Kids, or should i say young adults, and cell phones go together like celery and turkey stuffing....you rarely see one without the other.
However, I resisted the technology, mostly because of cost, right up until a few days before the floods....literally, six days before the water came. At that time I purchased a $20 reconditioned Straight Talk phone and began learning to text and take lousy photographs and be annoying and all the other good stuff you do with cell phones.
It was kinda nice. I could keep in touch with the kids without being intrusive, send it with the boss when he went out on the highway after parts or groceries and get on the Internet any place any time. We could call the vet or the oil company or anyone else we needed to talk to right from the barn....or really from the barn yard, as there is little service inside the actual barn.
Then came the floods. Our land phones were out for days, but with the cell we could keep in touch with family all over. All was good.
Enter the cell phone slayer. Yeah, our twenty-something boy child. He hurts phones. Drops them in fast running creeks, the gutter between the cows, gets them kicked into orbit behind cranky cows when he uses them while milking, and other nefarious deeds.
Gets them sprayed with hydraulic fluid and gets it behind the screen. I swear his phones always smell like rice from all the days and hours they spend resting in bags of same.
I could go on and on and on and on. All that stuff I listed was done to one especially tough model he used. It was run over five times, by the truck and tractors, besides enduring the oil, the kicks, the stompings and any number of other indignities. (When he dropped it in the creek he was hunting with a friend and actually watched it floating away, underwater, flashing and blinking happily.) Rather than a smart phone I guess we should have called it the tough phone.
It actually still works, you just can't read the screen.
Thus he was finally forced to buy a cheapo flip phone to replace it.
Which he dropped the other day while working in the dark in the free stall barn at his new job. That one didn't survive its encounter with an errant cow hoof atall, atall..
So guess who is without a phone right now. No, not the slayer......
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Love ya !!
I don't suppose he'd wear it on a little cord around his neck, would he? ...at all times, even while using it?
That sounds like a commercial for the first phone. You should contact the carrier, maybe they'll give him a new one or use his experience in their ads. That was a good phone.
You know how the WWII fighters used a silhouette of their enemy stenciled on the side of the cockpit to commemorate their kills?
I'm thinking something on the side of the tractor--or his pick-up truck. Yeah! His pick-up! Use two colors. One for near death experiences (red?) and one for a fatality (black, of course).
I'm thinking you're way too soft on the boy child, letting him have your phone. He's never going to figure a way to keep it safe if you just hand yours over. I know, ma, I know, he might have a car accident or something.
On the other hand, you might need it ... say ... oh ... if you were to break a bone or something.
My DIL got me one of those used by our soldiers as they are so tuff. But it doesn't get very good service (like I could get much anyway, out here!) so I got a geezer phone. No camera or any bells and whistle, but real big numbers and real simple to use (if your not a moron like me!) She bought this phone for $5 on Ebay, so I am sure you could get one. I'd send mine, but I think my son is going to take it, as he is as hard on phones evidently;y as your son! ;-)
Word verification is- limping. Cool, it knows me!
AH! But he hasn't put it through the washing machine yet! Or dropped it in the commode.
Yes. I know two dear men who have slain phones thusly.
That is what parents are for...as I keep finding out over and over and over again.
Linda
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LOL you made my day with this post.......so did JB with his geezer phone........that's what Terril has;)
Hey Mappy, love you too. lol
June, hah, that might work. lol
Cathy, really, that is a great idea. What an incredible phone it was!
Joated. I LOVE this idea! He really should! lol
Aka, you are so right, I'm afraid. I worked really hard for that phone and have babied it along so it is...or was...still nice and shiny and smooth. Now, not so much.
JB, thanks, that is pretty cool. Never thought of Ebay and I would be quite happy with a geezer phone, except maybe for texting. I cannot, no matter what I do, figure out how to use the number pad to text. I have an itty bitty keyboard on mine. lol I am so sorry about the word verifications. I know you hate them and I turned them off for you but I immediately started getting a lot of spam...dozens per day...so I turned it back on.
Cathy, hah, thankfully, if he has done that to it he hasn't mentioned it. I have put my cow notebook through the washer, which was pretty much of a disaster, but so far no phones.
Linda B, I feel like a trusty camel or something, just there to give service. I miss my phone!
LInda P, I love the idea of those geezer phones except I don't know how to text on a number pad. I suppose even at my great age I might be able to learn. lol
I wholeheartedly agree with akaGaGa, but I will take it a step further: You are ENABLING irresponsible behavior in this young man. (I'm sorry if that sounds harsh.) If Slayer had to go a few days without texting, etc., then he would certainly stop dropping his phone.
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