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12 Jul 05 - 04:10 PM (#1520750) Subject: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Morticia have to dial your mobile/cell phone on a regular basis to find out where you left it? And I am the only one who has had one of these things for the best part of 5 years and still can't memorise the number? |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:12 PM (#1520754) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: GUEST,MMario Luckily mine tells me my number when I turn it on. But as far as locating it? if it's missing I just ignore it until it shows up - which unfortunately it always does. Worst case scenerio was when it disappeared one day and I din't find it until I unpacked the car from a weekend trip. |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:15 PM (#1520757) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Rapparee I don't, but I recently had to do so to find my wife's. It was in her purse.... |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:29 PM (#1520767) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Mrs.Duck At a recent interview my phone did something it never does - it rang - twice. My daughter ringing to find out how the interview had gone.. At the end of the interview they asked me to give them my mobile number to contact me with the results of the interview. Not only could I not remember the number I also didn't know where it was hidden in the phone so had to ring them back later with the number. Didn't get the job btw. |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:30 PM (#1520768) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Clinton Hammond I don't have one so it's not an issue... (Can't imagine why anyone would want one either... or think they NEED one, unless they have no land line) |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:33 PM (#1520771) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: LilyFestre I have to do that sometimes to find my cordless phone...but luckily there's a find button on the base...just hit it and listen for the beeping! Michelle |
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12 Jul 05 - 04:36 PM (#1520775) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Teresa I've done it ... and more for my roommate, too. Well, I finally got a cell because it's much easier as a blind person to get out the phone than to go searching for public phones. Also, it was even more useful when I had computer consulting jobs and had to travel to folks' houses. I could just call them to keep a look-out for me when I was very close, instead of trying to find a phone in a residential area. Teresa |
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12 Jul 05 - 05:22 PM (#1520813) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Charmion As a person with both a office-bound job and a home to go to at quitting time, I neither have nor need a cellular telephone. My friends, relatives and colleagues who have them are forever losing them, being interrupted by them, and finding out their batteries are flat just when they want to make a call. Cellular telephones also seem to be expensive. I think I'll continue to pass. |
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12 Jul 05 - 05:26 PM (#1520821) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Metchosin Well....I don't have a cell, but I regularly page my husband to find out where about the house, he has left his pager. Doesn't work for his cell though, as the cell will not pick up where we live, so automatically goes to message service and..... after 5 years, he still does not know how to retrieve those messages....and he still does not know his own cell phone number either. But, according to him, you are in good company, as it demonstrates that you have your priorities straight. |
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12 Jul 05 - 05:51 PM (#1520849) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: alanabit One of the few advantages of poverty is that you are not obliged to carry these beastly little bits of electronic tagging around with you. If I were about to drive through the Australian outback or do something really exciting like that, I might feel the need for one. Now that young people over the age of thirteen always have them, less people seem to have time to vandalise public telephones. The happy offspin of all this, is that more public telephones, than I have ever known, actually work. (I can afford them too). Unfortunately, in only about two or three years, my daughter will need one, otherwise she will be humbled in front of her classmates -and she does not deserve that. I like to feel I am still just as important as everyone else, even though I am most unlikey to ever own one. |
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12 Jul 05 - 06:02 PM (#1520869) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: JudyB Must admit I never turn mine on unless I'm planning to call someone, or have specifically asked someone to call me on it at a certain time - and I put my own number in the built-in phone book so I could look it up easily. I often work late, walk out of a mostly-deserted building, across a large dark and sometimes icy parking lot, and then drive my usually (but things break down) reliable car half an hour (or more in snowstorms) to get home. I guess I consider my cell phone more like an extension of my insurance than a means of communication. It is a bit pricy, but even when travelling and using it more, I've never exceeded the minimal number of minutes per month in my package. And I feel safer. JudyB |
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12 Jul 05 - 06:08 PM (#1520875) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: GUEST,leeneia I don't have one, but I do have a friend who lost hers. We tried calling it to make it ring, but then she remembered that it was set on "vibrate." Suddenly we started laughing at the idea of the lost phone, vibrating somewhere in the dark. She found it by day, under the seat of her car. |
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12 Jul 05 - 06:12 PM (#1520879) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Liz the Squeak I have often had to ring mine to find it.... usually when someone has been playing with it! It lives in my pocket and is never switched off because it's my watch, my calendar, my phone book and my emergency contact number if anything should happen to Limpit whilst at school or the childminders. I don't use it as a phone very often, people phone me, I don't often phone out. I use it more for text messaging, something that has become a bit of an addiction.... but it means I've got a way to communicate with my friends which they can answer when they want to, not when I want them to. LTS |
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12 Jul 05 - 10:11 PM (#1520928) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Kaleea I have only had to dial my cell number twice. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. And today doesn't count, as my brother called me, whilst, upon hearing it, I wandered to the living room and dug around in my purse where I left it yesterday. By the by, re the other thread, it does indeed NOT ring, but instead "plays" Steel Drum sounding 'Beach Music.' |
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13 Jul 05 - 12:12 AM (#1520967) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: khandu I have on only because my work requires it ( and "they" pay for it, too!). Yes, I too have had to ring it to find it. Alan, public telephones are quickly becoming a thing of the past around here! Once they were everwhere! We are slowly being forced to "go cellular" as the public phones disappear. To top it all off, on many of my road trips, there is absolutely no reason to have the darned cell phone because there is no service in the area! I hate 'em!! k |
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13 Jul 05 - 12:13 AM (#1520968) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Shanghaiceltic Yes have to in my senior moments when asking the cats if they have seen or played with it prodcues no answer. |
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13 Jul 05 - 12:14 AM (#1520970) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: GUEST alanabit, if you were trekking across the outback a cell phone probably would do you no good, as likely as not there is "No Service" in remote areas. |
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13 Jul 05 - 01:29 AM (#1521001) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: alanabit I wouldn't know! I don't know how to switch a cell phone on. |
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13 Jul 05 - 03:11 AM (#1521026) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Don(Wyziwyg)T Mine is always in its holster, clipped to my belt. It is a very old, unfashionable pay-as-you-go. It doesn't take photos, play music, or make the tea. It simply makes or receives phone calls. Nobody calls me except by prior arrangement, other than my wife. It is there solely for the day the car breaks down, or some other emergency occurs requiring its use. I've had it three years, and it has used up two £10 top-up cards. Worth it, I think. Don T. |
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13 Jul 05 - 08:24 AM (#1521040) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: gnu Clinton... why bother to have a land line when a cell is so much more versatile? |
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13 Jul 05 - 08:29 AM (#1521044) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: John Hardly I have to do it all the time. I was resistant to cell phones at first, and my first service didn't help -- it was expensive. But since I changed services I love the little bugger. I've met guitar-playing friends around the country and because we all happen to share the same service, we can talk to each other for "free" (as part of our basic package). Email is fine, but now and again it's nice to pick up and talk to a friend. |
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13 Jul 05 - 08:32 AM (#1521050) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: jacqui.c Mine paid for itself when my car came to an abrupt halt at night on an isolated country road with no pavements and no streetlights. I was on my own and was able to contact roadside assistance without having to leave the car and hike about two miles down the road. Turned out that a fuel line had not been put on properly in my very new car and had come astray. At the risk of being flamed I admit that I am not and have no interest in learning about the mechanics of vehicles. I've also used it to report a man being attacked in London on a quiet Sunday afternoon and to let the police know about a road accident that had just occurred. We now have a programme that gives us 400 minutes a month in calls so I use the cell phone rather than the landline when I can. The technology is there and I reckon that I might as well make use of it. Mine stays in the side pocket of my handbag and I've not had to find it....yet. |
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13 Jul 05 - 08:48 AM (#1521060) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: Blowzabella I'm actually better at remembering telephone numbers, than I am at remembering how to input them into my mobile! As I live in an area with no mobile recption, I often used forget to take it with me, or even charge it up - this lax attitude got me into trouble last weekend when, while out for a walk, I was bitten / stung multiple times by horseflies and went into systemic shock! I was with a friend who had also forgotten her phone. Fortunately, she found a fisherman who had one and was able to call for an ambulance! |
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13 Jul 05 - 08:53 AM (#1521062) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: ranger1 Had one, it lived in it's little charging cradle unless being used. We replaced the service it with a regular landline, because it was cheaper. kept the phone, though, because one can still call emergency services without having an account. I must say that I enjoy not having an electronic tether. |
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13 Jul 05 - 09:01 AM (#1521068) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: GUEST,catsphiddle I regularily have to phone my mobile to find it!! My problem comes when my phone is on silent'vibrate so its ringing away to itself but I can't hear it to find it!! When this happens I generally look for the puzzled looking cat whole doesn't know whether to attack the vibrating object!! |
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13 Jul 05 - 09:01 AM (#1521069) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: JennyO I have had to ring my mobile to find it on a couple of occasions. Of course, that only works when it is on, and I tend to keep it off when I'm home, to save the battery. I've used the phones the other way round too - my landline phone is/are two tiny cordless phones which are actually smaller than my mobile, and a certain person who lives here (not me, of course ;-)) sometimes forgets to put one back on its stand after talking on it. So I have had to ring them sometimes to locate them. I've found them in the weirdest places - even outside waiting to be rained on!! Back to mobiles, I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in Oz, with mobile calls being timed, and local calls on a landline being one low flat rate, the landline is still cheaper. I really only got a mobile for emergencies, like a car breakdown, but I find it is also handy for things like finding people in public places, like festivals, letting people know where I am when I am on my way to their place etc, so it earns its keep - but I like to keep mobile calls short. There is one thing about them though which really annoys me. I only use mine when I have to, turning it on only when I go out. But some people seem to be so used to using them exclusively, that they will ring my mobile and leave a message, not thinking to try me at home - and often I was sitting here at home, quite unaware that they had tried to reach me, until the next time I turn my mobile on as I'm going out. One time, it was a message that I didn't need to go somewhere, and I only got it when I was in the car and about to leave. GRRRRR! They know my home number too. I have had to repeatedly tell a few stubborn people to try my home number first, but they "keep forgetting". Then there are the ads where there is only a mobile number listed to ring, and usually because of the nature of the ads, you are ringing them during the day during peak time, too. That just increases my mobile bill - which is very annoying. Good. That's my winge for the day. Now I feel better. Jenny |
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13 Jul 05 - 07:26 PM (#1521397) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: kendall I've been broken down twice with motor homes and that phone saved me a lot of time getting help. |
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13 Jul 05 - 10:02 PM (#1521502) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: SINSULL I have to have one for work and I hate the damn thing. If I remember to carry it, I forget to turn it on. Ask Kendall - he gets somewhat pissed when he calls and I don't answer. I frequently dial the number to find it and have to keep a paper taped to it with the number printed in bold to remember it. It is written in my check book as well for when I lose the phone. Other than emergencies, a cell phone seems an unreasonable invasion of one's privacy. Just how important could I be to have be available 24 hours a day? |
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14 Jul 05 - 04:27 AM (#1521627) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: fat B****rd I'd used somebody else's a couple of times in mild emergencies but fought off getting one until my wife insisted I have her old one. They are handy but the sight of someone walking down the street with it glued to their head brings out the Mr. Angry in me. I can make/take calls and read messages but I still think I deserve The Nobel Prize for Science for the simplest tasks. |
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14 Jul 05 - 06:14 AM (#1521660) Subject: RE: BS: Hands up, how many of you.... From: gnu Yeah, it's a shame when they become an electronic leash for your work. Amazing how many people think nothing of calling at all hours, especially when it's nothing that couldn't wait until normal business hours. |