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I don't get the attraction at all:
1. I use my phone when I need it, and I only want to answer it if it is someone I know or need. Why do cell phone users seem to be on them 24-7? What is so important that you just have to take that phone call right then and there? Have you ever had a phone call that if you had missed it your life would have changed forever? You couldn't call back in a little while?
2. Why do you need to answer the phone to tell someone you're walking down the street/your checking out at the cashier in a store/your waiting for the doctor. Does that person care so deeply they just have to know at that moment?
3. Many people tell me, "But the call could be important." So important you can't wait to go home? Exactly how important can it possibly be? When hubby was sick, I opted not to take my landline phone to my bedroom if "the call" came in the middle of the night. I didn't want to be woken up to be told he was dead. He'd be just as dead the next morning when I was braced to click that message on my machine. If they had to perform an emergency operation, (and they did), they already knew what I wanted, and could judge from that. Not like I was going to say, "No, he has to keep that big machine attached to him." "Of course he shouldn't be put on dialysis. Why would I want that just because his kidneys failed? "Of course he shouldn't get that surgery you've been planning for a month to save his life." I've had the phone calls that were that important. They know when I'll be home, (because they knew how long it would take me to get home after leaving him for the day), and tell me the problem. OR they waited for me to see him that day, so I could sign the papers.
4. Other emergencies: What if the car dies in the middle of rush hour during a blizzard? Experience. Every single person passing by me asked if I wanted them to call the cops. Cops came in five minutes, (Probably because they got a dozen phone calls. lol) What if you need a ride? Well, you're either home where you can use your landline, or you're at a store, office, or hospital where you can use theirs, or your at a friend's house, so you can use theirs.
I don't get cellphones. Many people on here are complaining that they can't see what they're writing on their cellphones. There already was an answer to that. It's called a keyboard! Why squint, when you can be writing on a large screen? Or why write everywhere every time?
And I'm scared to call someone on their cellphone, because usually they're driving their car. WHY ARE YOU ON A CELLPHONE WHEN YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ROAD?
So anyone want to try and make sense of the cellphone to me. It feels like we've gone from owning a phone to being owned by a phone. And frankly, I really don't care that you're so bored waiting for a cashier, because I'm not that bored that I want to hear about it!
1. I use my phone when I need it, and I only want to answer it if it is someone I know or need. Why do cell phone users seem to be on them 24-7? What is so important that you just have to take that phone call right then and there? Have you ever had a phone call that if you had missed it your life would have changed forever? You couldn't call back in a little while?
2. Why do you need to answer the phone to tell someone you're walking down the street/your checking out at the cashier in a store/your waiting for the doctor. Does that person care so deeply they just have to know at that moment?
3. Many people tell me, "But the call could be important." So important you can't wait to go home? Exactly how important can it possibly be? When hubby was sick, I opted not to take my landline phone to my bedroom if "the call" came in the middle of the night. I didn't want to be woken up to be told he was dead. He'd be just as dead the next morning when I was braced to click that message on my machine. If they had to perform an emergency operation, (and they did), they already knew what I wanted, and could judge from that. Not like I was going to say, "No, he has to keep that big machine attached to him." "Of course he shouldn't be put on dialysis. Why would I want that just because his kidneys failed? "Of course he shouldn't get that surgery you've been planning for a month to save his life." I've had the phone calls that were that important. They know when I'll be home, (because they knew how long it would take me to get home after leaving him for the day), and tell me the problem. OR they waited for me to see him that day, so I could sign the papers.
4. Other emergencies: What if the car dies in the middle of rush hour during a blizzard? Experience. Every single person passing by me asked if I wanted them to call the cops. Cops came in five minutes, (Probably because they got a dozen phone calls. lol) What if you need a ride? Well, you're either home where you can use your landline, or you're at a store, office, or hospital where you can use theirs, or your at a friend's house, so you can use theirs.
I don't get cellphones. Many people on here are complaining that they can't see what they're writing on their cellphones. There already was an answer to that. It's called a keyboard! Why squint, when you can be writing on a large screen? Or why write everywhere every time?
And I'm scared to call someone on their cellphone, because usually they're driving their car. WHY ARE YOU ON A CELLPHONE WHEN YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ROAD?
So anyone want to try and make sense of the cellphone to me. It feels like we've gone from owning a phone to being owned by a phone. And frankly, I really don't care that you're so bored waiting for a cashier, because I'm not that bored that I want to hear about it!
Don't you wish you had a cell phone back then?
I'm sure you'd be on it all day.
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Three of us -- oldest brother, older brother, and I -- were all born within 28 months, so whatever the oldest did, the rest of us did about the same time. Oldest brother was beginning to buy albums. Mom was trying to understand this rock stuff -- names of groups, what kind of music, and why. (Poor Mom. Looking back, I realize she was only in her late 20's to early 30's and we already passed her off as OLD. lol) Especially why. My brother told her he wanted to buy a new album and she asked which one.
"Guess Who."
"I don't know. If I knew the names, I'd be able to guess."
We had a good time laughing at her, but that's about where I am now. I'm trying to get this without having to buy the album. lol
So "not AS nuts?" Where does that fit on the Nut Scale? On phone every second you're awake is a 10. And, being able to live within a 100 minute a month plan is 1. What's "not AS nuts?"
What is your definition of an emergency? (And, remember, I did call because I would be late, so even I have some idea of what an emergency might be, even when it's not as big of an emergency as the house is on fire.) And of your monthly phone use, how often does emergency come up?
Also, what percent do you use the phone simply because your waiting or on public transportation and it's boring? Compare that to just doing it because you like to.
I get who the Guess Who were. I don't get phones. I'm still back fairly proud I knew who the Guess Who were. lol
"Guess Who."
"I don't know. If I knew the names, I'd be able to guess."
We had a good time laughing at her, but that's about where I am now. I'm trying to get this without having to buy the album. lol
So "not AS nuts?" Where does that fit on the Nut Scale? On phone every second you're awake is a 10. And, being able to live within a 100 minute a month plan is 1. What's "not AS nuts?"
What is your definition of an emergency? (And, remember, I did call because I would be late, so even I have some idea of what an emergency might be, even when it's not as big of an emergency as the house is on fire.) And of your monthly phone use, how often does emergency come up?
Also, what percent do you use the phone simply because your waiting or on public transportation and it's boring? Compare that to just doing it because you like to.
I get who the Guess Who were. I don't get phones. I'm still back fairly proud I knew who the Guess Who were. lol
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Ah, and Dad's biggest fear with the neighbors was one of them "was in the mafia." (I'm not even sure if one really was, but I live in South Philly. Every block has someone in the mafia. That's only a problem if you want to do something illegal on their turf or you happen to be walking by during a mafia war. The last mafia war was 25 years ago -- about the time we moved here.)
Yeah, not going to ask illegal types to help me out though. Point taken.
Yeah, not going to ask illegal types to help me out though. Point taken.
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The battery in my watch died before hubby had a procedure done at the hospital. (A test.) The test was "half an hour," but that's hospital time, not real time. (Hospital time, half an hour is anywhere between 10 minutes and 6 hours.) I finally figured out how to tell time without a watch -- my cell phone! lol
I take it back. I have used my phone within the last month.
I take it back. I have used my phone within the last month.
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The battery in my watch died before hubby had a procedure done at the hospital. (A test.) The test was "half an hour," but that's hospital time, not real time. (Hospital time, half an hour is anywhere between 10 minutes and 6 hours.) I finally figured out how to tell time without a watch -- my cell phone! lol
I take it back. I have used my phone within the last month.
I take it back. I have used my phone within the last month.
But yeah that was literally the hardest thing of not having a phone; not telling the time
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Better neighborhood now? (And you remind me of the difference between when I worked in the Bad Lands vs. just worked in a ghetto. The Bad Lands was the worst of all the ghettos, where the tough guys feared going, so my coworkers couldn't understand why I wasn't scared to walk to the bus stop in the ghetto. I wasn't ducking from a drug war gunfight every two weeks anymore, so it felt like heaven. Poor people aren't bad. Bad people are bad!)