Do You ALWAYS Carry...... a Phone?
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Re: Do You ALWAYS Carry...... a Phone?
My phone is a business phone and I am required to carry it almost all the time. The few times I get to turn it off or not have it with me is like dropping off a ball and chain. As much as I need and use my phone I look forward to the opportunity to turn it off.
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Re: Do You ALWAYS Carry...... a Phone?
"$20 rolled up with a rubber band for distance"
??. I'm sure I would hear more about that.
??. I'm sure I would hear more about that.
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Re: Do You ALWAYS Carry...... a Phone?
^^^This^^^karder wrote:I always carry a phone because I am on 24/7 call for my job. I hate having a phone all the time and when I retire I am going to get a landline and an answering machine.
It seems like only a few years ago we were not expected to be in constant contact with our employers, spouses, kids, and so on. "Leave a message and I will get back to you" seems so foreign. So when I leave this job I am trashing the iphone and if I am ever in a shooting or emergency situation I will ask one of the dozen kids standing around recording it on their cell phone to call the cops for me.
When I was growing up, the cell phone had not yet been invented. I survived many years without it. Today, I could still do the same.
^^^And this^^^Abraham wrote:
Many think without a smart phone they'd be lost. They're wrong. They're addicted to them. It's an illness.
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
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That one left me scratching my head too.Topbuilder wrote:"$20 rolled up with a rubber band for distance"
??. I'm sure I would hear more about that.

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Re: Do You ALWAYS Carry...... a Phone?
Abraham wrote:karder,
I applaud your future resolve.
Few NEED an I-phone - granted a FEW do, but not most.
Many think without a smart phone they'd be lost. They're wrong. They're addicted to them. It's an illness.



Abraham, you made me laugh. Hard. I saw the poll, voted in it (I don't leave without my phone), and then looked at the results. I saw that there was ONE respondent who voted "didn't see the need", and I thought to myself "I'll bet that was Abraham"!

Of course, I actually agree with you on one level. But I use my phone for a lot more than just making phone calls, and although I haven't don't an actual time study, I'd be willing to bet that I use it as a telephone only about half the time I'm using it...... including sometimes using it to post on this forum. It's a camera, a gps, a calendar, a ballistic calculator, a banking tool, a health monitor, and an Internet access point in the field for my laptop. And that's just off the top of my head.
That said, when I am blessed enough to retire to my future farm, I'll probably stop carrying it all the time.
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