Is the screen decent outside? Not like Iexpect to watch movies on the beach, but generally okay?
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I haven't really had problems with it. It is a little dull, but it works fine for me. I'll be honest, I swore off Motorola permanently a while back. This phone convinced me to give them another shot, and I'm glad I did.
I have a cheap flip type phone and cheap plan,no text.I cant afford all that fancy stuff.Its more important to me that my kids have sports to do and instuments to learn to play.As long as I can answer the phone if they need me Im all set.
I miss my simple old Nokia. I never text or surf the web on my phone. It's just for talking and doesn't get used much for that.
That's what I basically have. I mostly have mine for emergencies but people want to constantly text and/or have me at their beck and call 24/7. When I don't answer, they get a little frustrated with me. My take is that a cell phone doesn't equate instant accessibility. I've actually had people upset that I don't take calls when I'm eating dinner or having a face to face conversation. Sometimes I've actually waited upwards of <gasp> a whole day to call them back if I don't perceive the issue to be an emergency. To be fair, most issues aren't emergencies to me. There's nothing that I can do within the next 3 minutes to stop something from happening and, if someone is having a health issue, there's absolutely nothing I can do from a distance anyhow.
As my husband told his mother when she wanted a phone number to reach him when we were out of town in case there was an emergency: "If it's a life or death emergency, call 911. There's nothing that I, personally, can do for you from 1,000 miles away in the event of an emergency."
I use my cell for almost everything. the home phone has become the junk phone. I only check the caller id on it once every week or 2. if anyone I care to talk to wants to get me they know to call my cell and they better not complain (hubby) if I don't answer right away bc I do actually have a life.
I have to admit this to someone.Last night my son had his TV on really loud and I called him from the couch and told him to turn it down.Isnt that terrible!!He was totally shocked.I laughed my .... off.
THANK you!! now to get that scale and no more crazy rushes to the PO!!!
So, since Keyzy is admitting that she called her son from the couch, I'll admit my own little issue.
I hate texting and I mean hate texting. I see people doing this during meetings, classes, while walking, biking, etc. It drives me absolutely insane. I'm on a university campus 3-5 times a week and I have had to move out of the way of students who are so caught up in texting or reading a text to avoid a collision. Well, last week I had an epiphany. Why do I have to move because they're texting and not paying attention to where they're going? It's not like texting is some sort of disabling condition that deserves a respectful move to the side to allow free passage.
So, I've decided that I am no longer moving out of the way for texters. I'm going to drop my shoulder and take the collision. God help the person that chastises me for walking along a path and running into them when they weren't watching where they were going.
I hate texting and I mean hate texting. I see people doing this during meetings, classes, while walking, biking, etc. It drives me absolutely insane. I'm on a university campus 3-5 times a week and I have had to move out of the way of students who are so caught up in texting or reading a text to avoid a collision. Well, last week I had an epiphany. Why do I have to move because they're texting and not paying attention to where they're going? It's not like texting is some sort of disabling condition that deserves a respectful move to the side to allow free passage.
So, I've decided that I am no longer moving out of the way for texters. I'm going to drop my shoulder and take the collision. God help the person that chastises me for walking along a path and running into them when they weren't watching where they were going.
I went on a field trip as a chaperon to the State Fair with my son's school. I was a little upset at the number of other "chaperons" who were doing more texting than child watching. One parent was sitting at a table texting away while the three boys he was supposed to be watching were rolling around on the floor of the milk barn wrestling.
Heh, I'm a bad person. I've had people take phone calls at the table (either dinner or a meeting table) and have excused myself so I wouldn't interrupt their phone call by eating/meeting.
Just because it's a cell phone doesn't mean that prior rules of etiquette don't apply.
You know what irks me, when someone PMs you and you answer right back and they go and log off before answering you! I need an address for something I'm giving away and have some time to go to the PO before I pick my boy up at school. I have the dang package ready except for the address!!! Arrrrgggghhhhh!
I always tell folks I'm sending it to the North Pole with the hopes that Santa can find them. Seems to get me a nice fast response then.
Now that was weird, whiskey's avatar went from a monkey to a wolf in one refresh.
I do not care if my opinion is about to anger someone. I need to get this off my chest and vent it out before either I explode or drive my husband crazy.
I've been reading a few articles the past half hour about an uprising in what they are now calling, "Forgotten Baby Syndrome". It's just what it sounds. Parents forget their child in the car, and they die of hyperthermia. The excuse that has been given, is that in the 1990's child seats were usually placed in the front passenger seat. But entering the 21st century, car safety experts declared that the Air Bag was too dangerous for children and that they should be moved to the back seat. Furthermore, it was safest for them to be facing the rear. So now the children are in the back seat, facing opposite you as you are driving.
This should NEVER become any sort of issue. But it has. Because apparently, out of site out of mind? You would be shocked to learn how many parents simply forget that their child is in the back seat. This is atrocious, disgusting, and 90% of these articles are on the DEFENSIVE side for the parents!
THERE IS NO EXCUSE. NEVER EVER WILL THERE BE AN EXCUSE. You forget you left your child in the car for so long that he/she actually DIES of heat stroke!? No. There is no excuse. You are a bad person and a bad parent, and it's damn right you should feel that way. One article speaks of a man who left his toddler son in the heat of the parking lot, strapped into his car seat for nine hours.
I can almost forgive 20 minutes. Maybe even an hour. But nine hours!?!?! You would remember, at some point during the day, surely. If you are any sort of parent at all.. But yet:
Have we lost so much hope for our society that we are just accepting this as something that is just going to happen? Oh well? Are you KIDDING ME!?!?!
I cannot comprehend this. I have had my days, where I get busy, sidetracked, overwhelmed. But I have NEVER just forgotten about my Son. EVER. And I am very absent minded.
One journalist suggested leaving your cell phone in the back seat with your baby. So you didn't forget your baby.
I've been reading a few articles the past half hour about an uprising in what they are now calling, "Forgotten Baby Syndrome". It's just what it sounds. Parents forget their child in the car, and they die of hyperthermia. The excuse that has been given, is that in the 1990's child seats were usually placed in the front passenger seat. But entering the 21st century, car safety experts declared that the Air Bag was too dangerous for children and that they should be moved to the back seat. Furthermore, it was safest for them to be facing the rear. So now the children are in the back seat, facing opposite you as you are driving.
This should NEVER become any sort of issue. But it has. Because apparently, out of site out of mind? You would be shocked to learn how many parents simply forget that their child is in the back seat. This is atrocious, disgusting, and 90% of these articles are on the DEFENSIVE side for the parents!
THERE IS NO EXCUSE. NEVER EVER WILL THERE BE AN EXCUSE. You forget you left your child in the car for so long that he/she actually DIES of heat stroke!? No. There is no excuse. You are a bad person and a bad parent, and it's damn right you should feel that way. One article speaks of a man who left his toddler son in the heat of the parking lot, strapped into his car seat for nine hours.
I can almost forgive 20 minutes. Maybe even an hour. But nine hours!?!?! You would remember, at some point during the day, surely. If you are any sort of parent at all.. But yet:
Have we lost so much hope for our society that we are just accepting this as something that is just going to happen? Oh well? Are you KIDDING ME!?!?!
I cannot comprehend this. I have had my days, where I get busy, sidetracked, overwhelmed. But I have NEVER just forgotten about my Son. EVER. And I am very absent minded.
One journalist suggested leaving your cell phone in the back seat with your baby. So you didn't forget your baby.
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