Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:44:07 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>> I urge my wife to take it once in a while but she is not
>>> interested.
>>>
>> I understand. Just tonight I asked my daughter whether I should
>> bring the phone upstairs with me at night. My norm has been to
>> keep it downstairs, perhaps recharging, but mainly because I don't
>> want to hear it, etc. BUT this is probably not the wisest
>> practice, especially as we get older.
>>
>> Of course, you have a tangible reason for having your phone with you.
>
> Same reason my wife has one. Broker her ankle on the way to the
> mailbox and had to wait and hope a passing car would see her. If you
> have any health concerns, it is cheap insurance to carry a phone.

Well, I also think that as one gets older, it is wiser to be
prepared for all contingencies.

--
Jean B.

On 5/22/2012 10:45 PM, gregz wrote:
> > wrote:
>> On 5/21/2012 9:53 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 21/05/2012 5:55 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Of course, you have a tangible reason for having your phone with you.
>>>>
>>>> Same reason my wife has one. Broker her ankle on the way to the
>>>> mailbox and had to wait and hope a passing car would see her. If you
>>>> have any health concerns, it is cheap insurance to carry a phone.
>>>
>>> That's the main reason I use mine. I found out the hard way that you can
>>> have a serious, life threatening condition and be unaware of it. I carry
>>> mine in case I have to call for help. It is also handy if I am out
>>> shopping and need to call home to check on something. Pay phones are no
>>> longer a dime, and they are few and far between.
>>
>> This has to be at least 5 years ago. The display on my phone went funky.
>> I planned to get it replaced later that morning. I was out and needed to
>> make a local call. I found a pay phone and it told me I needed to deposit
>> something like $1.85 to make a local call. Now it is unusual to even see a pay phone.
>>
>> And everyone is focusing on texting. Sometimes it is really handy to be
>> able to send a picture of something to someone else (picture is worth a thousand words).
>
> My first digital AT&T phone, was on a $10 month plan, came with unlimited
> texting, but no minutes. But, not many people were texting then.
>
> Greg

I worked at a place then where everyone had pagers. The cellular
networks were getting pretty good back then and we used the phones to
replace the pagers. We were on a carrier that morphed into Verizon.
Messaging had no additional cost because it basically has almost no cost
to the carrier. At some point much later on they started charging
$0.02/message.

On 2012-05-23, George > wrote:

> Messaging had no additional cost because it basically has almost no cost
> to the carrier. At some point much later on they started charging
> $0.02/message.

I thought, at one point, they were charging by the letter.

nb

On 5/23/2012 6:38 PM, George wrote:

> I worked at a place then where everyone had pagers. The cellular
> networks were getting pretty good back then and we used the phones to
> replace the pagers. We were on a carrier that morphed into Verizon.
> Messaging had no additional cost because it basically has almost no cost
> to the carrier. At some point much later on they started charging
> $0.02/message.

Pagers. Yup, had one for work back in the day, too. Wasn't just for
drug dealers. I even bought one for my son because I wanted to
contact him whenever I needed to know where he was. Seems like ages ago.
I'd bet kids now have never seen them.

On 5/22/2012 11:37 PM, Jean B. wrote:

> Well, I also think that as one gets older, it is wiser to be prepared
> for all contingencies.

When my dad passed away us kids got our mom a security system in the
house for some peace of mind. There was an option to have one of those
pendents where you push a button if you need help (Help, I've fallen and
can't get up!). She says she religiously wears it around the house. For
a while she'd wear it everywhere until she told me that, and I told her
it only worked within range of the brains of the system.

On 5/21/2012 9:08 AM, George wrote:
> On 5/21/2012 5:58 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:42:14 -0700, > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> You must give out your phone number like a business card if that
>>> happens.
>>
>> That is why it ****es me off. I never give out my number. It is not
>> hard for a sleazy marketing company to get the numbers though. Or to
>> use a programmed dialer.
>
> The SPAMers are never going to go away unless it starts costing real
> money to them instead of the recipient to send their SPAM.

It even costs us to forward those SPAM texts to unless you
have an unlimited data plan. But be assured that those of you who do
forward them, they *are* read and categorized for investigations.

On Fri, 25 May 2012 02:56:52 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:01:31 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>
>> Pagers. Yup, had one for work back in the day, too. Wasn't just for
>> drug dealers. I even bought one for my son because I wanted to
>> contact him whenever I needed to know where he was. Seems like ages ago.
>> I'd bet kids now have never seen them.
>
>Companies were still passing them out in 2001-2002. I still have a
>few from Tandem and Compaq. Nobody pages me anymore. Maybe I should
>check the batteries...
>
>Cops were still using them a couple years ago to get broadcast alerts.

Their still in use in hospitals as of yesterday.

Lou

On 5/26/2012 12:09 AM, Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2012 02:56:52 -0500, >
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 May 2012 01:01:31 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>>
>>> Pagers. Yup, had one for work back in the day, too. Wasn't just for
>>> drug dealers. I even bought one for my son because I wanted to
>>> contact him whenever I needed to know where he was. Seems like ages ago.
>>> I'd bet kids now have never seen them.
>>
>> Companies were still passing them out in 2001-2002. I still have a
>> few from Tandem and Compaq. Nobody pages me anymore. Maybe I should
>> check the batteries...
>>
>> Cops were still using them a couple years ago to get broadcast alerts.
>
> Their still in use in hospitals as of yesterday.
>
> Lou

Buy dying off quickly. One of the things that kept pagers in use was
hospital cell phone restrictions. So even though all of the visiting
docs/medical providers had cellphones they also needed to carry a pager.
None of our local hospitals have cell phone restrictions anymore.

Cheryl wrote:
> On 5/22/2012 11:37 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>
>> Well, I also think that as one gets older, it is wiser to be prepared
>> for all contingencies.
>
> When my dad passed away us kids got our mom a security system in the
> house for some peace of mind. There was an option to have one of those
> pendents where you push a button if you need help (Help, I've fallen and
> can't get up!). She says she religiously wears it around the house. For
> a while she'd wear it everywhere until she told me that, and I told her
> it only worked within range of the brains of the system.

Ah. I am not ready for that but will try to store away that factoid.

--
Jean B.

On 2012-05-27, Jean B. > wrote:
> Cheryl wrote:
>> On 5/22/2012 11:37 PM, Jean B. wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I also think that as one gets older, it is wiser to be prepared
>>> for all contingencies.
>>
>> When my dad passed away us kids got our mom a security system in the
>> house for some peace of mind. There was an option to have one of those
>> pendents where you push a button if you need help (Help, I've fallen and
>> can't get up!). She says she religiously wears it around the house. For
>> a while she'd wear it everywhere until she told me that, and I told her
>> it only worked within range of the brains of the system.
>
> Ah. I am not ready for that but will try to store away that factoid.

Often, the hardware is not purchased, but leased. When I moved out
here to care for my mom, she had one of those emergency thingies, but
she never wore/used it. From the minute I arrived till about 8 mos
later when I finally found and returned the h/w, I was pestered
incessently by the provider.

nb


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notbob wrote:
>
> On 2012-05-27, Jean B. > wrote:
> > Cheryl wrote:
> >> On 5/22/2012 11:37 PM, Jean B. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, I also think that as one gets older, it is wiser to be prepared
> >>> for all contingencies.
> >>
> >> When my dad passed away us kids got our mom a security system in the
> >> house for some peace of mind. There was an option to have one of those
> >> pendents where you push a button if you need help (Help, I've fallen and
> >> can't get up!). She says she religiously wears it around the house. For
> >> a while she'd wear it everywhere until she told me that, and I told her
> >> it only worked within range of the brains of the system.
> >
> > Ah. I am not ready for that but will try to store away that factoid.
>
> Often, the hardware is not purchased, but leased. When I moved out
> here to care for my mom, she had one of those emergency thingies, but
> she never wore/used it. From the minute I arrived till about 8 mos
> later when I finally found and returned the h/w, I was pestered
> incessently by the provider.
>
> nb

Nowadays with the prevelant cell phones, I would think that those emergency
button things are obsolete. Just carry a cell phone with you everwhere and
it works everywhere. I wish I had had one that night I was stuck sitting on
the toilet all night.

Gary

Gary