I packed up and moved to a hotel for 4 days because parts of my house were barely above 40 degrees the past several days. What was even worse was, in my rush to pack up, I forgot several things, like deodorant, tooth brush and tooth paste, a comb, a charging cord for my Kindle that died on my second day there (I came to really appreciate my DVR even more after watching TV with commercials for four days) and most importantly of all, my billfold. As it often does when I'm at home, it fell out of my back pocket and was on the bedroom floor. But I didn't know this at the time, and I was hoping/pleading with whatever higher power you believe in that I hadn't lost it somewhere else. So the next day, I braved the 6-8 inches of snow that had fallen to go back to the house to retrieve this stuff, but when I went to unlock my door, I couldn't find my house keys. I suspect I dropped them in the snow in my rush to leave, so I was unable to retrieve anything. Luckily, I had prepaid at the hotel with my debit card and I chose a hotel with a restaurant and could charge meals to the room, so that was not a problem, but being without all that other stuff definitely was.
My landlord was able to enter my house through a side door and left it unlocked for me. Unfortunately, while he was here, he must have shut the water off to the kitchen sink, because now my pipes are frozen. I'd left it on a slow drip. Ironically, the pipes in the bathroom are fine and they are farther away from any heat source in my house than the kitchen.
So I was able to get back in the house on my third day at the hotel and retrieve my billfold, which is a good thing, because on top of all this, my phone decided to die on me. So I spent literally all afternoon from 1-5 yesterday at Walmart trying to get a new phone. Getting the phone was the easy part. The Walmart employee trying to get the Pakistani person on the phone to switch my new phone to my old number and account was the problem. They kept saying it needed time to reset and to tell the customer to go home and call them back in 4 hours. They couldn't seem to understand that I didn't have a working phone to be able to do that. I'd never had this kind of problem getting a new phone before. Finally, they gave up, hung up on Walmart employee and she told me to come back today at 3, when she begins her shift, and we'd start all over, but in the meantime, i had to charge up the phone because it was dying. So I get back to the hotel, plug in the new phone, and, on a whim, decided to try to use it to text my daughter. IT WORKED! It was giving the Walmart employee an "unknown network" response or something like that, when she tried to call her own store.
So it's been a really rough week for me of little to no internet because I only have a desktop computer (I hate laptops) and smart phones are just too small (for me) to do much on the internet and I didn't even mention the fire alarms that went off three times in the hotel and that the water had to be shut off for 4 hours to fix a frozen pipe that had busted.
My landlord was able to enter my house through a side door and left it unlocked for me. Unfortunately, while he was here, he must have shut the water off to the kitchen sink, because now my pipes are frozen. I'd left it on a slow drip. Ironically, the pipes in the bathroom are fine and they are farther away from any heat source in my house than the kitchen.
So I was able to get back in the house on my third day at the hotel and retrieve my billfold, which is a good thing, because on top of all this, my phone decided to die on me. So I spent literally all afternoon from 1-5 yesterday at Walmart trying to get a new phone. Getting the phone was the easy part. The Walmart employee trying to get the Pakistani person on the phone to switch my new phone to my old number and account was the problem. They kept saying it needed time to reset and to tell the customer to go home and call them back in 4 hours. They couldn't seem to understand that I didn't have a working phone to be able to do that. I'd never had this kind of problem getting a new phone before. Finally, they gave up, hung up on Walmart employee and she told me to come back today at 3, when she begins her shift, and we'd start all over, but in the meantime, i had to charge up the phone because it was dying. So I get back to the hotel, plug in the new phone, and, on a whim, decided to try to use it to text my daughter. IT WORKED! It was giving the Walmart employee an "unknown network" response or something like that, when she tried to call her own store.
So it's been a really rough week for me of little to no internet because I only have a desktop computer (I hate laptops) and smart phones are just too small (for me) to do much on the internet and I didn't even mention the fire alarms that went off three times in the hotel and that the water had to be shut off for 4 hours to fix a frozen pipe that had busted.
