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I told her I don't see myself getting a cell phone until next year and she was like it's no way she can date a guy and can't contact him during the day. We had just met last night online and she was pretty and now just rather we be friends-lol
HOw did people date in 1989 without a cell phone??
I told her I don't see myself getting a cell phone until next year and she was like it's no way she can date a guy and can't contact him during the day. We had just met last night online and she was pretty and now just rather we be friends-lol
HOw did people date in 1989 without a cell phone??
Things were different then.
Sometimes I wonder how parents survived their kids' teen years before the age of cell phones.
Other times, I think they had it easier: sometimes it's better not to know where your kid is and what he's doing every second, better not to have to freak out and have panic attacks every time you call and he doesn't immediately answer his phone.
I think the same is probably true for other relationships.
I've become so cell-dependent that if my husband goes to the store and is gone more than twenty minutes or so, I'll start texting and calling him.
If he doesn't immediately pick up, I automatically begin to assume the worst: that he's been in a car accident or something.
Of course, he always returns home safely.
I think maybe all relationships were more laid-back and less stressful before we all had access to technology which allows us (and therefore requires us) to be in contact every single minute, or to account for every single minute that we aren't in contact (how many times a week are we asked "Why weren't you answering your cell when I called??")
On the other hand, cell phones have undeniably saved lives, in isolated instances.
Things were different then.
Sometimes I wonder how parents survived their kids' teen years before the age of cell phones.
Other times, I think they had it easier: sometimes it's better not to know where your kid is and what he's doing every second, better not to have to freak out and have panic attacks every time you call and he doesn't immediately answer his phone.
I think the same is probably true for other relationships.
I've become so cell-dependent that if my husband goes to the store and is gone more than twenty minutes or so, I'll start texting and calling him.
If he doesn't immediately pick up, I automatically begin to assume the worst: that he's been in a car accident or something.
Of course, he always returns home safely.
I think maybe all relationships were more laid-back and less stressful before we all had access to technology which allows us (and therefore requires us) to be in contact every single minute, or to account for every single minute that we aren't in contact (how many times a week are we asked "Why weren't you answering your cell when I called??")
On the other hand, cell phones have undeniably saved lives, in isolated instances.
Well I'm defintely not a buying a cell until the spring of 2010 so I guess I will have to become a full-time fetishist until then
They "survived" somehow! Some of us made it even up until 4 years ago and can do it again.
Wow... somebody like you would drive me NUTS!
Oh, it gets worse.
One night, my son was spending the night out, and turned off his ringer.
When he got home, he showed me his missed calls, where it said I had called him 76 times over a period of about 9 hours.
I didn't even realize I had done it!
I would've guessed I'd called him about a dozen times, maybe less.
I guess sometimes when I get worried about somebody and they're not answering, I just sit there compulsively hitting redial over and over, without really realizing I'm doing it (or at least not realizing how often I'm doing it).
That "76 missed calls" thing was a wake-up for me... I'm seriously trying to make an effort not to be so bothersome to my loved ones lately.
The phone part of my phone, actually a pocket pc, is my least fav part of it. I leave my ringer off most of the days and often leave my phone in my car or room. I never liked talking on the phone much. the invention of texting was great for me. If I could have a text only phone it'd be perfect.
I told her I don't see myself getting a cell phone until next year and she was like it's no way she can date a guy and can't contact him during the day. We had just met last night online and she was pretty and now just rather we be friends-lol
HOw did people date in 1989 without a cell phone??
This girl is a controlling nut. Good that you found out right away.
I told her I don't see myself getting a cell phone until next year and she was like it's no way she can date a guy and can't contact him during the day. We had just met last night online and she was pretty and now just rather we be friends-lol
HOw did people date in 1989 without a cell phone??
Back then most people had actual communication skills. Now it is mostly superficial.
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Some of us made it even up until 4 years ago and can do it again.
