Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2013

My Telenor Tech

My phone is now loaded and ready for voting tonight, thanks to Patrik, my tech guide at Telenor, a Swedish phone and tech company. I pulled out a two year old router and a five year old phone and set them on the counter. "Is there any hope to get these two working again?", I asked. With a few clicks of the keyboard and my handy EMV credit card, he brought them both back to life for me.

Patrik wanted to know what I planned to do with the cash I loaded on my SIM card and I was too happy to oblige his question. We talked about Melodifestivalen and me missing thirty one years of voting, for which I will catch up tonight. He said he didn't even know the contest was in town. I nearly dropped my jaw, but Patrik is not a fan of the contest. He follows Eurovision, but Mello is not his thing. Fair enough.

We chatted about the US as well. He's a fan of Miami while his wife prefers New York. Now, it was his turn to be surprised when I told him I had never been to either Miami or New York or even Los Angeles. Well, I have been all over Sweden. He still prefers the States. You always want what you don't already have, I suppose.