OT. Cell Phones

I have a sign over my washing machine saying "Where is your cell phone?".

I used to have an elderly neighbor, and made sure she had a cell phone in case she fell.

My last watch got destroyed in a motorcycle accident in March 1983. I never replaced it and haven't missed it.

I want to be able to tell time at any time without having to carry my cell phone as if it was surgically attached to my body. Wrist watches are a lot lighter in weight and much smaller. Besides, I can bring my arm up from my side and see the time almost instantaneously. I don't have to fish a phone out from a pocket or undo the closure of a holster around my waist. Also, in more than 70 years of wearing a watch, I've never broken or lost one or had one fall into the toilet etc.

Different strokes for different folks.

I continue to wear my watch whenever I go out. I also take the phone unless I only have one errand to do, like the supermarket, but even if I take it, I don't always turn it on.

I've never lost a watch or dropped it some place bad, but I buy the $24 digital watches and the band breaks. I can't find a band for less than $15 so I guy another watch. Once I glued the old watch to the bathroom wall so I could see it while I took a bath, but now I use the clock radio at the other end of the room.

My father was a dentist, and he wore his watch on the inside of his wrist, so he could look at the time while working on a patient.

LOL. For the first time, I actually lost my kitchen phone yesterday. I don't how long the battery will last. I called it today but couldn't hear it on the first floor and on the second there were two other phones ringing. :( It's cordless, and if I don't find it, I'll use the duplicate I bought on ebay.

I bought one the first time, because my brother was going to visit Philadelphia, sightseeing. I figured he would leave the motel at 9AM and I didn't want to have to get up at 7 to be in north Philly by 9.

So I got a cellphone so I could find him at 11AM. It worked.

I made a small mistake by checking off Xfiniity or whatever so I could use their free wifi. But then driving an hour to Frederick Md. every few minutes it announces it's logging into the xfinity but I have to say yes. I have plenty of data and don't need wifi, but it's good that if I'm in one place, not moving, and there is xfinity, I can use it.

Bought my first wristwatch when I was 16. Still have one today, sitting on my desk. Have not worn one for at leas 8 or 9 years since I got a phone. Nice watch too, just no need.

I know a guy, about 77 at the time, that sort of brags he never turns his phone on, rarely carries it. His wife went away for a couple of days. He fell and laid in the hallway for about 36 hours.

With so many digital devices in the world the time is all around. Sitting with the laptop on my belly right now I can see two sources and not move my head, just my eyes. A turn either way shows me others. The kitchen for years had a clock but now the microwave and stove have the time on them. I can even ask Alexa.

Shut off the damned WiFi while you're moving.

Dropped mine three times now into the water taking picture of indignant trout whose dinner I rudely interrupted.

It is a flip phone. I can change the battery and sit on it without breaking it: Kyocera E4610

Phones and computers set the time automatically, so they should always be right. No dealing with Damn Stupid Time.

I would think so and maybe on the same bands but had not heard any of them.

My wife bought me a smart watch for Christmas. I had to link it to the cell phone which was a PITA but it works well. I have two atomic clocks and a watch and they all balk when time changes. Minute hands are correct but hours get messed up and I have to play around with time zones. The smart watch is very nice and light and wearing it only when out of the house a charge can last two weeks. At a class reunion a few years ago, a classmate who has an accounting firm says he can conduct all his business on his Apple watch.

And you can do it stealthily if you're in some interminable meeting.

I've had it about 4 years now. It controls two of my lights, one on a timer, the other verbally. It works, but does not generate any revenue for Amazon. Maybe once a year I'll ask it a question.

In the car it's usually charging so that's not a problem.

It's a nuisance to turn wifi on and off. Whatever I did, saying No, deleting it from the list of possible wifis, whatever, stopped the phone from asking about it every time I was in range of some homeowner's xfinity wifi.

My daily wrist watch is a Seiko that is both solar powered and "Atomic" (gets nightly day/date/time/Standard vs Savings Time automatically. I only set the watch when I first bought it 14 years ago and of course have never needed to replace a battery. Band is stainless steel and adjustable to the 1/8" size.