Sunday morning I was putting the groceries in my trunk outside of the Nob Hill, in a car about three spaces over I can hear a guy inside of his car, with the windows up, just screaming at his wife. After a bit, the car door flies open, and the guy gets out, just screaming into the car at his wife. Now I hear a young girl in the backseat, crying hysterically and shouting something at her dad, but I couldn't make it out. She must be begging this [bleep] to stop screaming at her mother! This guy was hot, he was screaming profanity, pointing into the car, just losing it. I thought, well, this is none of my business, but if he starts punching on his wife, that is when I say enough! I felt terrible for the young girl in the backseat, thinking Mom and Dad need to cool it in front of the kid, and talk it out later. He slams the door, takes about five steps in my direction, then goes back and opens the door again, and screams F-You, I'm not paying $250, you can go F yourself. He walks past me and goes into the store. About this time I convince myself he'll calm down in the store, so I close the trunk, get in the car and leave. As I drive by their car, I look over, and there is a young girl sitting in the backseat, with her legs out of the car, crying "I NEED A PHONE, I NEED A PHONE!" My god, instant PTSD, it's the teenage girls- cell phone wars, suddenly I felt sick. You mean all of this chaos was because the daughter wants a new cell phone? I felt like turning the car around, going back into Nob Hill and finding the guy and giving him a big hug. Tell him "dude, just buy the phone, you are going to lose anyway. They will never accept no, they will never quit, they stay on you until you break down, they will eat you alive from the toes up until you buy that phone, let it go man, just get it over with, go buy the phone!"
My general observation is it's not just teenage girls, or just women for that matter, who have a phone addiction. Go to any restaurant and look at all the folks glued to their phones. Or people driving down the road. I refuse to deal with people at work until they hang up their phone. Grown ass men who act like teenage girls. I would imagine many here would throw a fit too if you took away their phone.
Teens? Starts earlier than that. 11-12 year olds say they are the only one in their class without a phone. Spell it simply. FLIP PHONE If they need a ride or are in danger, it works great.
If they want to go online, use a monitored computer. Do research at a library
Never met anybody that sucked dick for a better data plan
Apparently you've never seen any young hot woman with some old ass wrinkly rich dude. Or any of the professional hot chicks on Instagram that somehow spend tons of time on a yacht.
In 1980 my wife got a contract with Motorola to produce a radio frequency synthesizer for developing cell phones. In 1990 I was doing biz with a realtor that carried a cell phone the size of a brick. In 2000 I was at a wreck where I was the only one with a cell phone to call for help out of a dozen adult bystanders. In 2005 all 12 people would have had cell phones. In 2010 I had to get a better cell phone for my teeny bopper daughter so she could keep up with her friends. In 2015 my son spent a year writing video games and selling them for the Iphone. In 2018 I have property owner maps on my phone for hunting. My 2 year old grandson alway wants me to show him disney cartoons on my phone.
Barkoff: You handled that situation well - not getting involved unless angry words were to turn into an assault. This younger generation and their infatuation, no, enslavement to their smart phones will have consequences/ changes in the future of our society/country. I doubt the coming changes will be for the betterment. I was just out on the west coast where I saw a young (16 to 18 year old) girl walking down the street with a phone in each hand and she was typing away with a thumb on each phone - at the same time! Now I could not do that with ONE smart phone let alone walk along and type on TWO phones at the same time - maybe she was faking it - I don't know? Again modern technology is going to change a lot of things in the future both societal and in inter-personal relations. Wish I knew if it would be for good or for bad. Again good job standing by in case things got physical. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Have heard this gentleman speak twice on the subject of the impact of technology (mobile devices) on children and parents. While he does not provide peer reviewed, double blind, statistical analysis, he does provide some very eye opening correlations between mobile device growth (explosion) and teenage depression and sexuality, as well as dramatic increase in injuries to children 5 and under due to parental distraction / inattention.
The cell phone has definitely been one of the top inventions of my lifetime. We've had one for a very long time, and they were the size of a brick back then, with a 60 minute a month plan.......in other words, for emergency use only. I'm certain that they have helped saved many lives, and they help people out of bad situations on a daily basis. But, I'm still one of those who believe that they should be banned in schools, and maybe even an age restriction put on them.
Teens have enough going on in their lives, and cell phones can be, and are, a major distraction. Far too many teens have died in wrecks while using a phone, and phones provide an excellent way for teens to bully people, and spread lies and gossip on one another.
I'd hate to give mine up, but I'm sure I'd get over it.
It's a tool if you know how to use it. The threat of losing her phone keep A's on the report card. Her phone goes to the foyer table at 830 pm. There are no late night device watching in my home. No bedroom has a television and we ALL go to bed by 930.
As a side note, any man who pitches a fit and tells his teenage daughter to go eff herself, or tells his wife that in front of his teenage daughter, should probably be horsewhipped within three eights of an inch of his life for not being a man. Must have been quite a sorry sight.
Never met anybody that sucked dick for a better data plan
Apparently you've never seen any young hot woman with some old ass wrinkly rich dude. Or any of the professional hot chicks on Instagram that somehow spend tons of time on a yacht.
Pretty sure that's been going on since well before the cell phone.
My girlfriend's daughter brought her cell phone against advice on an October canoe trip. It got dunked, and I felt bad that I had advised the trip in the first place, so gave her $300 to apply toward a new one.
She soaked the old one in rice, got it half working, and is still using it to this day. She offered the money back to me, but I told her to keep it for one someday then. I'm sure she still has every cent.
In 1980 my wife got a contract with Motorola to produce a radio frequency synthesizer for developing cell phones. In 1990 I was doing biz with a realtor that carried a cell phone the size of a brick. In 2000 I was at a wreck where I was the only one with a cell phone to call for help out of a dozen adult bystanders. In 2005 all 12 people would have had cell phones. In 2010 I had to get a better cell phone for my teeny bopper daughter so she could keep up with her friends. In 2015 my son spent a year writing video games and selling them for the Iphone. In 2018 I have property owner maps on my phone for hunting. My 2 year old grandson alway wants me to show him disney cartoons on my phone.
2012 I started using a VPN to patch my iphone across the county to make live on-the-fly editing to our utility network file-geodatabase via Arc-Server, we have a dashboard app for such live editing now.
I had the brick phone about 1990 as well. Had the 'bag phone' starting about '88
I can remember in 1990 dollars, cell plans being about $129 for 100 minutes. Hahaha crazy shlt.
And hell, I guess my daughter has has her own cell phone since she was about 6, she's been driving on the farm here since she was about 9,10.
Not cellphone, but smartphones. They tweet about tweeting, they tweet about eating and sex and love and what Kim k is wearing. The truth is different times and different symptoms. All this technology has a negative side, I saw on Fox News that it contributes to people being lonely and not having real friends. The list goes on.
If you don't want the "current best" they are cheap. My wifes just dies, Galaxy S4 (current is S9!). We went in, told them she wants text, phone, internet, her games. We got one for $7/month for 2 years, or $168 upfront. Works great.
As a side note, any man who pitches a fit and tells his teenage daughter to go eff herself, or tells his wife that in front of his teenage daughter, should probably be horsewhipped within three eights of an inch of his life for not being a man. Must have been quite a sorry sight.
This! That man is a ticking time bomb with hatred in his heart toward his family. Devil possessed.
He needs to get on his knees and beg forgiveness from his wife and daughter.
Sunday morning I was putting the groceries in my trunk outside of the Nob Hill, in a car about three spaces over I can hear a guy inside of his car, with the windows up, just screaming at his wife. After a bit, the car door flies open, and the guy gets out, just screaming into the car at his wife. Now I hear a young girl in the backseat, crying hysterically and shouting something at her dad, but I couldn't make it out. She must be begging this [bleep] to stop screaming at her mother! This guy was hot, he was screaming profanity, pointing into the car, just losing it. I thought, well, this is none of my business, but if he starts punching on his wife, that is when I say enough! I felt terrible for the young girl in the backseat, thinking Mom and Dad need to cool it in front of the kid, and talk it out later. He slams the door, takes about five steps in my direction, then goes back and opens the door again, and screams F-You, I'm not paying $250, you can go F yourself. He walks past me and goes into the store. About this time I convince myself he'll calm down in the store, so I close the trunk, get in the car and leave. As I drive by their car, I look over, and there is a young girl sitting in the backseat, with her legs out of the car, crying "I NEED A PHONE, I NEED A PHONE!" My god, instant PTSD, it's the teenage girls- cell phone wars, suddenly I felt sick. You mean all of this chaos was because the daughter wants a new cell phone? I felt like turning the car around, going back into Nob Hill and finding the guy and giving him a big hug. Tell him "dude, just buy the phone, you are going to lose anyway. They will never accept no, they will never quit, they stay on you until you break down, they will eat you alive from the toes up until you buy that phone, let it go man, just get it over with, go buy the phone!"
PS: Having the desire to turn your car around and hug a strange man don't make you gay, but it sure as hell don't help. Good luck with that.
If you don't want the "current best" they are cheap. My wifes just dies, Galaxy S4 (current is S9!). We went in, told them she wants text, phone, internet, her games. We got one for $7/month for 2 years, or $168 upfront. Works great.
I used to work with an uber techy german guy, he would get a new phone, new ipad, latest-greatest macbook. He was one of those that go to the big city and stand in line at 3am to get it with all the other hipsters.
In 2 years, same thing all over.
He used to stick his head in my door and ask me if I wanted his previous model. Sure!!!
He'd upgrade again, I'd get his previous, then I'd give my daughter the one I had- and so on
I always offered to pay him something, he'd say nahh man I was just going to drop into the recycle bin. He'd wipe it, swap sims and do the icloud backup, transfer all my contacts. Hell of a deal
As a side note, any man who pitches a fit and tells his teenage daughter to go eff herself, or tells his wife that in front of his teenage daughter, should probably be horsewhipped within three eights of an inch of his life for not being a man. Must have been quite a sorry sight.
This! That man is a ticking time bomb with hatred in his heart toward his family. Devil possessed.
He needs to get on his knees and beg forgiveness from his wife and daughter.
"just keep needling him and we will get what we want....works every time!"
it's been a while with my no 1 grandson, he is married now with a kid and another on the way. but, while a teenager, we were at a movie theater waiting for the show to start. He kept going to his cell phone, texting one right after another. he would not answer the phone to have a verbal conversation. I asked him what was going on? He said, was talking to three different girl friends at the same time, none of which was aware of what he was doing. That's probably why he is flying those go fast jets in the air force these days. Sheer genious. He commented he could reply, ignore, whatever depending on how it was going.
Don't have a smart phone, got a dumb one(flip phone). When I want to call someone I turn it on and call them. Then I shut it off. The net it is on records the numbers of those that try to call me, so I can call back if I want too. GD phones are the rudest invention of mankind but handy at times. MB
I have a smartphone , But could care less about it. If it weren't for needing to read company e-mail at home I would just have a flip phone. I am appalled to watch people spend every minute craning their neck looking at Facebook. Many of the men I work with are addicted it is pathetic.
If traveling somewhere and not sure of the route. Program GiGi my to and from and she gives me audible turn-by navigation. *Can flash the screen and still take phone calls
Maybe you roof houses for a living, pour concrete or play golf and you want to work or play as long as you can. You can see live nexrad radar and progression and history of lightning intensity.
This is no different than any other addictive behavior- learn how to control yourself. When my sister gets some text notification on her phone, she'll stop everything she's doing and walk clear across the house to go see what it is. And if anyone is talking to her, you might as well shut up because she's not hearing a thing you say until she sees that text. On the other hand, I put my smart phone in the drawer at work and it sits there unless I hear the phone ring. And most of the time, I let it go to voicemail and check it later. People that insist on sending me 20 texts learn quickly that they will not get the instant gratification they are seeking. I'll let them text me for 5 minutes, then I may check it and reply "ok" LOL.
Or unless you want to be like the rest of the dolts sitting in some waiting room watching the Price is Right
I have DirecTV app on my phone. I can watch anything that I'm subscribed to at the house, on my phone from where ever I'm at. I can even talk to my DVR back at the house thru my app via my phone and set it up to record or manage files just while I'm sitting and waiting.
And since I'm and AT&T customer, and direct is now owned by ATT, I am entitled to HBO for life program.
And also since I been with AT&T for 20 years, I have unlimited data, no throttle till 22GB (not 2.2) and that's per phone. I have 6 on the plan.
People don't have to stare at their phone to text either. There's a microphone button, push that and you can speak voice-to-text, siri will type it and send it for you hands free.
I thought everybody knew that, and we're just dumb Tn inbred hayseeds. Yeah, OK
Even at work, our Leica geosystems robot would send me the .txt file, my phone would plot the x,y data into our dashboard arcgis editor master map via VPN back to the server
When I wasn't doing that, I had multiple screens open, even one with the 24hr Campfire. I could be standing in the middle of a 4 way intersection collectinrg a hard data point and reading and replying to some horse shlt on here. Hahaha
I'm not gonna watch a show on my damn phone and go blind. That's what a TV is for. And if you're gonna text me for 5 minutes, fugking call me. After 3 texts, with no end in sight, I stop responding. I like texts for last minute change of plans kind of stuff, but not as a substitute for having a plan.
Also, in all fairness, some people here that bitch about girls and their addictive behavior, probably spend 12 hours a day reading Campfire forum threads LOL. Bottom line, if your kid wants a phone and you don't agree, man up and say no.
Quite interesting how a bunch of old fcks with thousands upon thousands of forum posts to their names can be so opinionated about teenage girls and their cell phone habits..
Lot's of positive aspects to kids and their phones these days too....
Their every move and action and damn near thought is documented, photographed or video archived.
Many if not most minor/adult related sex crimes are discovered due to stored phone data and/or social media.
Even with the negative aspects being quite annoying at times the list of positive aspects is endless and possibly out weighs the negative.
I'm not gonna watch a show on my damn phone and go blind. That's what a TV is for. And if you're gonna text me for 5 minutes, fugking call me. After 3 texts, with no end in sight, I stop responding. I like texts for last minute change of plans kind of stuff, but not as a substitute for having a plan.
Haha
Mine is only for when I'm trapped somewhere. Still a 3"x6" screen. Aint too bad.
On the text thing. I got one bud, I'd rather text him vs talk to him on the phone. A couple of back and forths and he's done.
Otherwise, he likes to tell me about dumb stuff he's seen like a Lincoln town car with a trailer hitch hauling 4-1000 lb rolls of hay on an 18ft trailer. Like duuuuude!!!
Plus talking to him is exactly like having a conversation with Boomhauer from king of the hill. Jeeze!!! SMH lol
Even with the negative aspects being quite annoying at times the list of positive aspects is endless and possibly out weighs the negative.
For my enlightenment, please explain what positive outweighs being killed, or killing others, in a car wreck because they were texting or talking on the phone. It's probably obvious to you but could you just humor an old fart, please?
Quite interesting how a bunch of old fcks with thousands upon thousands of forum posts to their names can be so opinionated about teenage girls and their cell phone habits..
Lot's of positive aspects to kids and their phones these days too....
Their every move and action and damn near thought is documented, photographed or video archived.
Many if not most minor/adult related sex crimes are discovered due to stored phone data and/or social media.
Even with the negative aspects being quite annoying at times the list of positive aspects is endless and possibly out weighs the negative.
I have Share My Location enabled with my kids and them with me. Also when they send me a message, it maps to me their location. They disabled it we got probs.
Even with the negative aspects being quite annoying at times the list of positive aspects is endless and possibly out weighs the negative.
For my enlightenment, please explain what positive outweighs being killed, or killing others, in a car wreck because they were texting or talking on the phone. It's probably obvious to you but could you just humor an old fart, please?
Tom
I'm guessing you could ask a similar question about guns. Methinks the phone ain't the problem.
Hey deflave, A little off topic but this isn't your kid is it? He's in south Florida and seems to have a come from huge pool of smart azzed genes, it just got me wonderin'
Even with the negative aspects being quite annoying at times the list of positive aspects is endless and possibly out weighs the negative.
For my enlightenment, please explain what positive outweighs being killed, or killing others, in a car wreck because they were texting or talking on the phone. It's probably obvious to you but could you just humor an old fart, please?
This is no different than any other addictive behavior- learn how to control yourself. When my sister gets some text notification on her phone, she'll stop everything she's doing and walk clear across the house to go see what it is. And if anyone is talking to her, you might as well shut up because she's not hearing a thing you say until she sees that text. On the other hand, I put my smart phone in the drawer at work and it sits there unless I hear the phone ring. And most of the time, I let it go to voicemail and check it later. People that insist on sending me 20 texts learn quickly that they will not get the instant gratification they are seeking. I'll let them text me for 5 minutes, then I may check it and reply "ok" LOL.
ROFL! If you really want to light them up, after their 20 texts, txt back "who is this?"
Sunday morning I was putting the groceries in my trunk outside of the Nob Hill, in a car about three spaces over I can hear a guy inside of his car, with the windows up, just screaming at his wife. After a bit, the car door flies open, and the guy gets out, just screaming into the car at his wife. Now I hear a young girl in the backseat, crying hysterically and shouting something at her dad, but I couldn't make it out. She must be begging this [bleep] to stop screaming at her mother! This guy was hot, he was screaming profanity, pointing into the car, just losing it. I thought, well, this is none of my business, but if he starts punching on his wife, that is when I say enough! I felt terrible for the young girl in the backseat, thinking Mom and Dad need to cool it in front of the kid, and talk it out later. He slams the door, takes about five steps in my direction, then goes back and opens the door again, and screams F-You, I'm not paying $250, you can go F yourself. He walks past me and goes into the store. About this time I convince myself he'll calm down in the store, so I close the trunk, get in the car and leave. As I drive by their car, I look over, and there is a young girl sitting in the backseat, with her legs out of the car, crying "I NEED A PHONE, I NEED A PHONE!" My god, instant PTSD, it's the teenage girls- cell phone wars, suddenly I felt sick. You mean all of this chaos was because the daughter wants a new cell phone? I felt like turning the car around, going back into Nob Hill and finding the guy and giving him a big hug. Tell him "dude, just buy the phone, you are going to lose anyway. They will never accept no, they will never quit, they stay on you until you break down, they will eat you alive from the toes up until you buy that phone, let it go man, just get it over with, go buy the phone!"
PS: Having the desire to turn your car around and hug a strange man don't make you gay, but it sure as hell don't help. Good luck with that.
Thought that marathon Steelhead blasting few months back might have straightened you out some, should have known better, you're still a dick.
Cell phones have their place! I do lots of business on the phone. The kids and grandkids have evolved where they have a permanent grip. I have a rule when their at my house, phones can only be answered, no out going calls, no you tube, no games ect. If that don't work go home! I got tired of the phone bs about a year ago, only had to send them home once.
I'll tell you what, google maps is 100% better than the old map books we had when I first started driving for a living, looking back now, those old Thomas books are a bad joke.
I have to wonder if the guy was that much of a jerk or if he had just had enough badgering by his females. Either way he is off the rails. As a side note, I was an elementary school teacher for many years. I remember being on bus duty and going to unlock the front doors to start the day. Standing just outside were a group of 5 middle school girls standing in a circle. The thing that caught my attention was that they were not talking to one another. They were all texting on their cell phones.
I have to wonder if the guy was that much of a jerk or if he had just had enough badgering by his females. Either way he is off the rails. As a side note, I was an elementary school teacher for many years. I remember being on bus duty and going to unlock the front doors to start the day. Standing just outside were a group of 5 middle school girls standing in a circle. The thing that caught my attention was that they were not talking to one another. They were all texting on their cell phones.
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