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Can't Keep Story Straight hmm
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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 427167" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>I don't like long extended talks on the phone at all, but I simply can't stand texting. For one thing I can only do like 5 words a minute - I don't have a keyboard on my cell, so I have to push the numbers repeatedly until the right letter comes up. Even if I did have a keyboard, my fingers are too fat and my eyesight too poor (even with bifocals) to type on those itty-bitty things. I don't get the concept either - why laboriously type out a message when you could use the phone the old-fashioned way and talk into it ten times faster? </p><p> </p><p>Of course we come from a generation that didn't have to be in contact with the outside world 24 X 7 - when you left the house, nobody could reach you until they saw you face to face or you were by one of those things with the handset that we used to call a "phone" (it's called a "land-line" now, and they are becoming as rare as the old rotary-dialed machines; I wonder if the kids even know why it's called "dialing" a number any more). "Leaving a message" wasn't voice-mail but an actual human grabbing a pencil and scrap of paper and jotting down "So & so called - call him back at 555-1212". </p><p> </p><p>As for FB and Twitter and MySpace, I don't do them at all. Just posting on CD takes up way too much time as it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 427167, member: 3485"] I don't like long extended talks on the phone at all, but I simply can't stand texting. For one thing I can only do like 5 words a minute - I don't have a keyboard on my cell, so I have to push the numbers repeatedly until the right letter comes up. Even if I did have a keyboard, my fingers are too fat and my eyesight too poor (even with bifocals) to type on those itty-bitty things. I don't get the concept either - why laboriously type out a message when you could use the phone the old-fashioned way and talk into it ten times faster? Of course we come from a generation that didn't have to be in contact with the outside world 24 X 7 - when you left the house, nobody could reach you until they saw you face to face or you were by one of those things with the handset that we used to call a "phone" (it's called a "land-line" now, and they are becoming as rare as the old rotary-dialed machines; I wonder if the kids even know why it's called "dialing" a number any more). "Leaving a message" wasn't voice-mail but an actual human grabbing a pencil and scrap of paper and jotting down "So & so called - call him back at 555-1212". As for FB and Twitter and MySpace, I don't do them at all. Just posting on CD takes up way too much time as it is. [/QUOTE]
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