Attending a district level meeting an acquaintance of mine failed to follow instructions and turn OFF her pagers, she wore two because she was important and needed two to show how important she was. She merely switched them to vibrate.couzin wrote:I have had cell phones of one kind or another ever since a Motorola DynaTac in the late 1980s. In 1996 I got a Motorola StarTac clamshell which fit nicely into my front jeans pocket. I knew it had the first vibration alert offered in a phone, even tested it. Driving around a couple days later, just groovin to some sounds, thinking about the next big idea I was going to squash, when I apparently had an incoming call - which - apparently causes the vibration alert. I thought I was being electrocuted, either that or a rabid squirrel had just climbed up my pants. I grabbed the front of my jeans with one hand while simultaneously raising up off of the seat, kinda crying a aaaaaa!!! sound, while bringing my truck to a screeching halt in a cloud of north Texas red dust in about 4.5 feet from 50 mph, unbuckling the seatbelt, and leaping from the confined space that surely was to be my tomb - and stood beside it shaking my leg like a corner boy trying to dump his stash... I turned off the vibrating alert...
Right smack in the middle of the meeting we were suddenly presented with the sight of the young lady in question levitating out of her chair and making the oddest sounds.
She had left her pagers on her purse strap and hung the purse over the back of the (hotel supplied, it was a BIG meeting, all first and second level managers in the district, at once) chair and it had slid down until the pagers were firmly nestled against her posterior, and then one of them went off.
Yeah, try 5" guns with wads of cotton for hearing protection - it did a fair job of soaking up the blood when my left ear drum tore, and the Navy denies that I suffered any hearing loss from three years of doing that. HUH? WHAT?rthillusa wrote:You not only have phantom vibrations but phantom ringing as well. Dang, there it goes again.
According to my ear Dr, who spent many years in the military and shoots as well, there is no such thing as adequate hearing protection against big bore noise. He said the best you can do is to use ear plugs AND ear muffs, but that still is not going to fully protect you. The sound travels through your bones.
Dang, there it goes again-
What did you say dear? Get a hearing what? Why are the grand kids just moving their lips, are they speaking? No, the TV is not too loud.
Dang, there it goes again
Robert
The City of Plano told me I had gotten some of the highest marks they had ever had when I was testing to be a disptcher, until it came to my hearing.