u/SylVegas

My husband is eligible for an upgrade and went through the Boost website last week to buy a new phone. First time the order didn't go through. Second time it wouldn't accept his credit card. Third time he used a different credit card and it went through, only to have them cancel it and lock his account from making purchases or changes. Customer service told him it would be locked for four days.

Today he called them directly to order his new phone and change plans. It seemed to go through with no problem, but he was just notified that they cancelled his order again. He called customer service and spoke to three different people, but nobody could explain why his orders keep getting cancelled. For those who've experienced this, how did you manage to buy your phone? Does he physically have to go in to a Boost store to get a new phone?

I'm bored at work (college librarian, very few students on campus), so I'm going down a rabbit hole of scholarly reading about werewolves and came across this entry from the Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages that discusses lycanthropy. This part in particular stood out to me:

"Becoming a Werewolf: The reasons for which a person (usually a man) becomes a werewolf in the medieval period vary. Sometimes an individual or group is punished with lycanthropy, although the reasons are not always known. Women are typically only transformed into werewolves in concert with their husbands, as in Gerald of Wales’ account. This trope of lycanthropy as punishment is in keeping with the classical model of Lycaon, who in Ovid’s Metamorphosis is transformed into a werewolf as a punishment for his inhospitality. More commonly, however, no reason is given for an individual’s lycanthropy in medieval texts. Furthermore, the contemporary popular treatment of lycanthropy as a contagious disease–the idea that a werewolf can turn others into werewolves by biting them–does not appear in the medieval period."

It will be interesting to see if some of the concepts discussed appear in the film. Here's the link in case anyone is interested in reading.