Cell Phone Ending

After having his cell phone run over, I have been searching the internet to try and find hs kid some kind of phone to put his sim card into. I talked to four ATT reps who all had very expensive solutions to the problem. I bowled league this morning and talked to fellow bowlers and between all them they were confident that they could rustle up an ATT branded phone they were no longer using. Just for the heck of it I stopped at ATT store and that rep pitched the same expensive options. As we were discussing the problem he said, who is the phone for, as if this mattered? I said a careless teenage boy. He said, oh, well then why don't you just buy him a cheap GO phone from Walmart and put his sim card in it. I said that will work? He said sure. Arg! Why wasn't this offered as a solution in my many minutes on the phone with customer service? Since this is a temporary solution, I got the cheapest phone they had, which was a candy bar style nokia for 18.99. The funny thing is, it comes with tetris, pacman, and galaga, the full versions, all games hs kid has been nagging me to let him download on his now crunched beyond recognition phone. I slapped his sim card in, plugged the phone in and voila, the onslaught of three days of text messages hit the phone at an alarming rate. He's good to go. Such a bummer ATT couldn't have been more helpful. And even if we end up getting him something different if I run across a deal, it will be nice to have a back up phone on hand in case something happens to one of our other phones. A happy ending.