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Could you manage without a cell phone?
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: RandyT on April 08, 2011, 02:36:35 pm ---I'll bet dollars to donuts that the first thing that goes through your mind when someone who stops to help you when you are pinned behind the steering wheel coughing up blood, tells you that they have to go find a phone to call for help, is "I can't believe that this idiot doesn't have a cell phone". ;D
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:stupid
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on April 08, 2011, 02:33:18 pm ---I don't remember the last time I saw a payphone out 'in the wild' (I have one in my gameroom)...
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a few years ago I had driven about an hour into Vancouver to meet up with a friend of mine. he told me to meet him on this particular corner at such and such a time and he'd come get me. (his place was way up this goat hill with no parking or nothing, kinda hard to find)
long story short, i missed him and was going to call him an realized i forgot my cell so i walked and walked and walked... probably 8 blocks looking for a pay phone. went into a couple of largish office buildings and nothing. i went back and drove for 5 minutes to a gas station to find the gas station didn't even have a payphone. I had to beg the chick behind the counter to let me use the store phone.
won't be doing that again.
Bootay:
Where I live there are no payphones...seriously. And downtown in the hood, typically most store owners will not let you use their phones. Maybe it is a trust issue I don't know. I don't really go downtown much anyway but when I do I prefer to have a cell with me. Personal preference.
yotsuya:
I use my SmartPhone for finding info for fun, socializing, researching, talking, work, you name it. You'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands first. It's great you don't think you need one, but I don't see the negative in having one. Have to find an address? Use mobile Google Maps. Need to see who's going to be home for dinner- send a text. See how far I jogged? Use the built-in GPS. And so on. I don't see any drawbacks.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on April 08, 2011, 01:25:54 pm ---This is riddled with so many ironies its hilarious. Not to mention I love how humble you are about your "level of intelligence". ::) Anyway, I could live without one for sure, like someone else mentioned, I barely use my phone for actually talking, its mostly texting, which is sometimes annoying too. Me personally, I hate cell phones. Hate em. Sometimes yeah, they are convineint, but overall I dont like having a homing beacon in my pocket. "How come you didnt answer your phone?! I texted you 4 minutes ago, how come you didnt respond" ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- like that bugs me. I also cant stand when people are on the phone at the gym, or in line to check out in the grocery store. Shut your stupid face I dont care what youre blathering about. Its annoying. I think I was meant to grow up in the 30's and die in the 70's. I hate a lot of technology. I also think I was supposed to be raised on a farm. Man, when the hell are one of you guys going to quit goofing around with games and start making something relevent like a ---goshdarn--- time machine. Jeebus.
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Mike, I am completely with you on the cellphone thing. I have a basic phone, and it an everyday annoyance to be expected to be at my phone's beck and call at any given moment. I am somehow expected to respond to every text or call....I might be sleeping, in the bathroom, in my car, at work, or eating dinner....but If I don't respond, I end up getting yelled at, its just a major life instrusion. Could I live without a cellphone? yeah, easily...I sometimes wish for it. Am I ever going back? Probably not, I have just become too lazy and submissive to bother making any change back.
Note: I just noticed you can replace "cellphone" with "wife" in the above paragraph, and it still makes sense. :P
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