Okay! Get Your Nose Out of That Phone! :)

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:20 am

So I'm waiting to pick Jake up at school. All of us who's children are "car riders" have to wait in the cafeteria until the bell rings and they let the children out. I'm a people person, I like talking to people. I usually start up a conversation with somebody wherever I am. I usually have a little group of others...3 0r 4 who sit with me and we have a great time chatting and laughing about stuff or whatever. Yesterday as it happened, none of them were there. So I'm sitting there watching the other people. A girl came in, sat down, out came the phone out of her pocket and there she was with her nose stuck in it. Another one came in, sat down, out came the phone, and another, and another and another. Then a guy who was sitting over to one sides phone rang so then he was talking on one too! Everyone looked so separated like they were in there own little bubble. I'm afraid we are losing the art of conversation, in the future will we only be able to have a conversation by texting?

Post by **jones jones** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:34 am

Hope6;1450646 wrote: So I'm waiting to pick Jake up at school. All of us who's children are "car riders" have to wait in the cafeteria until the bell rings and they let the children out. I'm a people person, I like talking to people. I usually start up a conversation with somebody wherever I am. I usually have a little group of others...3 0r 4 who sit with me and we have a great time chatting and laughing about stuff or whatever. Yesterday as it happened, none of them were there. So I'm sitting there watching the other people. A girl came in, sat down, out came the phone out of her pocket and there she was with her nose stuck in it. Another one came in, sat down, out came the phone, and another, and another and another. Then a guy who was sitting over to one sides phone rang so then he was talking on one too! Everyone looked so separated like they were in there own little bubble. I'm afraid we are losing the art of conversation, in the future will we only be able to have a conversation by texting?

No doubt about it Georgia. I have been to restaurants for breakfast, lunch & suppers & at every time I have seen couples sitting near me who ignore each other while they poke at their smart phones and i-pads. Its sad because if you have nothing at all to say to someone you're going to share a meal with then who the hell are you ever gonna speak to?

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:35 am

Have you thought they might have been texting each other about you ?

It is a way of covering their own poor social skills I am sure.

It is difficult these days to see a group of people that at least one or two are not 'on the phone' texting or playing some mind numbing game.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:07 am

You are exactly right Jj. I wonder if they are the same way at home, each doing there own thing, that's very sad.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:09 am

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl Bruv! that is so funny!

No they never even looked up at me when they walked into the room, they had there heads down and they went straight to their phones. You may be right maybe they don't feel comfortable talking to people face to face, they may have poor social skills.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:29 am

Yup. it seems that the more connected we become, the more isolated we are from each other.

Bill Moyers had a show recently talking about that:

http://billmoyers.com/segment/sherry-tu ... -together/

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:15 am

If I am In company where someone can't stop looking at their phone, I walk away.

I don't care what It's called theses days, technology, progress, blah blah... I call It ' ********** rude !!!

I don't even know my own mobile number, that's how little I use It. I don't need It because my life Is organised. I am not so Insecure that I have to check social sites to see how many 'likes' I've got on my 34th selfie that I've posted that day. I have no need either to document every waking moment of my life by mobile photographing. I have visitors... remember them ? People that come round your house because they want to see you and talk to you. Likewise we visit people we want to talk to.

What If I have an emergency when out I hear some people cry... easy, I grab the nearest passer by's mobile phone,

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:02 pm

For over two years I did the Over The Road driving thing. Because it offered the most home time (2-3 days out of a month) I worked for a company which required co-drivers.

I’ll spare you my tails of being cooped up in a truck, 24/7 with a stranger. Let’s just say even under the best of circumstances, for both of us, it is stressful.

In those two years, I had several co-drivers, most of which spent much of their time on the phone. Hours and hours I learned way more than I ever cared to know of their lives.

Myself, I made a point to call Mrs. Dog every day. 5-10 minutes max.

I don’t get it, the need to just chat, chat, yakky yack, , ,

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:06 pm

What ever happened to rubber ducking and all that ?

kayleneaussie · Post by **kayleneaussie** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:28 pm

My phone is for emergency only..another thing that is kinda sad is letter writing....I cant remember when I last received a letter and I must admit I am guilty of not writing letters but have decided to put pen to paper and see what happens:-6

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:32 pm

kayleneaussie;1450702 wrote: My phone is for emergency only..another thing that is kinda sad is letter writing....I cant remember when I last received a letter and I must admit I am guilty of not writing letters but have decided to put pen to paper and see what happens:-6 Good for you Kay.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:58 pm

tude dog;1450700 wrote:

I’ll spare you my tails of being cooped up in a truck, 24/7 with a stranger.

Hope that was a Freudian slip

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sat Mar 22, 2014 2:02 pm

kayleneaussie;1450702 wrote: I am guilty of not writing letters but have decided to put pen to paper and see what happens:-6
Inky fingers?

But seriously.....my sister in law writes a nice letter to update us about her corner of the world occasionally. I feel it only right to return the favour, and enjoy it.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:05 pm

Oscar I'm like you, it took me a long time before I finally learned my own cell phone number. I seem to remember a time when we didn't have cell phones, how on earth did we survive!

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:49 pm

tude what happened to CB radios?

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:54 pm

tude dog;1450700 wrote: For over two years I did the Over The Road driving thing. Because it offered the most home time (2-3 days out of a month) I worked for a company which required co-drivers.

I’ll spare you my tails of being cooped up in a truck, 24/7 with a stranger. Let’s just say even under the best of circumstances, for both of us, it is stressful.

In those two years, I had several co-drivers, most of which spent much of their time on the phone. Hours and hours I learned way more than I ever cared to know of their lives.

Myself, I made a point to call Mrs. Dog every day. 5-10 minutes max.

I don’t get it, the need to just chat, chat, yakky yack, , ,

I drove in the mid-late 70s. We didn't have cell phones, then.

Though my partner spent most of his waking time in the truck on the CB, and it mattered not whether he was at the wheel or shotgun.

Me, I might talk a bit when driving, usually about weather, and road conditions, and such, but I tended try and pay attention to what was going on out there on the road, rather than socializing.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:13 am

Hope6;1450853 wrote: Oscar I'm like you, it took me a long time before I finally learned my own cell phone number. I seem to remember a time when we didn't have cell phones, how on earth did we survive!

It's not a case of not learning It Hope. I could If I needed to. I have no reason to have a mobile phone. I don't want a mobile phone. If people need me, then they can call my landline at a time that suits me, not when they dictate. EG, The taxi driver who does the school runs with me when I escort children In transit gets calls all the time on the journeys. Some of those people know he Is mid school run with a brain damaged child In the car on a motorway and expect him to answer and have a conversation. I simply do not give anyone In my life to put me In that position and why I never take my phone anywhere with me.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:03 am

Phones can be turned off.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:25 am

Bruv;1450864 wrote: Phones can be turned off. True but why should I or anyone else have to keep turning It on and off every hour or so ?

You want me ? Phone my Land line at a time that suits me... likewise, If I want you, I'll have the curtesy to phone you when It's a suitable time for you. It's called consideration.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 11:36 am

McOscar;1450865 wrote: True but why should I or anyone else have to keep turning It on and off every hour or so ?

You want me ? Phone my Land line at a time that suits me... likewise, If I want you, I'll have the curtesy to phone you when It's a suitable time for you. It's called consideration.

I carry mine with me all the time - the one time I turned it off I missed a call telling me my father had been rushed into hospital after collapsing.

That doesn't mean I have to use it or accept any incoming call I might receive.

I've just checked the message counters and I'm very surprised to see that I've received just over seven hundred and I've sent nearly five hundred texts but I've had this 'phone for years (did you know that when your SIM reaches ten year old it deactivates itself and they have to send you a replacement?).

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:07 pm

Bryn Mawr;1450870 wrote: I carry mine with me all the time - the one time I turned it off I missed a call telling me my father had been rushed into hospital after collapsing.

That doesn't mean I have to use it or accept any incoming call I might receive.

I've just checked the message counters and I'm very surprised to see that I've received just over seven hundred and I've sent nearly five hundred texts but I've had this 'phone for years (did you know that when your SIM reaches ten year old it deactivates itself and they have to send you a replacement?). And I bet you felt guilty ? But surely you had good reason to have It turned off at the time.

I do have some sort of back up system I suppose. I'm In and out of the house all the time and my husbands health means he's home much of the time except when we're out together and then he'll have his mobile phone with him. Because I'm In and out, my secretary Peter Lake takes my calls for me. He always knows where I am so should a real emergency present It'self then he can contact the building or the people I'm with.

Strangely, one of my brothers Is exactly the same as me and loathes them also. He still uses his original Nokia phone the size of a house brick.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:11 am

I used to just have my cell phones for an emergency then I became a mom. Now I have my phone at all times in case the school needs to call me and I'm not at home.

KittyKatKaylaRae · Post by **KittyKatKaylaRae** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:50 pm

You guy's want to know something worse?

We, my family decided to go to a fancy restaurant that is far away and super expensive and all the kids there did was play on there phones!

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:14 pm

KittyKatKaylaRae;1450927 wrote: You guy's want to know something worse?

We, my family decided to go to a fancy restaurant that is far away and super expensive and all the kids there did was play on there phones! And In a few years time those parents will be whining that their kids never talk to them.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:02 pm

I think it's very, very rude to be on your phone at a restaurant.