I knew what it was the second I touched it. I was disappointed because usually they come with a bit of thin cardboard so a random stranger can't immediately tell what's in the envelope. It's a good invitation for one to disappear for a couple days' worth of unauthorized use. But since I now had it in hand, I guess I couldn't complain too hard.
As soon as I opened it up they almost lost me immediately as a customer, even after all these years. And even though it would hurt my credit rating. Why? When I started reading through for a phone number to call to start the card working, the first thing on their communication was a QR code.
Have I mentioned here that I don't do QR codes? I mean mention by not more than a dozen or so times? I suppose it could be a "subtle" ploy to send me out to finally buy an expensive smart phone, figure out how to use the damn thing, add the programming to handle QR codes, learn how to use those, and finally set my new card into use.
Thing is, I pretty much know how much smart phones cost. No thanks. I don't have the credit card to cover one right now, thanks anyway, or not apparently till I use one with the QR code programming to set my new one up for use. Then I might be able to if I chose to do it. I guess some of you are starting to see the issue here, right? Or have you already had your smartphone surgically implanted somewhere in not too embarrassing a location to pull it out from for use in public? I do promise never to ask you where, nor what the logistics are for getting it recharged, or how long it takes to stuff it back where the cop who just pulled you over for using it while driving can't see it, so by the time they walk up to your rolled down car window they have no clue what you might have done with it in those last 5 seconds and are beginning to think you were an optical delusion. Honest!
Because even if you manage to pull that off I don't ever want to know how and never wish to perjure myself in court lying about it. No matter how much I care about you.
But even more pressing a reason is without that card activated I can't use it to buy the new phone I'd need in order to activate it by QR code. Just a tiny little dilemma here, right?
As I peel the card away from the paper it's rubber-glued to, a phone number magically appears. I can actually use old school tech to get my card activated! WOW! Somewhere in that office there lurks in the shadows a human who actually realizes there are folks out here like me who refuse the universal call to turn ourselves into AI adjacent units of relentless commerce.
I guess I'll keep that company for a while yet.
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