I upgraded my smartphone a month or so ago and since it’s a work phone and I didn’t have to pay for said upgrade, I decided not to mention anything to my wife. This isn’t a scandal and it isn’t a lie — it’s a strategic withholding of information. I was afraid she’d say she also wants a new phone.
Can you blame me? Her phone is finally paid for — a first in our family’s history. She’s been bopping along with her paid-in-full phone for six months. That’s money in the bank that we can wisely and strategically invest in things like pedicures.
But then the phone company (curse them) got involved. Out of nowhere, they texted my wife about a great deal on new phones and blah blah blah, she went from being happy with her phone to believing her phone is a piece of junk and she cannot go another day without a new one. It’s not about the camera or the phone’s performance or a need for more gigabits or gigabytes or whatever — it’s all about the fear of missing out and the phone companies (curse them) know it and prey upon it.
It worked. She was now committed to getting a new phone mostly because it’s new and also it comes in blue. There was no sense resisting or convincing or counter arguing that the current phone is still great.
By this stage, it was a done deal and all I could do was help find her a new phone with the best deal and best plan possible. That last line may be the funniest thing I’ve ever written. Have you shopped for a phone lately? It’.
