A guy I knew who at one time delivered milk told me about the trucks that when you stepped off of the pedal it disengaged the clutch and applied the brake. He said he would be in the back of the truck grabbing the milk while the truck was slowly coming to a stop. Does that sound like the truck you described?
How the hell do you get a cell phone plan for $11 a month?
Jon
On 2/6/2010 5:43 PM Metspitzer spake thus:
But *I* don't want a picture at all. It's other people who want one here. I'm fine. (And yes, no digicam and no cell phone for me. By choice.)
I am on one of the Virgin Mobile pre-paid plans, set up to top itself off automatically every 90 days, from the expendable credit card I only use for Internet. Works out to about 8 bucks a month, and I probably have $250 in unused air time on it by now- haven't checked lately. They ride Sprint network, so the coverage is not the greatest, but it is available almost all the places I go more than once a year, so it works out okay for me. Phone lives in my briefcase unless I am expecting a call, or I am on call that day. I try to remember to check the voice mail once a week or so- almost always they are wrong numbers. I haven't been on their web site in over a year- not sure if the plan I am on is still available, or if I am grandfathered. I only NEED a cell phone 3-4 times a year, so there was no way I was gonna get under one of the $30+ per month plans. Kind of hard to not have one these days, seeing as how pay phones have basically vanished, at least in this part of the country.
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There are quite a few prepaid ones under that. Reviews here: >
*I went through the hall when I worked for the studios, but now I am non-union.
Yes, Divco trucks were popular with dairies that delivered milk. If you don't stomp on the parking brake hard enough it will drag the truck to a stop eventually, and that is what he is probably describing. I didn't drive them much, as I didn't like them plus I only had to jockey them around the body shop property. My father serviced the local dairy, they had over 100 of these trucks. That was in the days when 6% milk was considered to be normal milk, now they skim the cream off the milk and sell 5% as light cream, and call 3% as normal milk. Jersey cows regularly gave 6% or richer milk.
The only plan I see from them is ~$30.00 a month, how did you set it up to only be eight?
Jon
Thanks for that Dean, I never would have found those!
Jon
Like I said, not sure if the plan I am on is still available. Buy a phone, activate with 20 bucks (online or scratch-off card), and every 90 days, throw another 20 bucks at it to keep the number hot. Unused minutes/units/whatever roll over forever, which is why I have $200+ in unused air time sitting on it. ISTR the 30 a month is for unlimited use. I pay some token fee per call, plus ten cents or something a minute. I use the thing so little, I'll probably never burn up the air time. By modern standards, a stone-age phone (it is silver- remember silver cell phones?), but I have never used half the features on it. I know it doesn't have camera or internet, though. I can text to an email address, and get text sent to a pseudo-email address. I've tried it a couple times out of mild curiosity, but is so cumbersome to use it would be useless for more than a 5-word note.
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