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Default [OT] Life after cell phone

jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 5/3/2016 7:23 PM, cshenk wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> > > On 5/3/2016 4:17 PM, William wrote:
> >>>On 3 May 2016 13:21:04 GMT, notbob > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I don't usually post off-topic, but this time.....
> > > > >
> > > > > I let my cell phone acct lapse ....on purpose! Gee, I don't
> > > > > miss it one bit. I have no more cell phone capability, but I
> > > > > still have the device and it works pretty dang good, w/o the
> > > > > phone part.
> > > > >
> > > > > nb
> > > >
> > > > before Thomas Edison created the General Electric Corporation,
> > > > he invented electric light bulbs. Alot of people around the
> > > > country refused to use them prefering their oil lamps and
> > > > candles to light their homes at night. There were many who
> > > > refused to pay $600 bucks for one of Henry Ford's Model "T"
> > > > Automobiles when they came out.
> > > >
> > > > Once they died off, their decendents saw these products as
> > > > necessities of life.
> > > >
> > > > William
> > > >
> > > >
> > > It's not the same thing. I haven't had a cell phone for years. I
> > > haven't missed it.
> > >
> > > Jill

> >
> > In a wierdness here a landline costs 140$ a month so we got rid of
> > that.
> >
> >

> Not that it matters to anyone else but I have to have a land line for
> the required security system. I didn't see any point in having the
> extra expense of a cell phone bill, too. I do not like talking on
> the phone.
>
> Jill


Makes perfect sense to me!

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