Actually, I won't see you soon.

When Hugo the landlord had coffee with us on Tuesday, I told him about my phone problem.  If you weren't aware, my phone just stopped working last week and told me that I was out of credit.  I thought I bought a month's worth so this didn't make any sense, but I really really really hate the phone store so I didn't want to go back in there.

Hugo says he has the Free (it's a brand) plan for 2 euros a month.  That's what most of the international students have and it sounds really reasonable.

So on Wednesday I set out to find out what happened to my phone and get a new plan.

I had the receipt, so I waited in line at Orange to figure out what had happened.

As it turns out, the woman was wrong when she told me I was buying a month.  I only bought a week's worth for my 10 euros and you have to pay 40 euros for a month.  The guy did say that he would give me the next month for 10 euros and I turned him down like a fool.  In hindsight, I should have taken that so I wouldn't be the next week or so still without a phone.

I went then to the Free store and told them I wanted to buy this plan and that I wanted to use this phone.  He was like "you need a new SIM card" and I was like "ok" and he was like "but you have to get your phone unlocked" and I was like "ughhhh" and so I went back to Orange.

Because I had told the guy at the Orange store that I "would no longer be giving any money to Orange" as my reason to not buy the month, I instead went to a different office.

This guy told me that it was fine for them to unlock my phone, but that they would have to send me an email with instructions and that the email could take 2 to 3 days.

Then he made me wait.  I'm for serious.  He took my name down, and made me wait for someone to SEND ME AN EMAIL.  I think, maybe, you could've done that yourself, sir.  I was the most irritated.

Eventually another man came to send me the email.  He explained that it would have all the instructions.

I asked "do I need to come back to the store then?" and he said "no" and I said "So I never have to go to Orange again in my entire life" and he said "no, I guess not" and I said "good".  And then when I was leaving he was like "see you soon" and I was like "no you won't".

Never again.  I hate that store.