I lie awake at night seething about how much I hate having it, and planning on "losing" it somewhere. I haven't topped up the pre-paid thingie for a month, and STILL people keep ringing me on it, and I HATE THAT!!! Hopefully the battery has gone flat

You are too popular.

No one calls me on mine so for me it's just like not having one.

sextonseven said:

only 3 people know the number of mine, thankfully Kylie knows not to pester me, but my husband and the handyman seem to think I will actually answer it! but they should simply not call me when I am driving

ZombieKitten said:

I hear you! I hate the attitude from people when they can't get a hold of me. Email, text messages all that bullshit drives me insane.

Leave me the fuck alone!

I took my voicemail out. So no one can leave a voicemail. Drives people nuts.

Honestly though, what did we do before cell phones? Did we say things like, "hey, let's meet at the bar on Friday?" And did we actually show up at said bar on Friday? I don't remember.

TheResistor said:

OK, I have a fellow whinger here

I was HAPPY before I had the cell!

My husband looks at me dumbstruck when I just simply go off to meet someone, and asks me "aren't you gonna call to see if it's still on?!" and to me that is so strange, of COURSE it still is unless they called to cancel

that is the weirdest thing, if I say I'll be at the bar on Friday, I will be obviously cell phones seem to allow people to wait and see if something better comes along, then piss off the original engagement

I never set up my voicemail

sextonseven said:

me, too. It's just an accessory; it keeps my look of this century. And when someone calls I'm invariably at home where I get terrible reception.

I hate it too. I don't like being contacted so easily. And I'm constantly missing calls 'cause I hate carrying it around and then everyone gets mad at me...

JessieJ said:

I was talking on the landline to my sister, and my cell rang, and she's like I didn't know you have a mobile phone!!!! and was mad cause I never gave her the number but I said even if you had it, I've never actually managed to answer a call on it yet!

talking on them is hell. They hurt my eardrums, and there's always a weird disconnect. You're always interrupting each other, and you can't actually talk at the same time (there must be some kind of one way only thing about the signal) so conversations are totally awkward.

NDRU said:

yeah. I feel heat in my head next to the phone, but I'm not sure that isn't just me having psycho-somatic brain cancer symptoms.

mine has been deactivated because I haven't used it in so long. when it was on people who knew I was at home would call me on it instead of my house phone,that would drive me to no end.

I am accustomed to angry voicemail because I'll leave my phone off for like a day, or leave my phone ON and somewhere unattended.

TheResistor said:

This idea is tempting.

some people just aren't made for them I swear

and other people can't live without them! They really took to them like ducks to water I've tried twice and phones just make me anxious

Cinnie said:

How do I do that? I would like to as well. I don't mind people texting a message, I can cope with that.

ZombieKitten said:

Cell phones have contributed to high art of flaking out. Recently I got into it with a friend who flaked out on me. "I left you several messages why I could not make it," he said. "Oh yeah," I asked letting him dig himself deeper into a hole. "Yeah," he said. "I left you several detailed messages." I rolled my eyes, took a dramatic pause and said,"Liar. My voicemail is not set-up. In fact you were annoyed with me last week because I had no voicemail. Did you forget?"

The look on his face was priceless...

ZombieKitten said:

Go into your voicemail settings and delete the greetings. The caller will get a "the caller you are trying to reach has not set up their voicemail." It's fantastic.

TheResistor said:

people say they didn't get your message or sent you one, LIARS!!!

I just checked my phone, and I have a text from the handyman



I don't know when he sent it!

TheResistor said:

I PAY to have voicemail every month!

TheResistor said:

OH!!!! I have never set mine up, I wonder what mine actually says

ZombieKitten said:

That's the classic excuse. "Oh I never got your message"

My friends don't fuck with me as much. They know I don't live and die by the phone like them. What happens in case of an emergency, they say in horror. I guess I'll find out the next day, I say. Don't be waking my ass up with the current wave of emergencies: drunk dialing, freak outs because boyfriend/girlfriend/wife/husband made you cry.

i hate cell phones too. LOATHE them.

i hate people's ludicrous little ringtones, i hate being interrupted at really awkward times by calls when i have no business being on a phone, and i hate the idea that now, no matter where i am or what i am doing, if someone expects to call me at a specific time, i have no excuse. i hate losing my signal in the middle of calls, i hate how much of a strain it is for me to try to hear what someone is saying on a cell phone, and i hate that stupid "can you hear me now" schmuck. screw him.

other than that, cell phones are fine.

I hate "where are you?" and "I'm on the train!!!!"

ZombieKitten said:

ughghghghghgh

i have to admit, though, i notice cell phone etiquette has generally improved over the last few years.

that is not to say that cell phone assholism does not still run rampant.

it's just a little LESS rampant.

My phone just rang twice with "unavailable number". Now I remember why I have voicemail - screening calls.

I rarely even have my cell phone on. Most of the time it's dead at the bottom of my purse. I prefer the land line but I don't have call waiting so when people can't get through they try my cell phone which is either silenced or dead. Then when they finally get ahold of me they complain about how I don't have call waiting as to which I reply "bitch, you gonna pay my phone bill?"

i hate having one too.

to make it worse, i now carry two

i love my cell ph- its the only way i can keep up with the org at home at the moment.

but it wont let me post

My phone is only on durring business hours or if I'm out and about! I don't want to be hassled by unecessary fringe aquaintences when I'm at home!