The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I PUT OUT BASKETS LAST NIGHT AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY!
I'm currently going through something similar. Ever since I came to my current country of residence a few years ago, after work, I went to this one place that was next to the workplace of a significant someone. She'd come there after she was through with work, we'd share a glass or two, and then share a ride home. Not getting drunk, just a couple of beers or so.Gruebeard said:
The thing is, she was assigned to their HQ and left the country about two years ago, and I've still kept up the habit. Very nearly every single day, I go to that bar (another bar at the weekends), take two/three beers, then a glass of wine or two at home in the evening. Not getting shit-faced, but I'm still drinking way more in a month than I did in a whole half-year before I came here, and I don't like it. I need to cut that shit down.
Luckily, I'm moving onwards in about a month. I hope a change of scenery will help do the trick.
Yeah.
When I enter my house, I still feel the need to check my phone messages. Even though my landline has not been active for 5 years.
Anyone else feel a technological phantom limb?
Anyone else feel a technological phantom limb?
Ours doesn't cost much when included in our bundle. I like having it for the school and all my medical appointments.
If I'm old, what does that make you?
My friends text me. Shit I don't care about goes to the land line.
Only have a cell now, got rid of the land-line 3 years ago. If someone calls, and I don't recognize number (doesn't pop up name from contacts) AND they don't leave a message, I add immediately to the blocked caller list. If they leave a message, and it's crap, blocked caller list. If it's something I need, added to contacts.Sorry if I find the idea of having my cell phone ring with incessant inanity all day annoying.
I don't have my sister's number on my phone, she didn't leave a message.
There's random stuff like notices from the town that I might want to hear later, but honestly, I just really hate it when my phone rings when I'm using out for its true purpose... Netflix and Hearthstone[DOUBLEPOST=1459207427,1459207330][/DOUBLEPOST]
It's that thing old timers used to plug their computer into to use the internet.
I turned mine clockwise, dunno 'bout you.
...also I still have a Ma Bell desk model rotary in my basement o' wonders.
--Patrick
We only have Comcast, they don't sell cell service. And like I said, the land line is basically free with our cable and internet. I'm honestly more mystified that we still pay for cable.
Remember when you had to forward your landline to a cell phone in order to spend more than 20 minutes online? EQ1 raiding was a fucking ordeal.
GasBandit
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Notices from the town? Notices from the town?? Well gawwwleee Maw Tucker, best put on yer go-to-meetin' sundee best, 'cause thar be a town meetin' on the topic of all the whoopin' and hollerin' an' carryin' on lately about gettin' a new roof on the Olsen's barn! I hear tell Johnson might even show up in his new fangled horseless carriage, 'n won't that be a sight? I might even wax my moustache for the occasion.
Dave
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I used to have a party line phone. It was my family, my aunt/uncle's family,...and my grandmother. Every time the phone rang she'd pick up & listen in.
And real bells. One of those goes off in your house at full volume nowadays and you'll never see your cats again.
One of my next-door neighbors died...I feel weird. I don't feel sadness as I haven't talked to him in years, but...I still feel weird about it.
One of mine committed suicide quite a number of years ago.
He and his wife raised something like 12 kids in that house, all their own. Seems once everyone moved away and the wife died, he got lonely, took to drinking, etc.
The neighbors on the other side were Jehovah's Witness. Nothing unusual ever happened there (except perhaps the divorce).
--Patrick