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No home phone

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by mb, Sep 28, 2009.

  1. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    I held out against answering machines all the way through the 1980s, until I had some important job applications on the market and suddenly it was important that I not miss phone calls.

    I held out against a cell phone until 2002, finally took the plunge because I was going out of town for a week and there were reasons I needed a cellie. Once I got it, I gradually started shifting most of my phone calling to the cell, and cutting back the landline service -- from a full-service deal with unrestricted long distance, etc etc., down to a limited-call plan.

    Now I've got a Samsung BlackJack with internet access, e-mail, built-in camera, GPS, the whole smash. I don't use half the stuff on it, but it's fun to have anyway.

    I kept the land line because of 911 and the rationale I needed it for my home fax, then I realized: I sent about three faxes a year from home, and there's a copy center with fax about 300 yards from my house. A year or so ago, there was a bank botch-up on the automatic debit payments on my land line, and all of a sudden I got this notice: "your phone service has been disconnected," so I just said, "fuck it."

    I've gotten along just fine. Everyone who needs to call me can call me, and most of who don't need to, can't. ;) ;)
     
  2. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    I wasn't referring to people grabbing every gadget and application. Just a cell phone, and I'm pretty sure a cell phone has gone way past being a gadget by now.

    Find me a call/text plan that costs more than $100 bucks. No chance a call/text plan costs as much as a car payment. Are you serious?

    Listen, I don't care if you, or anyone else, have a cell phone or not. But don't try to say it's because it would be like having an extra car payment.

    I'm always a little behind on the new "gadgets and applications," but it's like some people enjoy living in the 80s. And good for you. I just find it amusing. That's all.
     
  3. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    When I used to have a cell phone in college, any time you don't answer the phone or at least return the call within 30 minutes or so, people got butthurty about it.
     
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  4. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    They make stuff for that condition.
     
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  5. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    That's a problem with your friends, Rick, not the phone.

    And BTE, I have unlimited texts, the internet and a Canadian calling plan on my phone. I still don't spend $60 a month on it.
     
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  6. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    That's because you probably have some plan with no minutes, since you don't talk on the phone. :D
     
  7. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    I have 450 minutes. I've gone over like twice. Everybody I know has Verizon, so I don't use minutes when I do actually like call people (about once a year, except for my parents).
     
  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Either way, I've been phone-less for years and never regretted it.

    I can't speak for him, but it's not that at all for me. I never go anywhere without my laptop. Heck, if we're talking techie cred, I do my own computer repairs and upgrades.
     
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  9. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    We know as much about these phones as we knew about smoking in 1959, likely less.
     
  10. waterytart

    waterytart Active Member

    Which is why I still have a land line. You're my friend, my immediate or doted-on extended family, my babysitter or my kids' schools? You have my cell number.

    You're on a school committee with me, a synagogue committee, a utility or other vendor, far-flung extended family or <respectful pause> my mother? You have my land line.
     
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