On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:25:52 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Alan Holbrook wrote:
>>
>> Sqwertz > wrote in
>> :
>>
>> >
>> > Most people have to unlock their phone and get to their app which can
>> > take up to 10 keypresses and various swipes. And then they'll also
>> > need to check for any of various messages. Nobody just presses ONE
>> > button on their cell phone.
>> >
>> > Sorry, I'm not buying it.
>> >
>> > -sw
>> >
>>
>> If it takes you 10 keypresses and various swipes to get at an app then
>> you're using the wrong phone or simply don't know how to use the one you
>> have. It takes me one swipe and two keypresses to bring my list up the
>> first time I access it, which I do before entering the store, then just one
>> swipe each time the phone times out. LOTS of people just press ONE button.
>
>So you are one of those people with a phone glued to your hand?
>
>I use a paper list. I glance at it once or twice in the store to make
>sure I haven't forgotten anything. I don't need to hold my phone
>constantly and touch a button when it times out. How silly.
>
>I have NEVER seen a person using a phone in any store except for
>talking on it. I don't understand that obscession either. I've never
>seen one just looking at it, either texting or looking at some silly
>e-list. My paper list doesn't lose power....ever. Remember sf had
>that "phone losing power" problem when she got her first smart phone.
>Didn't she need to carry an extra battery around?

I've used a paper list all my life, why tamper with perfection... I
keep a note pad and pencil in my kitchen, makes it easy to jot down
stuff I want to buy at the moment it occurs to me, seems very stupid
to need to remember to type it into a phone later, most times later
never comes, the item gets forgotten and never gets typed. I see
people on phones everytime I shop (actually I hear them first), they
talk so loud and such stupidity... everyone in the store needs to know
that Emily is knocked up and doesn't know if it's her step brother
Tommy's or grandpa Zacks's... we're hoping it's Grandpa Zack's, Tommy
doesn't work but grandpa owns the farm.