Screenie 

Yes, my OH and one of my daughters were couriers before mobile phones and both of them worked at weekends.

We had to be at home for calls on the landline or in the van for calls over the radio.

We were able to get a life when moblie phones became more popular and acceptably sized....we could actually both wander round the shops together or both be in the garden at the same time.

Somehow, a full moon isn't the same from this angle...

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@ghost_of_poddy wrote:

jessicadazzler, you have left out a reason which fits in with the ones that you have quoted.

There is a large population of owners who use their phone as a status symbol, most of the would not 1/8 of the capabilities or capacity of the phone but they feel that they have to be at the top of the phone owners ladder 🙂

That type loves to display their phone as though it was an achievement.

 

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I think people having phones as a status symbol has decline somewhat since the brick sized phone days....mostly because they are cheaper and anyone can have one.

I remember an occasion when mobile phones were new and someone was talking loudly and ostentatiously on his on the tram.  Two deaf guys were watching him and I found the sign they used to describe him didn't need any translation for a hearing person to understand.

The whole situation took an even funnier turn when his phone rang in the middle of the 'conversation'......

Getting back to the subject title... Is there anyone out there besides me who doesn't have a mobile phone of any kind and has NEVER owned a mobile phone of any kind?  I don't have one because 99.9% of the time I wouldn't need one (the fraction of a percent left might be for some emergency....maybe).  Also, I don't want to be that easily contacted all the time.  Phones are a pain IMO.

When mobile phones first came out -the story goes-think it was Frank Sinatra and 

Sammy Davis Jr-had the first very large and expensive phones installed in their cars.

This went well for a while-then for a bit of oneupmanship--Sammys driver answered the phone

and said---sorry Frank---Sammys on the other phone atm................................Richo.

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@ghost_of_poddy wrote:

jessicadazzler, you have left out a reason which fits in with the ones that you have quoted.

There is a large population of owners who use their phone as a status symbol, most of the would not 1/8 of the capabilities or capacity of the phone but they feel that they have to be at the top of the phone owners ladder 🙂

That type loves to display their phone as though it was an achievement.

 

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 Thats true, its just I didn't see that kind of mentality in the replies on this thread 🙂

What's a flat-screen TV?>>>>>>>>>>>dashes off to put a 78  on the gramophone.

DEB

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@serendipityricho wrote:

When mobile phones first came out -the story goes-think it was Frank Sinatra and 

Sammy Davis Jr-had the first very large and expensive phones installed in their cars.

 

This went well for a while-then for a bit of oneupmanship--Sammys driver answered the phone

and said---sorry Frank---Sammys on the other phone atm................................Richo.

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Elvis had a very early car phone, too. Way back in the day. When he was running his own companies.