Ever since S and K got to play with Lauren and Megan's cell phone cameras, they have been dying to own a cell phone. Not so much for the talking function but to take random pictures. In fact, when K sat on Santa's lap and was asked what she wanted for Christmas, she told him a cell phone. He asked her if she also wanted a doll or candy or anything else and she slowly shook her head....nope, she was placing all her bets on a cell phone.
I shared this with my sister Erin who just happened to have an old cell phone that would still charge up and take pictures but was not connected to any live cell phone service. In fact, she had transferred the number over to her new phone. She brought the old cell phone home at Christmas time and it dutifully made it's way into the "shared" stocking on the fireplace.
The girls were ecstatic about their cell phone from Santa. They both ran around taking pictures of the refrigerator, the microwave, all the poles in the house, their foot, and other random, blurry objects. They would punch buttons and when the pre-recorded message that "service is not available. Please call your local provider to reactivate service" came over the voice lines, they were sure their phone was for real.
Yes, all was well in Merry Mobile Phone Land until S decided to pretend to call 911. Turns out that even an inactive cell phone will still dial 911 as we soon learned when Erin got a call back on her new phone asking if she had called 911. She got the call as she was stepping foot back into our house and quickly was able to pinpoint the location of the culprits (i.e. the smoking gun, or should I say, cell phone was still in their hands). She quickly assured the sheriff's dispatch that the only emergency was letting two little squirrely girls know that they could not call 911 again unless instructed to do so by their mom or dad.
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