Moms and technology...
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
I know that. My solution is to send her an SMS to "land line" first to tell her to Switch the cell on. I don't know whether it is the same in other countries, but in .ch a SMS send to land line will be delivered... in the way a synthesized voice does read it :)
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Your mom is way ahead of me. I don't even know how to turn mine off! Seriously! :)
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That's the part that amazes me. When it comes to the desktop, she still vaguely knows what windows explorer is, and yet she gets all 1337 / ninja like when it comes to powering down her cell phone.
Jeremy Falcon
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I know that. My solution is to send her an SMS to "land line" first to tell her to Switch the cell on. I don't know whether it is the same in other countries, but in .ch a SMS send to land line will be delivered... in the way a synthesized voice does read it :)
Oh that's cool. AFAIK we don't have that over here in the US.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ah, I keep forgetting that when people say phone they don't mean phone. It's an age thing!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
Yeah man, if you can't play video games on it, then it's not a phone. :~
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh that's cool. AFAIK we don't have that over here in the US.
Jeremy Falcon
It seems AT&T does that[^] I think most carriers do something like this. It just isn't all that well publicized.
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It seems AT&T does that[^] I think most carriers do something like this. It just isn't all that well publicized.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
:thumbsup:
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
Why Yes, though since the phone performance at Xmas, she keeps it on during daylight...
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
My mom writes weekly blogs, handle email like big guys, but has no smart phone and uses her old Nokia only outside...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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My mom writes weekly blogs, handle email like big guys, but has no smart phone and uses her old Nokia only outside...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Go figure. But hey, you gotta give her props for knowing what a blog is.
Jeremy Falcon
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My parents use their cell phone only when they're out. I never call it unless they're visiting us.
Why call them if they're visiting? Why not just speak to them face to face? :-D /ravi
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Why call them if they're visiting? Why not just speak to them face to face? :-D /ravi
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Because they don't stay with us and like to explore on their own.
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Nice. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
She turns it off like it's a regular phone
I don't even know what that means. What "regular phone" has an off switch?
You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded! :)
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I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded! :)
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Jeremy Falcon
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Oh you old folks just don't understand joys of being constantly tethered to an electronic collar.
Jeremy Falcon
I enjoy hiking deep into the woods where there is no coverage; no internet, no cell towers, you can't hear anything but the birds...but yeah it's an old foggy thing. :)
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