Would you please help me know what the problem is with my
phone? A man who happens to be in his forties asks. The touch of the phone, its
weight and glimmer confirms that it is not an original handset. If you make a
mistake of asking him of the shop he bought it, it would go to lacking,
carelessness, necessity and robbery linked stories.
The phone chimes like an alarm after every few minutes only
to indicate a low battery. The chiming does not cease even if it were connected
to power. He says the problem started a few days from the time he bought it. He
wonders if there is any phone repairing centre around. There is none.
He is not the only one. My father bought himself a good Nokia
phone those days and bought a lesser Siemens product for mom. After a few
months, despite constant warnings that children should not handle it, we came
to nick name it Chi Chi Chi. It is from the tone it used to make a short time
after taking it from the recharging place.
We used to pay ten shillings for every time the phone was
taken. It would require one of us to wake up early to find room. There were no
enough chargers. Your battery would be put on a universal recharging devise
that would see it bloat. Before twilight, the time we expected dad to be
calling from the city, Chi Chi Chi was dying. World Bank had it then that
anyone living below a dollar a day was poor. We must have been the poor of the
poor.
This post is about the psychological torture that comes with
cheap gadgets. You will blame the seller, manufacturer, repairing man, yourself
and just induce hatred in self. You will wake up on false hope that once you
purchase the battery things will be good for some time before you find out that
the earpiece is faulty. If you are not clever enough the corrupt boys and
dealers will be doing less to keep it struggling just to get coins (notes I
mean; coins got no value) out of you.
It is not your problem that a fake thing is in the market.
You could only access an item to the extent of your money. You could have
bought a better gadget, wouldn’t you? Let us leave that to the digestion of
economists. It is but war and you happen to be the victim. The war may not end
soon because your will enrich the soil for better minerals and nutrients to
sustain it come your day.
To avoid being a victim, keep your appetites satiated. There
are better gadgets, good to the cause that you need and affordable. The other
day she wanted me to put music on her memory card. Video music! She kept on
calling latter that they were not working. She expected that phone to allow the
format? Ignorance is not an excuse.
Be like Professor Mwanzi whom I asked an email from and said
that he is not part of that civilization. What I should do is to send what I
want via the postal address. For it is better to live without that stubborn
gadget. It is peace that comes above all, isn’t it?
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