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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that.
So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
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Kinda wondering why, having called the land line, you don't just talk to her there and then!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I do, but sometimes you gotta send your mom a picture over a text.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: sometimes you gotta
No, you don't.
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Ah, I keep forgetting that when people say phone they don't mean phone. It's an age thing!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yeah man, if you can't play video games on it, then it's not a phone. 
Jeremy Falcon
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My parents use their cell phone only when they're out. I never call it unless they're visiting us.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: My parents use their cell phone only when they're out.
It's the same thing with mine. She'll keep it on while at work too, but when home expect it to be off.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: I never call it unless they're visiting us.
No comment.  I'm sorta the same way... sorta. I'll call if I need something. Ya know, because I care.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why call them if they're visiting? Why not just speak to them face to face? 
/ravi
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Because they don't stay with us and like to explore on their own.
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If you humbly admit that your house is very big, nobody will accuse you of bragging.
Life is too shor
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: My parents use their cell phone only when they're out. I never call it unless they're visiting us.
?? - if they are visiting you, why don't you just talk directly to him/her/them?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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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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