How Often Do You Use The Phone?

[scrabbler1]

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Originally Posted by OldShooter We can only hope. I just saw a story about a cop picking up roadway debris who got killed by a driver who was texting and talking. She was uninjured, of course.

Reminds me of a book I read a few years ago about a young man named Reggie Shaw who was texting while driving and killed 2 rocket scientists in Utah.

The book is named "A Deadly Wandering" by Matt Richtel. Shaw has been on a campaign to educate others about the dangers of texting while driving.

[folivier]

I seldom talk on the phone. In fact when I retired I turned off my phone and refused to even answer the house phone. Just wanted the freedom. Now I use the phone more for reading books than anything else.

[ExFlyBoy5]

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Originally Posted by Sunset I rarely use my phone. When I would work, I would phone BEFORE driving off in the car to DW to tell her I was heading home, it was not neurotic but needed. I worked unrestricted hours so sometimes I finished 1 hour early, or 1 hour late, so the agreement was I would phone when walking out the door, that way she knew she had about 40 minutes until supper.

This kind of made me laugh. I am thinking of your DW looking up a fantastic recipe in the Betty Crocker Cookbook that was handed down from her Mother and cooking it on a Lady Kenmore.

[W2R]

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Originally Posted by ExFlyBoy5 For all you "poll" folks, sorry...this isn't one. A few days ago, we had some friends over for dinner and the one of the conversation topics was the use of cell phones and how they have come to rule society. I made a mention about how I rarely make phone calls (with the exception of my Dad's check in once a day) and that I hadn't talked to my DW on the phone in over a month. That's when my friends mentioned that they don't really talk on the phone, either. BUT...they do talk to each other EVERY SINGLE DAY when one of them is driving home from w*rk! Yes, so every day the husband leaves w*rk, he calls to talk to his wife...whom he will see 30 minutes later. It occurred to me that another friend had mentioned that his wife calls him EVERY DAY when she's driving home from w*rk too! So, am *I* the crazy one? Perhaps I see my DW more often than my friends do since I am retired, but since my DW is still w*rking, I don't think we see each other more often than couples of our age. After the friends left, the DW and had a ling discussion as to if we had communication issues in our relationship. We came to the conclusion that we were good to go (not that there was really any concern) and our friends were just crazy. So, what say you?

I guess we talk on the phone once or twice a day. Seems to me that you are also asking about communication in a relationship, so I'll address other ways we communicate besides the phone.

Since he sleeps later than I do, Frank calls me every day to tell me he is awake and soon will be ready to go out to lunch. That gives me a little time to get ready before he picks me up. Since we are both retired, and live next door to each other, he usually just comes over when he wants to talk at other times and we sit and talk for hours sometimes.

For example last night he came over to take out my trash (what a sweetie! He doesn't have to, but knows I really love that). Then we talked for an hour or so. He went home, and around midnight he came back because he saw my light was on, and wanted to give me a podcast (on his thumb drive) that he had just stumbled across and thought I might like. We also send at least 2-3 e-mails to each other every day with links that we think sound interesting. We have been known to text one another but we are not used to doing that often since we are old fogies.

Also, just after a doctor or dentist appointment or something like that, I call him to tell him I am done, on the way home, and will pick him up so we can continue our daily adventures (errands, pleasure drive, or whatever).

I think we are very close and communicate more than many couples that live together.

We never talk on the cell phone while driving. If I get a call, I pull over ASAP, park somewhere, and talk from there.

[braumeister]

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Originally Posted by Sunset the agreement was I would phone when walking out the door, that way she knew she had about 40 minutes until supper.

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Originally Posted by ExFlyBoy5 This kind of made me laugh. I am thinking of your DW looking up a fantastic recipe in the Betty Crocker Cookbook that was handed down from her Mother and cooking it on a Lady Kenmore.

Too funny! I had the exact same image pop into my mind. 40 minutes should be plenty of notice, so I assume you beat her soundly if the meat and potatoes were not on the table when you walked in the door.

[kcowan]

I used to alway talk in my car when I worked 1 hour commute. A couple of times, I was engaged in active conversation and drove right past my turnoff. Handsfree but not brain free!