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Your mom is way ahead of me. I don't even know how to turn mine off! Seriously!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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That's the part that amazes me. When it comes to the desktop, she still vaguely knows what windows explorer is, and yet she gets all 1337 / ninja like when it comes to powering down her cell phone.
Jeremy Falcon
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I know that. My solution is to send her an SMS to "land line" first to tell her to Switch the cell on. I don't know whether it is the same in other countries, but in .ch a SMS send to land line will be delivered... in the way a synthesized voice does read it
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Oh that's cool. AFAIK we don't have that over here in the US.
Jeremy Falcon
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It seems AT&T does that[^]
I think most carriers do something like this. It just isn't all that well publicized.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Jeremy Falcon
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Verizon charges you a quarter. Like an old time phone call!
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The first time I got an SMS voice message on my landline it was a female voice saying "Hi Dad, I'm going to be late - please can you come and pick me up". The confusion was that I did not have any daughters. So, I asked my son who had just arrived home and he said it was a text message that he had sent an hour ago, but had only just arrived.
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Great
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Why Yes, though since the phone performance at Xmas, she keeps it on during daylight...
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My mom writes weekly blogs, handle email like big guys, but has no smart phone and uses her old Nokia only outside...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Go figure. But hey, you gotta give her props for knowing what a blog is.
Jeremy Falcon
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When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Nice.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: She turns it off like it's a regular phone
I don't even know what that means. What "regular phone" has an off switch?
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You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Never would've guessed this is what you meant.
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Yes. My mother has now a phone with long life accus (Samsung E1150) and I convinced her, that the phone is made for staying online.
Job done.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded!
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Oh you old folks just don't understand joys of being constantly tethered to an electronic collar.
Jeremy Falcon
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I enjoy hiking deep into the woods where there is no coverage; no internet, no cell towers, you can't hear anything but the birds...but yeah it's an old foggy thing.
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Perhaps she thinks she continues to get charged as long as it's on.
Back in ancient times, long distance calls being charged by the minute was a big thing and people worried about how long they talked.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Turned off and ignored in her purse that dumbphone she has will go months between charges.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Moms and people who don't need to check facebook 20 times an hour turn their phones off so they can work uninterrupted. It turns out that they don't miss out much if you have to wait to share the latest cat picture off the internet. They keep a cat for that. They get their news curated at 6 pm, and it's still fresh, even though you heard about it at 13:46. They exchange long letters (perhaps by email), rather than 140-character tweets.
It's naive, as well as insensitive, to expect all people to take up the same technology you do and use it in the same way. That doesn't make them "moms".
You need to give your mom an actual reason to have their phone on. Baby pictures will usually do the trick, if you're motivated enough to help them adopt the technology. Baby pictures can turn even grandma into a technology adopter.
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"Being a Dung Beetle looks like S**t job", Quote from my Mum! while a BBC nature prog was on featuring David Atenborough, while reading a book...
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