My walkie-talkies went about half a block, back in the sixties….Seemed like magic…I bet CB radios are used less now too..Copy that, good Buddy? Rubber Ducky, down to the side..
..I lived without cell phones for 40 of my 60 years….And I still can’t remember what we did without them… Did we really spend all that time in phone booths? How did we find people in a crowd? Even with a cell phone it took 3 calls to find my friend Barbara at a concert..And it turns out we were only a hundred ft from each other..
When I don’t have my phone, I can’t call anybody, because I don’t carry a list of phone numbers in my wallet any more…Which I should probably rethink….. ’case I have to break old school….
back in the day, before cell phones, my husband and I worked an hour and a half from home and I was not familiar with the highway at first so we would use walkie talkies to communicate as I followed him to my work. They worked pretty good.
When they introduced pagers to Iceland, the language academy that decides on the words allowed to enter the language created a compound word translating as “timethief”. The comments here make me wonder if a good term for cell phone would be “mindthief”.
If you have no cell phone, arrange to meet someone in a crowd at 30 minute intervals – if you don’t know when they’ll arrive. Try an agreed rendezvous point at 6PM, then 6:30, then again at 7:00 or even 7:30. Eventually you’ll find them.
We have nothing but a cell. I resisted them until the time I had to drive 2 hours to pick my hubby up from the airport, but his flight was only 1.5 hours so I had to leave before it took off and it ended up delayed over night, so I wasted a 4 hour trip and gas, not to mention a HUGE amount of worry. So we got a cell for when traveling/emergencies. .Then it was only $10 more for a second line, and the land line was $20. So we each got one and got rid of the land line. .Still don’t have a smart phone, I prefer my camera and I don’t need to check my e-mail every 5 minutes. But then my hubby’s work got him a smart phone and I do have to say that the GPS is handy when driving through TN, where the map programs all say “the name changes to blah” every .3 miles, or “stay stright on X” when you come to a T intersection and you need to go right. At least it will tell you when you go in the wrong direction. Also useful for e-mailed coupons and checking prices/reviews in stores.
The thing about walkie-talkies is that you quickly found out you really didn’t have all that much to talk about with your friends. The thing about women and cell phones is that, if you listen in, you quickly find out that they really don’t have much to talk about with their friends, but that doesn’t keep them from nattering away for hours at a time, saying nothing.
Varnes about 11 years ago
My walkie-talkies went about half a block, back in the sixties….Seemed like magic…I bet CB radios are used less now too..Copy that, good Buddy? Rubber Ducky, down to the side..
..I lived without cell phones for 40 of my 60 years….And I still can’t remember what we did without them… Did we really spend all that time in phone booths? How did we find people in a crowd? Even with a cell phone it took 3 calls to find my friend Barbara at a concert..And it turns out we were only a hundred ft from each other..
Varnes about 11 years ago
When I don’t have my phone, I can’t call anybody, because I don’t carry a list of phone numbers in my wallet any more…Which I should probably rethink….. ’case I have to break old school….
jeanie5448 about 11 years ago
back in the day, before cell phones, my husband and I worked an hour and a half from home and I was not familiar with the highway at first so we would use walkie talkies to communicate as I followed him to my work. They worked pretty good.
prrdh about 11 years ago
When they introduced pagers to Iceland, the language academy that decides on the words allowed to enter the language created a compound word translating as “timethief”. The comments here make me wonder if a good term for cell phone would be “mindthief”.
Phosphoros about 11 years ago
If you have no cell phone, arrange to meet someone in a crowd at 30 minute intervals – if you don’t know when they’ll arrive. Try an agreed rendezvous point at 6PM, then 6:30, then again at 7:00 or even 7:30. Eventually you’ll find them.
morningglory73 Premium Member about 11 years ago
I don’t have a cell phone. I don’t need a cell phone. What do you think of that?
hippogriff about 11 years ago
jeanie5448: You couldn’t carpool?
Old Man River about 11 years ago
I bought a prepaid for emergencies, and never need it. YET
ScullyUFO about 11 years ago
What amazes me is how people never run out of things to say.
water_moon about 11 years ago
We have nothing but a cell. I resisted them until the time I had to drive 2 hours to pick my hubby up from the airport, but his flight was only 1.5 hours so I had to leave before it took off and it ended up delayed over night, so I wasted a 4 hour trip and gas, not to mention a HUGE amount of worry. So we got a cell for when traveling/emergencies. .Then it was only $10 more for a second line, and the land line was $20. So we each got one and got rid of the land line. .Still don’t have a smart phone, I prefer my camera and I don’t need to check my e-mail every 5 minutes. But then my hubby’s work got him a smart phone and I do have to say that the GPS is handy when driving through TN, where the map programs all say “the name changes to blah” every .3 miles, or “stay stright on X” when you come to a T intersection and you need to go right. At least it will tell you when you go in the wrong direction. Also useful for e-mailed coupons and checking prices/reviews in stores.
Dampwaffle about 11 years ago
The thing about walkie-talkies is that you quickly found out you really didn’t have all that much to talk about with your friends. The thing about women and cell phones is that, if you listen in, you quickly find out that they really don’t have much to talk about with their friends, but that doesn’t keep them from nattering away for hours at a time, saying nothing.