Cryptic phone msg

[Rooster]

I'm an old ffart and don't feel I need an electrical umbilical to the outside world so I rarely pay attention to the phone on weekends. Heading to bed to surf the booliten board here, check the phone and my friend sent me a message yesterday saying he had some lead for me. OMG, BBQ, EIEIO! Thing is it's so late now I can't call and pissemoff. But the way he put it was a "Mother Lode"! (Cold sweat, rise in bp ((Pb backwards I just noticed)) The suspense is killin' me!!

[TNsailorman]

I am old also and both me and the wife do not answer the phone anymore unless we recognize the number. I may have missed out on a "deal" at some point but who cares. I am way too old to start worrying about what I may have missed. I have my needs and that is good enough. I never worry about things I cannot change. I heard a wise man say one time that 98% of things we worry about never come to pass anyway.

[oley55]

The only phone messages I ever get involve extended auto warranties or some such thing.

[William Yanda]

The only phone messages I ever get involve extended auto warranties or some such thing.

Never want to fix your computer or give you a deal on health insurance?

[GhostHawk]

I took it a step further. We dropped our land line some 6 years back when we switched from DSL to cable internet.

Got a pair of simple phones from Consumer Cellular, and pay half what we were paying for the land line.

Well I got tired of people cold calling me while I was trying to nap and set up an app called Mr Number on my phone.

Your not in my contact list, it does not ring and gets killed after one try at ringing.

Open up the call list every few days and it is easy to spot the telemarketers and cold callers. They hit my block list and I never hear from them again. Happened to have my phone in hand one day when I saw the call came in. They wanted to talk about my school loan. Well I partied my way out of collage after less than a year. Paid off what I owed and moved home. So I don't have a school loan. Needless to day they went on my block list and their voice message got deleted.

The phone is a tool, no different than any other tool. I decide if I am going to use it and when. I don't let someone else dictate to me. The phone does not get to tell me what to do. I tell the phone what to do.

Friends and family know I do not always keep it near. But but also know I will always return a call or a text.

I'm not as fond of Mr Number as I used to be. It used to be a free app and now they want a years subscription to use it. Which still annoys me but less than getting jolted out of a good nap with another phone marketer.

[kbstenberg]

Rooster I didn't know i had a twin! 99% of the time i pay no attention to a ringing phone either. I see all those crazy people with that communication device in front of them no matter what they are doing. An just wonder what has happened to society. The wife is trying to make me carry her latest old phone. On the off chance i MITE need it when i go fishing or hunting. I am resisting so far.

[GregLaROCHE]

We got rid of our landline because majority of calls were trying to sell something. The worst was when it wasn’t even a person, just a recording saying to hold if interested. Unfortunately, now we have to go outside for the cell phones to work. I buy a lot of stuff from the internet and a lot of times, if the delivery driver doesn’t get an answer, he doesn’t come.

[TimD]

I'm an old ffart and don't feel I need an electrical umbilical to the outside world so I rarely pay attention to the phone on weekends. Heading to bed to surf the booliten board here, check the phone and my friend sent me a message yesterday saying he had some lead for me. OMG, BBQ, EIEIO! Thing is it's so late now I can't call and pissemoff. But the way he put it was a "Mother Lode"! (Cold sweat, rise in bp ((Pb backwards I just noticed)) The suspense is killin' me!!

Finding the Mother Lode would be a good start to the week!

[dogrunner]

Hate the damn things............nuthin' but an electronic leash! Still, there is some utility to be had if you are in a tight spot........my wife contracted with AT&T..phone/internet svc. etc.....she bought one that could probably teach you how to swim....also gave me her old one telling me to carry it.......problem is I hunt the Ocala Ntl. Forest..........AT&T has zero coverage there, look at a map of cell coverage and it appears as one big blank for that locale. Don't bother with the thing, should I get stuck back of nowhere I can always use my 2 meter rig............

[Tazman1602]

We don’t either — if I don’t know the caller it doesn’t get picked up(yes we are old AND have had our number on “Do Not Call” list for 20 years) except when I want to mess with them:

Caller: “hello, is Mr. X there?”
Me: “naw that was cousin X, he’s doing a dime in Jackson for murder”
Caller: “CLICK”

Caller: “hello, we are calling to report unauthorized activity on your social security number”
Me: “YOU IDIOT HOW MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR THIS? Neither Ss or Medicare will EVER call you! This is illegal and I’m calling the FBI!”
Caller” “CLICK”

Hey they ask for it.....

Art

[GregLaROCHE]

Hate the damn things............nuthin' but an electronic leash! Still, there is some utility to be had if you are in a tight spot........my wife contracted with AT&T..phone/internet svc. etc.....she bought one that could probably teach you how to swim....also gave me her old one telling me to carry it.......problem is I hunt the Ocala Ntl. Forest..........AT&T has zero coverage there, look at a map of cell coverage and it appears as one big blank for that locale. Don't bother with the thing, should I get stuck back of nowhere I can always use my 2 meter rig............

You are so lucky to have a place to hunt and be out of cell phone range. Sounds like heaven!

[Rooster]

It looks like I'm not alone with my thoughts on modern communications here. It was a mobile text this past weekend, so I can't even get the terminology down correctly . I will find out more when he gets off his job this afternoon as an x-ray specialist at the largest hospital in the area. This has some potential to it. He also shoots that newish 50 cal cartridge out of his AR that costs a first born, that is if you can find it. I'd have to look up the cartridge again as CRS has hit me this morning. There it is: 50AE. He says it's a one shot kill on the piggies out here in The Swamp.

[BK7saum]

Are you sure it's the 50AE and not the 50 beowulf? Never seen an AE in an AR, but apparently there are a couple of makers. The Beowulf is more mainstream.

[John Boy]

“ You have reached the XYZ Police Department, how may we help you?”
Click ....

[Bmi48219]

Our primary reason for having a land line was it connected our alarm system to the local sheriff’s office. Secondary reason was a landline has its own power supply so it’ll continue to work when power goes out, like after a hurricane.
The HOA negotiated a new contract w/ alarm company. They installed a wireless system to contact sheriff’s. Battery powered, supposed to be good for one week w/o FPL.

AT&T landline started out at $20/month. Two years later up to $30. Then years and it’s bumping $50 for local only, pay for long distance as you use it. Wife always hated AT&T. Once we got new wireless alarm (almost two years ago) I told her we should cancel landline. She wanted to wait until after hurricane season. Same story now. 99.8% of all calls coming in on landline are some pitch or other. We never answer it but the 5 times a month I want to call local (or 1-800) I use it.

[richhodg66]

Still carrying a flip phone. It makes phone calls, occasional text to the wife. When I am retired for good, it'll get pitched as hard as I can throw it into Milford Lake.

I got along with just a landline at the house for 35 years or so and I can do it again. Weekends and after supper, it usually just sits on the night stand anyway.

[lightman]

I hope your friend has a great score for you.

[Rooster]

OK gents, here's the poop. One gorilla lawn wagon filled to the gunwales with 3/4 of it being soft lead 1/8" sheeting that they trim holes in to do their work on people. He said it's for localized treatment. Maybe he'll have more of this in the future. The other was their "clean out lead" which were little painted building blocks of harder alloy the majority of which had that ring when we tossed them in the wagon. He said they used these to focus the beam to the area but now everything is computer controlled. It's now like me: obsolete, OLD. I cried all the way back to the burner bunker!!! The sheets were in a 25 gallonish rubbermaid trash can and he had the bricks in the rear seat of his Ram truck. I won't really know the bottom line until I get it rendered into ingots. Any guesses? I still get giddy when I think of it, maybe one more peak below that tarp, what a maroon I am.

Cost? I HAVE to help him pull up some flooring at the river cabin, meet with the respective bosses so they can share grandkid photos, drink beer, maybe fish some.....

I forgot how to colorize the sarcastic parts so I'll let you figure that out yourself.

ETA: I may be wrong on that caliber, it very well may have been the Beowulf. I'll find out next time we talk.

[richhodg66]

Sounds like you're set for a while, congratulations.

[lightman]

Nice Score! It sounds like helping your buddy won't be so bad either! Fish, Beer --- I would have made that swap too!