What I am about to say might sound like bragging, but believe me, I’m not. I am just ecstatic. A cellular phone dealer has opened up a shop right down the street from my apartment. Oh, what the hell? I am bragging!
I’m not going to name names, but let’s just say that this cellular phone dealer is one of the big ones. Oh, what the hell again? I can’t contain myself. It’s Sprint PCS!
The Sprint PCS store could not have opened at a more opportune time for yours truly. Why is that? Well, I think you’ll find this very interesting and pertinent to your life: I had been strongly considering purchasing a hands-free kit.
The problem: Before the arrival of the Sprint PCS store, the nearest cellular phone dealer was two whole blocks away–and across a busy intersection. My wife and I had agonized over my game plan for making the journey to the store: When would traffic be lightest during store hours? Should I wear long underwear? Should I draw up a will beforehand?
We eventually put an end to my silly pipe dream, deciding there was too much risk and effort involved just to buy a hands-free kit (known in English as a headset). Meanwhile, I was still taking full advantage of my unlimited night and weekend minutes, and my brain cancer was really starting to smart.
Then, I noticed some peculiar activity going on in the storefront at the nearby street corner. One day, it was just a couple of vague signs on the windows advertising “PCS Vision” and “Free and Clear Nationwide.” But the next day, I had a better idea of what was up when I saw Catherine Zeta-Jones and Joan Cusack outside bitching about the place.
And a couple of weeks after that, the Sprint PCS store opened, oddly without much fanfare. The great news about this new store is that not only does it offer unbelievable rates on a marvelous array of nationwide packages, but it’s also got accessories as far as the eye can see–if the eye’s owner doesn’t put his glasses on.
I did indeed purchase for myself one Body Glove-brand “Earglove” hands-free kit, after the saleswoman assuredly said, “I am not going to lie to you. No customer has had anything bad to say about this hands-free kit.” (It’s so rare and refreshing to find a saleswoman who doesn’t tell lies about how customers hate her store’s products.)
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I’ll likely return to the store soon for a phone cover, or maybe even a picture phone. But, ultimately, I’m hoping that this place turns into more than just a shop and becomes a hangout for folks in the neighborhood, or at least for Sprint PCS customers.
We desperately need a new place to congregate and shoot the breeze about the issues of the day. In other words, the Sprint PCS store could be for my neighborhood what a barbershop is for many communities. And then there could be a movie based on the neighborhood called “Cellular Phone Shop” about how a cruel big-businessman wants to drive our poor, mom-and-pop Sprint store out of business so he can put in a new store that doesn’t offer its customers such sensational family plans.
But I am getting ahead of myself. The challenge now is to persuade other cellular phone companies to set up retail outlets that can coexist with the Sprint PCS store and give additional charm and flavor to my neighborhood. Fortunately, a couple of restaurants down the street from me have recently shut their doors, opening up space.
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