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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 609695" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Accessibility of phone of course depends greatly from area you are and your lifestyle. For example me and mine are more than capable of getting trouble without access to other people and their phones because of where we live and some lifestyle choices. Of course, when my idget boy last time decided to get into big trouble in place without easy access to phones, he had left his own phone behind and so there was well over 50 people dragged out of their beds to drive around and look for him and search and rescue and boarder patrol with helicopters and thermal cameras were almost ready to start looking for him, when he was found. </p><p></p><p>Though our difficult child pays his own phone and it wouldn't be much a problem anyway, because while we do pay much more for food and even more for gas, it seems that phone service and internet are something we get cheaper and easier than most of you in the NA. Pre paid plans are readily available for anyone and are affordable (when our kids were younger and had pre paids to teach them to use phone, we put about ten bucks a month to their accounts and that went a long way) and if you don't have black marks in your credit, also normal plans are available and not that expensive. For example my plan is about 15 dollars a month, 2M unlimited data and couple hours talk and 50 SMS and if I need more talk time or texts, they don't cost that much. And with couple bucks more, I would get a lot more talk time and texts to my packet. Whole system is different around here. We tend to buy our phones and our plans separately so actual plans are affordable and there is a great differences in prices of the phones. Anything from 20 bucks to the grand.</p><p></p><p>When considering the accessibility of phone to our difficult children, one also have to remember that when asking to use someone else's or some business's phone, it can be a very different situation for middle aged, respectably looking lady and the 20 something street kid (especially young men.) Could of course be different in NA, but around here people tend to be much more wary of loaning their phones to shabby looking people who appear intoxicated and wear dirty clothes and smell especially at the night time than they would be to clean and sober looking person during lunch hours.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 609695, member: 14557"] Accessibility of phone of course depends greatly from area you are and your lifestyle. For example me and mine are more than capable of getting trouble without access to other people and their phones because of where we live and some lifestyle choices. Of course, when my idget boy last time decided to get into big trouble in place without easy access to phones, he had left his own phone behind and so there was well over 50 people dragged out of their beds to drive around and look for him and search and rescue and boarder patrol with helicopters and thermal cameras were almost ready to start looking for him, when he was found. Though our difficult child pays his own phone and it wouldn't be much a problem anyway, because while we do pay much more for food and even more for gas, it seems that phone service and internet are something we get cheaper and easier than most of you in the NA. Pre paid plans are readily available for anyone and are affordable (when our kids were younger and had pre paids to teach them to use phone, we put about ten bucks a month to their accounts and that went a long way) and if you don't have black marks in your credit, also normal plans are available and not that expensive. For example my plan is about 15 dollars a month, 2M unlimited data and couple hours talk and 50 SMS and if I need more talk time or texts, they don't cost that much. And with couple bucks more, I would get a lot more talk time and texts to my packet. Whole system is different around here. We tend to buy our phones and our plans separately so actual plans are affordable and there is a great differences in prices of the phones. Anything from 20 bucks to the grand. When considering the accessibility of phone to our difficult children, one also have to remember that when asking to use someone else's or some business's phone, it can be a very different situation for middle aged, respectably looking lady and the 20 something street kid (especially young men.) Could of course be different in NA, but around here people tend to be much more wary of loaning their phones to shabby looking people who appear intoxicated and wear dirty clothes and smell especially at the night time than they would be to clean and sober looking person during lunch hours. [/QUOTE]
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