Sometimes vintage is just ...

[Matt Deckard]

... well harder than jumpin' in the car and runnin' to the local McDonald's for some nuggets.

How often do you go all the way the vintage way? Could you ever just leave the cell phone home?

 

[staggerwing]

Electric starters a great. If you like hand-cranking an automobile, try hand propping and airplane! Oh, and I feel naked without my cell phone.

 

[LizzieMaine]

How often do you go all the way the vintage way? Could you ever just leave the cell phone home?

What cell phone?

 

[Fletch]

This one?

 

[Feraud]

I go often without any electronic gadgets. It is not "going vintage" but wanting not to be bothered by anyone!

 

[Paisley]

What cell phone?

Yeah, what cell phone?

(I do like my electronic ignition, though.)

 

[CanadaDoll]

I don't drive, so no hand starting or electric starting of cars for me and as far as cell phones go..........I don't like anybody being able to find me that easily

 

[The Wingnut]

What cell phone?

Righto! Who needs a leash?

A friend calls 'em 'radio phones'. Confuses the heck out of people.

I could go without my computer for a while(which is about as sophisticated as I get), but I'd have a hard time getting directions to places and looking things up. Maps and yellow pages, I guess. Makes you realize how lazy we've become when if you wanted to research something or find some obscure information, you'd have to go to a library or have a really good encyclopedia on hand.

 

[Steve]

I often leave the cell phone behind. The bloody thing just shortens my chain.

 

[Elaina]

No cell phone and I still do a good portion of my research for my novels the old fashioned way: with a pen and paper and a card catalog in the local library.

 

[LolitaHaze]

... well harder than jumpin' in the car and runnin' to the local McDonald's for some nuggets.

But that makes it all worth it and healthier too.

 

[cooncatbob]

Since I have a cell phone because I need it for work, I like to have it with me in case of an emergency . But it's turned off till I need it, If someone wants me that's what voice mail and answering machines are for.
Bob.

 

[Sefton]

Since I have a cell phone because I need it for work, I like to have it with me in case of an emergency . But it's turned off till I need it, If someone wants me that's what voice mail and answering machines are for.
Bob.

I'm the same way. I have to have it for my job,but I leave it off most of the time. I turn it on about one an hour to see if anyone has tried to reach me. On my day off-no cell,or radio phone!

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

I'm the same way. I have to have it for my job,but I leave it off most of the time. I turn it on about one an hour to see if anyone has tried to reach me. On my day off-no cell,or radio phone!

Same here. I also have a palm pilot I use occasionally for businees purposes. But I hate my cell phone but need it sometimes. Occasionally I leave it at home.

 

[Parallel Guy]

No cell phone and I still do a good portion of my research for my novels the old fashioned way: with a pen and paper and a card catalog in the local library.

fftopic: Card catalogs! Why did they get rid of those? Every time I go to the library now I have to wait for a half an hour to get on the computer to find what I'm looking for. Just because technology can do something doesn't mean it can do it better.

 

[CanadaDoll]

Precisely Parallel Guy!

 

[Diamondback]

I can't leave my cells (I'm on-call 24/7), but one is pre-GPS-embedding and the other's set to "E911 Only". (Besides, I need something to add some bulk in my pockets, and a lot of the stuff grunts actually carried would raise some eyebrows around these parts...)

Not to mention that the bulges make convenient "cover" for less-desirable to have noticed equipment...

fftopic: Card catalogs! Why did they get rid of those? Every time I go to the library now I have to wait for a half an hour to get on the computer to find what I'm looking for. Just because technology can do something doesn't mean it can do it better.

To heck with that, I actually know how to use Dewey Decimal and just go prowl the stacks. WIMP! (OTOH, most of what I need to deal with in my local library right now is in Reference, with the librarians cracking wise about taping a "Reserved for Diamondback" note to the cover of Conway's '22-'46.)

 

[Dan G]

The cell phone gets left everywhere. Sometimes in the woods too. We actually had to go back for a friend of mines phone.:eusa_doh: How many have been ruined by inadvertent crick swimming? Lots.:eusa_doh:

 

[Amy Jeanne]

The only thing I go all-the-vintage-way on would be movies. I RARELY watch movies made after the early 1940s. My passion is with movies from the 1920s and especially the 1930s. I have so many unwatched movies that I've recorded that I just don't have time for anything else. I barely have time for my 1930s movies.

But even then, I watch them at home on a DVD player; not in an ornately gorgeous theatre. Ok, I guess it's impossible to go all-the-vintage-way with my movie viewing adventures!! I tried!

 

[Paisley]

fftopic: Card catalogs! Why did they get rid of those? Every time I go to the library now I have to wait for a half an hour to get on the computer to find what I'm looking for. Just because technology can do something doesn't mean it can do it better.

Does your library have a web site? If so, you may be able to do your search online instead of waiting at the library.