stuff that I don't really understand but now... finally... after TWO DAYS of tough effort... MY PHONE WORKS!!
=)
This makes me happy.

And now I don't have to talk to anymore morons!
YAY!

Well.... yeah. That's about all my excitment/trauma over the last few days.
I'm going to Emmy's tomorrow!
YAY!
But seeing as Ems the only person who's going to read this, there was no point it writing it. Actually, there was no point in writing any of this post, as Emma already knows the story.
Meh!
Like THAT'S ever stopped me talking about random-ness.