Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-19-19 07:03 <=-
And cell phones when they first came out, the huge ones.I wasn't anywhere near the cutting edge on those
I didn't get my first one until around '08. And that was simply
because I could have one cheaper than a landline. I was paying about
$20 a month and hardly used it. I could get a cell for about $5 a
month.
I pay-as-you-go with TracFone and my cost is still about $5 a
month with triple (or double) minutes so each one I buy I get two or
three free and only charged for what I use.
That first one was a basic flip phone. After a couple of years I
got better one and finally a smart phone that was used mostly to photograph violators that could say handicap, no parking, etc wasn't marked. This way it showed they were in violation. And it was even
better when I got one with wifi and a university account so didn't have
to pay data rates to send the pictures to the office, I could do it for free.
I don't really care to call someone just to chat, figuring
they are busy doing something. Always been that way.
My minutes roll over and over the years I have racked up 44 hours
of talk time the last time I checked a few weeks ago. :)
I have to buy time quarterly to keep the phone active.
I got my first one so that I'd have something in an emergency on the road... now it's for a little more than that, but just basic convenience and in case of emergency...
Quoting Kurt Weiske to Nancy Backus on 01-22-19 06:48 <=-
Re: Re: Cell phones (was: Re:
By: NANCY BACKUS to JOE MACKEY on Sun Jan 20 2019 04:02 pm
I got my first one so that I'd have something in an emergency on
the road... now it's for a little more than that, but just basic
convenience and in case of emergency...
"I'm on a CELLULAR PHONE! It's only a BUCK a MINUTE, and the battery
lasts OVER 12 HOURS!"
-- me, circa 1995.
NANCY BACKUS wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-
You went for it earlier than I did.... ;) I tend to hold out on technology until I need it for something.... ;) So by the time I gave
in and got one, it was more like 10 cents a minute... ;) And the
battery lasted for a week or more.... ;)
Quoting Kurt Weiske to Nancy Backus on 01-27-19 08:56 <=-
You went for it earlier than I did.... ;) I tend to hold out on
technology until I need it for something.... ;) So by the time I
gave in and got one, it was more like 10 cents a minute... ;) And
the battery lasted for a week or more.... ;)
I was on-call, 24/7 with a pager. I do miss those times before cell phones, as pay phones were common and pagers were a communications
device for a more civilized age. You paged someone, and you had to be engaged in the issue. They'd call you back, you'd have a discussion, capture whatever information was needed, and set an expectation of when something could be fixed/resolved/etc.
Now, people send an email and assume the clock is ticking as soon as
they hit send, and they have their own expectation of how long it
should take.
... Do you ever see inconsistencies in your world?
Now, people send an email and assume the clock is ticking as soon as they
hit send, and they have their own expectation of how long it should take.
Quoting Joe Mackey to Kurt Weiske on 02-01-19 06:26 <=-
Now, people send an email and assume the clock is ticking as soon as they hit send, and they have their own expectation of how long it should take.
A lot of times I prefer to text someone with a quick msg.
I always think whomever I am calling is busy doing any number of
things and interrupting them. With a text they can glance at it and
see if something that needs their immediate attention or can wait till later.
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