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BlackBerry owes this guy a girlfriend

By Paul McNamara on Wed, 04/18/07 - 3:01pm.

It's just like in that series of AT&T/Cingular TV commercials where the gaps of silence created by dropped calls lead to terrible misunderstandings - only this case involves BlackBerry and real life.

Just as the smoke is starting to clear from today's massive BlackBerry blackout, Rafael Paz, a loss control specialist for a car rental agency, writes to tell me that he has been "getting my e-mails about one to four hours late minimum since yesterday." And it hasn't just been loss control that has suffered, he adds: "This issue sucks. I've been getting grief about it from my now ex-girlfriend thanks to this delay. She thought I was ignoring her e-mails when I was receiving them hours late."

So I write back expressing my fervent hope that he was kidding about the "ex" part. No chance.

"We got into a really bad argument earlier in the day," he replies. "She sent me a few e-mails and when I didn't respond right away, she thought I was ignoring her and called it off. I didn't get the e-mail it was over until around 2 a.m. today."

Not knowing what else to say, I suggest that perhaps this situation might be covered by his BlackBerry service-level agreement. His reply:

"I'll call RIM and tell them to give me an upgrade on a new girlfriend."

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RE: Blackberry owes this guy a girlfriend

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Whoa.

I think this guy owes someone a Blackberry a beer.

Sounds like they helped him chew his leg out of a BIG bear trap!

Shouldn't be hard to find a new girl with a lower maintaince user interface.

-Perk

I think more like a couple

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I think more like a couple of cases of beer...

haha what a loser

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haha what a loser

Oops

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Guy got his wish: a RIMjob. Perhaps a silver lining to this rather silly story...

RE: Blackberry owes this guy a girlfriend

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Your right, either it wasn't worth having a girl like that, she had a guy lined up, she though he was cheating or he wasn't lying the pipe right and she found a escape in this little BS.

tbh, if she dumped him that

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tbh, if she dumped him that fast, and over an email at that, he's better off without her.

I firmly agree

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I can't emphasize the point more. A small technology glich should not harm a relationship that could lead to marriage. What kind of understanding could she have on other more important issues of life?

That's what phones are for

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Why wouldn't they have called each other instead? Sounds like he slept with her sister.

No doubt... I guess a phone

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No doubt...

I guess a phone call didnt cross either of their minds....

whoa, you mean this

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whoa, you mean this blackberry has a phone built-in?!

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