This Present Evil

There are times when the world does its absolute best to unite all forces against me. This time, the culprit is the cell phone companies. Just on the verge of buying a family plan to be shared amongst myself and the folks at home (but luckily not after buying said plan), I made the discovery of a long lost and ancient, but much more detailed than those previously known, map. This map declared that while the intersections on either side of my dad's house receive coverage, while even much of the surrounding land between those intersections receives coverage, my dad's house does not receive coverage. It exists within a narrow strip of land neglected by the towers on either side and left to fend for itself, a lone island in the midst of civilization.

After finding this map of T-Mobile's coverage, I searched in vain for a until-now lost yet detailed map from the only other phone company I had any interest in. They, unfortunately, are much better at hiding their weak points and tricking their enemies into believing there is false profit to be gained. They have no detailed map. I can only imagine my dad's house exists somewhere in the middle of what, on their best map, was a large blank spot somewhere west of Ann Arbor.

At this point I must call the retreat and end the battle.. ah, but not the war. I will yet find a way to defeat these raging armies and claim what is rightfully mine - my own unexpensive cell phone.