You won't believe what has
been happening around me since morning.
I got up to compile the
#FreebiesMonday contest of yesterday and just half way through, I ran out of
megabyte on the Etisalat sim that I use.
I inserted the MTN sim
that I have some megabytes and lo and behold there was no service on that one,
try as much as I could, it would not connect.
So I had to wait out the
early hours of the morning before heading out earlier than usual to get some
Etisalat recharge cards.
While waiting for the
office to be opened (I was there before my Staff (you can imagine)), I called a
young friend of mine who I had been on his neck since one week now to help do
something that he is very good at, (for the past one week, I had called him
more than 10 times, some he picked and some he did not pick, finally on Friday
he told me that he was going to do the stuff on Sunday and send it across to me
by Monday); Sunday when I called he said he was on the stuff and would be done
with it in an hour's time, I waited for three hours before calling him back and
he did not pick, when he eventually picked after like 5 calls he said he would
call me back, he never did.
All through Monday, I
called severally he did not pick and he did not fast forward what he told me he
was almost done with the previous day, he did not call back neither did he send
an sms.
So when I called this
morning I was expecting to hear that the stuff was on its way to me but you
would not believe what the young man told me after I pressurized him to speak
to me (and he even picked the call at the 3rd call) here's what he said "I
cannot combine doing what you asked me to do for you with what I am presently
doing" - for a moment I thought I did not hear him clearly and so I asked
him to repeat what he said and he did repeat it and I was dumb for some few
seconds, infact if there was a bomb explosion near by, I would have been shell
shocked.
That response completely
pissed me off and I asked him why he had not told me all this while that I have
been calling and disturbing him, why did he have to give me a false hope when
he knew that he would not do what I asked him to do for me and he is SUPPOSED
to be a Young FRIEND of mine???
Talk about friends
So when eventually I had
access to recharge card, I was about to remove the sim card from the modem and because
perchance I was in such a hurry that the card cut into two as I tried bringing
it.
I invited my Consultant to
fix it and the man used super glue to hold the sim card together.
Of course it held together
nicely tightly but when I inserted it into the phone to load the recharge card,
the phone said there was no sim card and try as much as we could, it just was
not working out (meanwhile MTN simply refused to connect) and we tried Glo, oh
dear, it was even the worst.
Finally we went to the
nearby Etisalat Experience Centre and lo and behold the young man there said
that the sim card was damaged beyond repairs and that I have to get a new one.
So I ended up buying
another Etisalat sim card, got registered and verified and back to the office,
recharged it and then it was working and that made it possible for me to
complete my morning task this afternoon while commencing today's task just about
now.
Some days can be so
irritating and frustrating -- today was one of such days for me.
But I'm already over it
and surging on for what can be done with the remainder of the day
And as for those who call
themselves friends, it is not compulsory that you agree to do something when
you know you cannot do it or that you would not have the time to do it.
Better to be plainly
truthful than to be economical with the truth; it is a trust killer.
Deceit kills a
relationship!!!!!!
Dr. Jerry - the First: JP
#DrJTF
That's why I don't like people promising me if they disappoint me I will be down for a moment
ReplyDeleteThough am trying to adapt
Oh for sure Oyekola
ReplyDeleteI also dislike being disappointed, it has a way of messing up my day
but I have since learnt to contain it any ways
people should learn to keep to their words
ReplyDeletepeople should learn to keep to their words
ReplyDeletepeople should learn to keep to their words
ReplyDeleteThe sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
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