While I’m waiting for my new wireless router to arrive, my smartphone is unable to enjoy WiFi connectivity at home and so I’m restricted to the use of the 3G mobile connection. This isn’t much of a problem as mobile internet is pretty fast these days and I only really look at text based sites anyway.
I’m a big fan of the Inner Ring blog. It’s an absolute goldmine of information on the pro cycling scene and often first to come up with the latest stories. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s well worth checking out, unless you have no interest in cycling in which case you’d probably be better off finding a website that best suits your needs like www.beinganidiot.com.
Yesterday, I selected my Inner Ring bookmark on my phone to get my daily fix on the blog when I was confronted with an age restriction page from O2 (my network provider). Other sites seemed to be working ok so I was baffled and called them up.
I spoke to a very nice lady and told her of my problem and that I was having trouble visiting a sports website, in this case cycling related. She said that they had been having problems with their system and she’d received a few calls of this nature, more towards the online gambling sites. All it would require would be for her to fill out a form on my behalf and then my account would be back to normal within a couple of days. We went through the details and I thanked her for her help before she finished the call by saying, “Enjoy your cycling websites.”
Call me paranoid but I’m sure the way she said cycling was a little bit disbelieving and if it was a video call her comments would include the sign language for speech marks followed by a wink. I think she was assuming that I wanted to surf some mobile porn sites.
I’m just lucky that I didn’t tell her I was visiting Big Ring Riding next. She'd have fallen off her chair..........
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