I am buying a new cell phone with the intent of changing cell service and am pondering whether I should take my phone number with me or get a new one. Most would say to take it with; after all, switching is just a pain. But see, I have issues with my phone.
My biggest problem is people calling to talk to Felix. They ask me where Felix is. I don't know where Felix is; I've never met Felix; I just have his old phone number. And if I knew what his new number was, I would call him to have him shut off his yahoo text message reminders, sent to his (er, my) cell phone, to pay his Citibank Visa bill. I have told four people now that if they get in touch with Felix, I would really appreciate him turning them off. But Felix mocks me. He doesn't turn them off, and lately they've gotten more frequent. This means that either Felix has decided to send more reminders to me on purpose, or the fact that he hasn't been receivng the messages himself means that he hasn't paid his bill - and thus, Citibank is sending more messages in an attempt to convince him to do so. Either way, it's a bit exasperating.
I also have a somewhat odd phone number; what it spells out is kind of nifty, if you convert the numbers to letters, but if you don't then I have a 666 in the middle of my number. It's a little off-putting on some level.
So I'm torn. Convenience of not having to inform everyone I know that I have a new number? Or convenience of not having to deal with Felix and Satan? What to do....