Yesterday,
after a week off, I resumed my mobile phone calvario.
Having learnt it would cost me 25 euros to liberate my phone and keep
my number, I went back to Movistar(Telefónica) to see whether it'd
be quicker/easier just to get a new number and a new phone from them.
This was my 7th visit, including one when I couldn't wait more than
20 minutes and one when I foolishly poled up on a national holiday
and found them closed. There was no one in the place when I entered
but a young lady appeared when the phone rang.
Hola.
Buenos
días.
[3
minutes of shuffling papers and talking to someone on the phone]
Yes.
What can I do for you?
Is
Ana not here?
No.
She's on holiday.
OK.
I spoke to her about changing my phone to Movistar.
Which
package did you talk about? The X euros package or the Y euros
package?
Neither,
it was the Z euros package. But the problem was that I needed to
liberate my phone and this wasn't possible with Yoigo because
Movistar had cancelled my contract with them. So now I have to
liberate my phone myself and this will cost me 25 euros. So I was
thinking about just getting a new number and a new phone from you
instead and wonder what models you have for 25 euros.
[Consulting
a chart] Nothing. The cheapest phone we have is 40 euros.
But
it says here in your brochure that you have this model for 25 euros
with the Z package.
Maybe
but they don't send it to us anymore.
Right.
So I'll have to go and get this phone liberated and come back again.
Yes.
I
didn't, of course, get the phone liberated today, as the shop was
full and there were 4 people waiting outside it. But I live to fight
another day.
Talking
about shops . . . Walking through one of Pontevedra's galerías
yesterday, I came upon 3 jewellers shops additional to the 18 I
snapped before Xmas, all in a row. I can't swear to it but I suspect
they're new. As is the fruit-shop-cum-deli in the same galería.
Which I don't expect to survive. The jewellers - being possibly
laundering establishments - surely all will.
I
also went to my bank to ask about the strange message I'd got telling
me €0.00 had been charged to my credit card. The lovely Susana
advised me there was no evidence of this is my account, adding that
the bank now routinely sent these messages for internet purchases.
Which left me none the wiser really.
But
my morning was not a complete disaster; I managed to get the
batteries I needed for a torch,
Finally
. . . 3 millas a poniente y 2 millas a levante. '3 miles to
the setting and 2 miles to the rising'. Or '3 miles to the west and 2
to the east.'
Erratum:
Apologies, I missed at least one item from the list of Spanish
institutions yesterday. The Archbishops came in at only 21%, which
compares very badly with parish priests at 52%. One wonders why?
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