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MzMia -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 3:57:42 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 I don't have a cell phone. Years ago I had one and I was driving down this mountain road in New Hampshire at about 60 mph and tried to use it and almost ran off the road. I said, "man,...these things are fucking dangerous!" I threw it out the window into the woods and haven't had one since. When all you guys have brain tumors from using them like Ted Kennedy I'll be one of the few left alive. But, there'll probably be plenty of poor chicks left who couldn't afford them. Mia, I think the pay phones are right next to the mail boxes. ROFL... That story gets funnier every time I hear it! OMG... thank you... I needed that laugh! Lockit! Isn't he a riot? I don't always agree with him 100% politically, but I love his spirit. What a sweetie. He will get better later on, after a few beers.

pinksugarsub -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 4:38:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: christine1 i was reading a story not too long ago about how AT&T is going to start phasing out payphones becuase they just aren't profitable anymore. i haven't used a payphone in ages, i don't have a cell phone either. i like not being able to be contacted 24/7. So i'm driving in my neighborhood and i stop at a red light at a busy intersection. My car's whole electrical system suddenly shuts off. i can't move the car, and i can't put on flashers. i'm scared sh*tless. Then some nice lady stops behind me and sets her car's flashers on. She uses her cell to call 911 for police assistance in moving me and my car out of harm's way, and stays until the police arrive. Dawned on me then that a cell isn't just a convenience. Not remembering to carry it is a bad habit, and i know i should do better. pinksugarsub P.S. i don't think ATT should be permitted to phase out pay phones for at least some neighborhoods. So what if they aren't a revenue generator? They are a safety feature for the local residents. P.P.S. A/anyone ever used a 'call box' on the freeway to contact the police after T/their car broke down? i'd be too scared to walk the side of the freeway to get to one.

Lockit -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 5:00:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 I don't have a cell phone. Years ago I had one and I was driving down this mountain road in New Hampshire at about 60 mph and tried to use it and almost ran off the road. I said, "man,...these things are fucking dangerous!" I threw it out the window into the woods and haven't had one since. When all you guys have brain tumors from using them like Ted Kennedy I'll be one of the few left alive. But, there'll probably be plenty of poor chicks left who couldn't afford them. Mia, I think the pay phones are right next to the mail boxes. ROFL... That story gets funnier every time I hear it! OMG... thank you... I needed that laugh! Lockit! Isn't he a riot? I don't always agree with him 100% politically, but I love his spirit. What a sweetie. He will get better later on, after a few beers. Oh yes! I am a fan... I want to hear him play music too! hehe... I want to see if he wiggles when he plays. But then... I degress...

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 6:29:46 PM)
Miz Mia, I don't even drink! And Lockit I'm glad I made you and Mia laugh! No, I don't "wiggle" when I play. Now, why portable phones make people inefficient. A Tower of Babel. When I first moved here all the buildings wearn't built and we only had a small dumpster as the Homeowners' Assoc. wanted to save money naturally. One day I was comming back from a walk and saw that the dumpster had been emptied but people had left trash all over the place because the dumpster had been full and trust me they don't take it back in the condo with them. And, Waste Management has so many "efficiency experts" that their trucks are on a tight schedule and the drivers do not get out of the truck and pick up overflowing trash. It's an extra $25 fee for that and they just send a guy out in a pickup truck and he picks up the trash and puts it,...in the dumpster. So, I just figured that I'm retired and not doing that much so I get a pair of gloves and spend about ten minutes cleaning up the mess. After ,I go into the "Model" where the resident agent "Sean" has his office and told him what I'd done. "Oh no!" says he. "Now I have to get back on the phone to call "Lib" the secretary for the home owners' assc. to tell her to cancel the extra $25 pick up man from Waste Management" who he'd already called before I picked up the trash because he saw the mess too. So, he gets on the phone to Lib who'd already called Waste Management's office and they'd already called the pickup man who got the message and was on his way. Lib again calls the waste management head office and tells them to call the pickup man in his pickup truck to tell him not to come because someone already cleaned up the mess, me. Then, the agent Sean gets a call from Waste Management, "Is our pickup man there/" "No, he hasn't shown yet and he doesn't have to so you can tell him to cancel." "O.k., I'll give him another call just to make sure!" Sean's phone rings again and it's the pickup man right outside the office! Sean tells him the mess has already been picked up and he can go. The pickup man tells him, "Hold on, I have another call from headquarters." "I'll call you back! Click! He takes that call and calls again in about 30 seconds and tells Sean, "Ok, that was headquarters and they told me to cancel!" "Your condo secretary called headquarters and told them to cancel me but I was on another phone." lol Then Sean's phone rings again and the condo secretary wants to know if the pickup man ever showed because he wasn't supposed to as shed called Waste Management to cancel. I'm standing there listening to all this shit for 10 minutes and shaking my head and laughing. Everyone's "management" now! Everyone with a portable phone is calling someone else with a portable phone to try to get them to "do something." Everyone thinks they're the "Boss!" "They're" not going to do it "someone else" is going to do it. So, the trash got picked up. By,................................... the only guy without a phone. Me.

DesFIP -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 6:55:50 PM)
My first cell phone lived in the car and ran off the car charger and was used solely when the car broke down to call for a tow. These days the cell phone comes in the house at night to be charged since I have no idea where the car charger is. But I have kids and if the younger misses the bus, he needs to be picked up. My oldest, in college, needed hers when she spun out in a snow storm with no precise knowledge of where she was. She called me frantic, I told her to call 911 and that the state police could use GPS to find her, which they did.

soul2share -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:11:02 PM)
I have a cell phone, one of the pay as you go types.....to me, it's a necessary evil. I don't use it much...but I'd be screwed without it because all my phone numbers are on it! To me, nothing is more aggravating to be sitting someplace and hear everyone's conversation going on around me. On buses, in restaurants, hell, even just walking down the street! I watch some folks who hang up from one call, only to turn around and start another one! I spend most of my work time answering phones......so I'm not a huge fan of them when I'm not at work. Half the time, I have no idea where either the cordless or cell phone is....I've been known to call my cell from my home phone just ot locate the damn thing! It takes me forever to go thru my minutes on my cell, and my home phone usually has dust on it! As far as the pay phones, I've never had a problem finding any, most convenience stores have them, your larger retailers also, and some of the restaurants. The only problem I ever had with pay phones is that calling 911 is free.......do you know how many man hours cops spend just chasing down prank 911 calls at pay phones?? But that's another story altogether. And it's .50 to make a 4 minute local call here in the Valley.

Lockit -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:19:39 PM)
ROFL Popeye... after reading that I feel better about your not wiggling when you play... music...

MzMia -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:25:26 PM)
I did not realize you don't endulge in "spirits". You are a great neighbor, not too many would have cleaned that up You are the man![;)]

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:37:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: DesFIP My first cell phone lived in the car and ran off the car charger and was used solely when the car broke down to call for a tow. These days the cell phone comes in the house at night to be charged since I have no idea where the car charger is. But I have kids and if the younger misses the bus, he needs to be picked up. My oldest, in college, needed hers when she spun out in a snow storm with no precise knowledge of where she was. She called me frantic, I told her to call 911 and that the state police could use GPS to find her, which they did. Des, that's why I bought my phone in N.H. too, in case of emergencies. I moved up to the foothills of the White Mntns and they find people dead in broken down cars there every once in a while in -20 degrees in January. Problem was it didn't work within 5 miles of my house! Mountains. Of course they don't tell you things like that when you're buying the phone and signing the contract that Verizon's ... ahem,..."representative"... in Radio Shack hands you, a 17 year old kid who's, "filling in for his Dad!" And were you aware that you can't sue the phone companies? And, most times anyone calls you on the phone these days they're looking for something either your money or your time! I like to have a little fun with them; "Hello, I'm with H&H Siding company and we're having a "special" in your area this month!" Me; ...Oh? I live in a log cabin." "Click." "Hi! I'm Mike, a Sales Representative from G&G Replacement Windows and we're having a half price special in your area!" Me; "Oh Mike,...you should have called 3 months ago, I had the whole house done!" "I got a Great Deal though, only cost me $26,000, I got 'em good! I could hear the breath leave his body. "Click." Or sometimes I like to have some fun with them ala The Jerky Boys. "Hi, I'm collecting to prevent the slaughter of seals off the coast of Canada!" Me,..."Oh!, Oh! Oh! you wanta fucka my daughter Sheila and make her pregnant ina Canada!!!???" "Whoo 'da fuck issa deese!" "I cutta you fuckin'a Salami off!" "Fuckin' Umbriago!" "Manazia lo Diabla Chooch! "Click." You got to have fun with it! I just don't want a portable phone because then you become a slave to the phone. Then, they "can" reach you somehow and it's always relatives with their hand out.

MzMia -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:43:36 PM)
Okay Popeye, I am taking notes now. ...things to say to the many soliciters that call me, thank you! Popeye, just having a cell phone hardly makes you a slave to it, you can keep it turned off and just use it when you want to and check your voice mails.

Lockit -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:53:18 PM)
LOL Popeye... did I tell you the time this one company would not stop calling... I waited and pushed number one for their saleman to get on the line. I rushed in quickly as I knew he wouldn't last long when he asked me how I was today. "Oh I just had my boyfriend tied to the bed and was giving him the best blow job... you sure picked a bad time to call." He choked. "So, I have asked you all to not call me and take me off your list, but you keep calling, so whenever you call me again, you will hear all about my boyfriend and I." He laughed and took me off the list.

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:55:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia Okay Popeye, I am taking notes now. ...things to say to the many soliciters that call me, thank you! Popeye, just having a cell phone hardly makes you a slave to it, you can keep it turned off and just use it when you want to and check your voice mails. Mia, I can't see the buttons on the phone without my reading glasses! And if I'm wearing my reading glasses I can't see the road. How do you think I almost ran off the road in N.H.? "Man! They grow some BIG trees around here!"

slaveboyforyou -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 7:56:47 PM)
MzMia, I see pay phones here and there still. They cost 50 cents here. I remember when they were a dime. Now here's a bigger challenge for you. How often do you see actual phone booths? I haven't seen an honest to God phone booth in years.

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:13:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lockit LOL Popeye... did I tell you the time this one company would not stop calling... I waited and pushed number one for their saleman to get on the line. I rushed in quickly as I knew he wouldn't last long when he asked me how I was today. "Oh I just had my boyfriend tied to the bed and was giving him the best blow job... you sure picked a bad time to call." He choked. "So, I have asked you all to not call me and take me off your list, but you keep calling, so whenever you call me again, you will hear all about my boyfriend and I." He laughed and took me off the list. LOL, Lockit, that's a good one! Next time rig up some "screaming" noises for the background! Maybe they'll send the cops! lol Slaveboy, yeah, me neither! We had one down the corner from my house when I was a kid and I remember ruining a lot of screwdrivers trying to rob it.

JohnSteed1967 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:26:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pinksugarsub Just another example of the old saying: "Hi, we're from the government and we're here to help you'. LOL. pinksugarsub which is why we are being told to convert to DTV Next year. WHY? Because the Government will sell those frequencies for pennies and then big companies will buy them and run Pay Wifi off of those TV frequencies and make BILLIONS. What the little birdie told me that Rupert Murdoch is behind all of it, telling the government that we had to have those frequencies so that EMT personnel could communicate better with each other (9/11), But do you think old Rup has EMT's needs at heart???

MzMia -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:27:18 PM)
popeye, they even have special phones for those that need reading glasses now. Senior Cell Phones \| Easy To Use Cell Phones \| Emergency Cell Phones With the jitterbug, you press 1 button and the operator makes the calls for you, 24 hours a day!

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:30:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia popeye, they even have special phones for those that need reading glasses now. Back to Basics with the Doro HandlePlus Big Button Cell Phone » TFTS - Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities lol "Special" phones? Oh nice! You calling me a retard now?

MzMia -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:32:07 PM)
Popeye, not at all, never! I am just sayin, they have phones for everyone!

BOUNTYHUNTER -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:33:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou MzMia, I see pay phones here and there still. They cost 50 cents here. I remember when they were a dime. Now here's a bigger challenge for you. How often do you see actual phone booths? I haven't seen an honest to God phone booth in years. I have seen a few in the last 5 years and those out there you can't receive incoming calls..bad for business as a seller just might miss a business call lol...

popeye1250 -> RE: On My Way Out/ Going to look for pay phones today! (6/13/2008 8:40:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia Popeye, not at all, never! I am just sayin, they have phones for everyone! Mia, that was a joke.[:D]

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