#45. Hook something high tech up by yourself.

In October of 2009 Ontario introduced a hands-free law, which makes talking on a cell phone, texting, emailing, etc while driving illegal. I completely agree with the law, especially the texting. However have I not been 100% compliant.

I don’t make or receive many calls while driving partially due to the fact that I don’t hear the ringtone of my cell over the volume of the stereo and my singing. And when I do make calls I use the voice command to call the person, then hit the very tiny button for speaker phone then place the cell either in my lap or keep it in my hand. And yes, to & from a drive thru the other day I kept up a text conversation with my sister while stopped at intersections. I should just go turn myself in.

My parents often on the receiving end of a speaker phone phone call bought me a Bluetooth for Christmas. Let me point out that speaker phone conversations on blackberry’s are exceptionally clear, while iphone speaker phone conversations are very broken up. Blackberry’s also receives greater Wi-Fi signals than iphones. Sorry, getting distracted. T and I have an ongoing war about which phone is better.

Anyway, I decide that I’m going to hook up my own Bluetooth, as T hooks up pretty much everything else. I married a tech geek, may as well put his skills to use! I take the Bluetooth out of the package and just start pushing buttons and wonder why it isn’t responding? Oh, right, it needs to be charged. Plug it into the wall, wait for the light to go green, decide I don’t have the time to hook it up and toss it in my purse deciding I’ll do it later.

Later is 19 days later. I pull it out of my purse and start pushing buttons and nothing happens. So I consult the advice received from googling the make and model of it and determine that I have to ‘pair’ it to my phone. Why read the instructions that came with it? That would be too easy.

I also decide that it is indeed dead again, which is not cool considering I haven’t used it at all since its last charging. (It is not actually dead, I'm just an idiot)

Now I’m considering just handing over both the phone and the Bluetooth and asking the IT guy at work to do his magic, but that would indeed be giving up.
I charge it again. Find the ‘set up Bluetooth’ option on my phone. Have my phone ‘listen’ for the device while I push on the one and only button on the thing other than the volume control and I get nothing. I find the instructions and they are of no help stating I should see an indicator light of some sort. There are no lights no matter what I press and I’m now referring to it as a ‘piece of crap’. And I’m thinking I’ll just continue on the way I have been only I’ll drive over this useless little piece of s*#t to put it out of its stupid misery.

And then I look at the diagram of the Bluetooth on the instructions and discover the teeniest of buttons even my finger nail will barely push is a power button, and from there we are off to the races. ALL this time, I just needed to actually turn on the power. The only way I can explain this teeny tiny button is to tell you that comparable to a belly button it is an 'inny' and all the other buttons are 'outies'. Does that make sense?

So there you have it, it’s hooked up. Don’t ask me how to use it. Hope you enjoyed my blonde moment.