How would you like your day to start? Fine, let us say it started well. How would you like it to end? You would wish like I do. How many times does that really happen? If you are very lucky often, but never always. I dare to say no one in the world ever had all days that were good. I am no exception. I had kind of a bad day today and more to come tomorrow. That too when I had almost a bad day - the day before yesterday.
The story goes like this. I reached Bangalore on 10th of May, 2010. Addicted to technology, I missed two things - phone and internet. Therefore, I bought a USB internet connect card and an Airtel Sim that very evening. It is 28th May today - 18 days since I've been here. On 26th May my internet suddenly died on me without any email or SMS notification. Why would they ask for these details if they do not want to use them? Huh. I enquired and found out that apparently my subscription to Internet ended that day, surprisingly at 9:00PM. I had to call it a day helplessly, when I was all charged to work on a project.
Coming to the recent incident - I am not a texting (SMSing) person but for some odd reason yesterday I paid a sum of Rs. 52 to get unlimited SMS service for a month. I texted everyone, even JD. This afternoon, suddenly my outbox was full of messages that were not sent. I was ok, as none of them were sent to my boss Dr. Narayanan. In the evening, I tried to call Deutsche Bank customer service to request them not cancel my account as they mentioned in their email today. To my dismay, I found out that outgoing calls from my number were blocked. I was not sure what was happening. I called Airtel customer care and, added insult to injury, they told me that not only my outgoing calls were blocked, my sim has also been recycled. When, out of curiosity, I asked what that meant I was told that I could no longer use this sim and will lose my balance of Rs. 100 + Rs. 52 spent on that stupid texting scheme. I felt like kicking my ass for sending SMS to JD. The representative also told me that the reason for this was that my documents were not submitted. How the hell is this possible? I did submit them, like twice. It wasn't ok the first time but then I submitted again and all went through quite well. I went (could not call right?) to the person who sold me that sim and was responsible to send my documents to concerned people. He sympathized for the balance. He said it doesn't work that way. You go to their (Airtel) office tomorrow and tell them your story. They will give you a duplicate sim which you will be able to use. I hope they do. I do not want to lose this number at any cost. Well, may be I can but "I will fight for my right". Hell yeah. If I was a big shot that line would have been printed in tomorrow's times paper somewhere. lol. A blog after a bad day is a great way to end it. Isn't it?
