It is no real secret that I am after a new phone. My old one died, and I come off contract in a couple of weeks, so like the good little industrious ferret I am, I have been scurrying around the phone stores and across the interweb, searching for the best deal and the best phone.

Well, I've chosen the phone (which will remain secret for the moment) and the plan... which will most likely be with three.

I dropped past one of their stores, to be met by a gangly asian boy, (with cool asian hair) who struggled to speak any conversational English, but obviously seemed determine to make up for his lack of prowess with rapid outbursts of high pitched giggling and repeated use of the word 'OK'.

After our brief exchange of words (me asking about phones and plans, him giggling and saying 'OK!'), he handed me a card, and wrote his name and phone number on it. Not the store phone number. His personal number. Is three embarking on a new customer service drive? Or are their customer service reps simply trying to pick up? I mean, sure... I'm the next Brad Pitt and all, but seriously...

And the name. The guy is called 'Adonis', (see pic) and can hardly speak English. What? Does the guy know who Adonis was, and more importantly, what happened to him?

Lets just say, the original mythological Greek Adonis *MAY* have been a little bit 'not in love with women' so to speak... In shakespeares version of the myth, he refuses the advances of Venus. He TURNS DOWN the goddess of Love. Dude... why?

Oh, and then he ends up being killed and 'symbollically raped' by a male pig. He 'hunts' it, and it gores him, right in his 'jubblies'. Oops. I bet the phone selling Adonis in Hornsby didn't think that one through when I picked a 'cool' pseudonym.

At least, I'm pretty sure it's not his real name.