Terminalcoffee discussion

Luckily, my review session today isn't until 5, so I can go back after my last class and get it, but still ugh. 5 whole hours without my phone!

How do you feel after you've left your phone at home? Do you feel naked? I feel naked. Or do you not care?

I don't like it at all. Even though I don't use it much, I like knowing that I can be reached if there's an emergency.

i like having my phone with me, but when i know i will be with other people the whole time, who will have their phones with them, i will leave it at home.

I forget mine frequently, but I don't care.

I'm probably the only person that doesn't own a phone at the moment.

I only mind if I'm on my way to meet someone and we have to coordinate by phone. Like, I'm supposed to call them from some downtown street corner to ask where they are. Or, if I'm kidnapped, I want to be able to make calls from the inside of someone's trunk. Otherwise, I don't care at all.

I don't mind on the rare occasion I forget to take my phone, my husband however gets quite cross with me. :P

::blushes (which isn't easy for a semi-aquatic mammal)::

I don't really care. Even if I have the phone with me I rarely answer: it is so deeply buried in my handbag that even the bionic woman couldn't hear it.
I get upset when I need it because I'm stuck somewhere and I realise it is peacefully resting on the table at home.

I leave my phone all over the place, so I have very bad reply etiquette. You could send me a message and I wouldn't actually reply until the sky changes colour. That goes for even if I do have my phone with me, I just don't feel like responding and run along my merry way.

This reminds me of the scene in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle when they have to decide whether or not to go back for their phone and the filmmakers use a lens to make the ten foot walk back to the apartment look like extensive.

I don't like leaving my phone at home. I feel weird. But my office is in a basement so reception sucks so I usually leave my phone in the car or don't expect calls while at work.

I'm also seeing the advantages of texts more. You can get three words from a person and not have to talk with them about other things.

I feel sorry for kids these days with cell phones that enable their parents to (attempt) to keep track of them or just pester them in general.

My parents had absoltely no idea where my sister and me were half the time.

King Dinösaur wrote: "Same here, Clark.

Mom: "Where are you going?"

Me: "I don't know."

Mom: "Well, don't get yourself killed.""

You would've fit right in at Casa Clark, KD, Kiss records and all.

Clark wrote: "I feel sorry for kids these days with cell phones that enable their parents to (attempt) to keep track of them or just pester them in general.

My parents had absoltely no idea where my sister an..."

I agree wholeheartedly. So many kids these days are going to have extra work to do gnawing through that never-severed umbilical cord when they finally turn 27 and move out.

Sally, I think you meant to say "turn 47 and move out," right?

I guess so. I just say it because I moved back home when I was 23 and didn't leave until I was 27 to move in with Sweeter. I'm such a cliche.

I've had to learn to take my phone with me, and keep it nearby instead of off in my purse in another room. I'm old, I was used to the phone being at HOME, not with me.
Brave new world...

It's true Jackie. For better or worse, people's expectations about being able to locate one another by phone have changed. For a long time, I resisted keeping my cell phone on me but eventually gave in.

And now, I'm addicted to my phone, but that's because I can check my email and play Scrabble on it, not because I'm actually using it as a phone.

Me too. I use mine way more for email than phone calls. Then there are the occasional text messages from my niece and nephew that always leave me scratching my head, trying to remember how to reply.

I can reply to text just fine, it's the initiating one that I'm not sure how to do, Jonathan.

Oh that's way beyond me. I think my nephew also goes out of his way to use abbreviations that I can't decipher. My text replies to him are mostly all the same--"Huh?"--so this at least keeps things simple.

Jonathan wrote: "Oh that's way beyond me. I think my nephew also goes out of his way to use abbreviations that I can't decipher. My text replies to him are mostly all the same--"Huh?"--so this at least keeps things..."

Hahahahahaha!!! I think I've done all my texting on trips to Portland, mostly thanks to Sarah Montambo. I think I'm a decade too old to take to it naturally.
I need a glossary for the abbreviations.

I used to leave my phone at home all the time and not care. But now that I have a smart phone I HATE being separated from it. It's my everything. Sad.

Hahahahahaha!!! I think I've done all my texting on trips to Portland, mostly thanks to Sarah Montambo. I think I'm a decade too old to take to it naturally.
I need a glossary for the abbreviations

Me too.
Who is Sarah Montambo? Is she on TC?

Yes, Sarah Montambo is a moderator over in the Hater's Club, and a school teacher/librarian who works in Portland, and she's adorable. She's the first person to ever text me.
I think I can still count all the texts I've ever sent on my fingers...

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "I think I can still count all the texts I've ever sent on my fingers..."

But how else would you text except with your fingers?

smetchie wrote: "I used to leave my phone at home all the time and not care. But now that I have a smart phone I HATE being separated from it. It's my everything. Sad."

Tell me about it, Gretchen! I really should be reading, or something, not staring at my phone all the time!
And, groan, Jonathan...

His comment was nicer than the one I was mulling over.

"I think I can still count all the texts I've ever sent on my fingers."

Well sure, why not, you 42-fingered freak.

See how much more polite his was?

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "And, groan, Jonathan..."

I get that a lot.

Phil wrote: "His comment was nicer than the one I was mulling over.

"I think I can still count all the texts I've ever sent on my fingers."

Well sure, why not, you 42-fingered freak.

See how much more polite..."

I appreciate your restraint, Phil. :)

BunWat wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I wouldn't actually reply until the sky changes colour...."

I LOVE this. I'm stealing it."

Hahahaa! Go ahead!