Phone frustration

[Ozz]

I just want to know how to make a phone call
Wireless phones, everyone and their 12 year old kid has one, the 12 year old knows 10 times more about it’s functions, I would guess.
I need certain things, it has to make calls, receive calls, and take messages if I am in a noisy bar and can’t hear it. All this can be explained to me in a single page of instructions.
OK, I got a few extras, the walkie-talkie for instant back and forth with a person or group(s) and a vibrate when in meetings (or in the bar) mode. To get these features, I had to get a phone that has a 220 page instruction book on how to operate all the different operations in this gizmo.
It almost seems it was the product of some super-geek, who won a bet at the malt shop from his (or her) peers where they meet and compare pocket protectors. My hat’s off to them. It takes a M.I.T. scholar to understand this stuff.
You can take movies, even with a small spotlight, record conversations and grocery lists, Java apps. whatever that is, has GPS, a date book, call waiting, 2 phone lines, text messaging, e-mail, Internet, hands free, and on and on.
Many times I accidentally hit one of the buttons and something doesn’t work. I had to super-glue one of the buttons so it wouldn’t get pushed when I am rolling around on the floor fixing a furnace or air conditioner. Sometimes the phone calls someone, it’s kind of an adventure, I get to talk with people I haven’t seen for a while, still don’t know how that happens.
The Geeks think of everything, there are two digit codes, I guess as shortcuts, just press # or * and the code. Now I have to try and remember the codes, phone numbers and how to call them. Never have used that.
I can’t even see the screen without my reading glasses, one of the features they are proud of is caller ID, by the time I get the phone out of the holster, find my reading glasses and get them on, the thing went to voice mail message, then I have to pull off the road and spend 5 minutes figuring that out.
I guess the skinny smart kid with the pocket protector, I made fun of in high school gets the last laugh…..

[bncinwv]

Ha Ha!! But you have to admit it is better than party lines!!! My teens don't believe me when I tell them that you could pick up the phone and someone else would be on it and you would have to wait!! Technology or the Good Old Days, glad we don't have to choose!
Bingo

[NCFischers]

I'll go for the happy median between Ozz and Bingo.

[Trailer Trash 2]

Hay Ozz I ruined a very good Mortorla by rolling over on it while I was working under the trucks dash, and yes it was in its leather holder I broke the LCD Cristal by to much weight on it on the roll. I have problems with my phone to, all I do is call up the provider on my home phone and have them walk me through the problem thats what they get paid for.
I also carry around one of those Geeks in my left rear pocket.

[radioattic]

I'm with you, Ozz. I put my sim card into an old Nokia phone with NO flip-lid, NO internet, NO texting, and NO camera. Still works fine for its intended purpose.

[Ozz]

Dang Steve, I didn't know you could do that! I have a few old phones around, I may do some experimenting.

[radioattic]

I had three old phones in a drawer; the sim card worked in only one of them.

But that's all I needed!

[Emmel]

Heh Ozz, the best thing about it was that you pulled to the side of the road to answer it!

[Waynem]

What's a sim card? (Just kidding)

I'll have to try that. I have a box full of old phones. One time I had two cell phones with the same phone number, and both worked. I used them both for over a year.

Talk about getting confused!