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You know you are getting old when you check your phone and you find, no messages and no missed calls and you think: "Thank goodness for that."
You know you are getting old when you check your phone and you find, no messages and no missed calls and you think: "Thank goodness for that."
Yes, but . . . when I don't have missed calls/emails/texts, I worry. I just transferred at work, have only had a few after-hours calls etc in a mnoth. When there is nothing there I check to see if the phone is on.Oh dear God yes - no messages, no texts, no (real) emails, no missed calls to return or address is heaven.
You don't have any apps on your phone except FB, IG, and Strava and don't even know what most of them are or how they work. Or even what the point of them is.
I upgraded my phone and the clerk actually said to me "I've never seen a phone with so few things on it."
I wish I had a phone like that. Every time I've asked about deleting/uninstalling the apps I'll never use (which is almost all of them) I've been told they're so "integrated" that it can't be done. Initially I thought that was just an excuse, but I've now heard it from so many different clerks that I'm thinking there might be some truth to it.You don't have any apps on your phone except FB, IG, and Strava and don't even know what most of them are or how they work. Or even what the point of them is.
I upgraded my phone and the clerk actually said to me "I've never seen a phone with so few things on it."
That was me back in my pre-retirement days. Thankfully personal phones were still analogue, texting was tedious in that you had to tap the keys so many times to achieve the correct letter, but that didn't take too long, and without a spell checker I didn't have the daily argument with my phone.Yes, but . . . when I don't have missed calls/emails/texts, I worry. I just transferred at work, have only had a few after-hours calls etc in a mnoth. When there is nothing there I check to see if the phone is on.
Just checked. Nothing new since the email when I scanned some stuff to my computer about 615 PM.
(Personal cell? I might check it once a week. Anyone who needs to reach me knows my work number.)
I wish I had a phone like that. Every time I've asked about deleting/uninstalling the apps I'll never use (which is almost all of them) I've been told they're so "integrated" that it can't be done. Initially I thought that was just an excuse, but I've now heard it from so many different clerks that I'm thinking there might be some truth to it.
I use a flip phone. What’s an app?
What an intelligent pair you both are. Let me enlighten you to the "joys" of a smart phone. These things argue with you, think that they can spell better than you and they take the p*** out of you at every opportunity:I don't even own a cell phone.
Indeed. I view my phone more as a babysitter, nag, and adversary than as a “modern convenience”. Just today I was reading an article about how the youth in Hong Kong have learned to avoid being surveilled, tracked, ease-dropped on, and incriminated by ...turning off their phones.
What you are experiencing is mood change, happens to most of us. In another thread I admitted that, when younger, I was influenced by trends. Perhaps by peer pressure or self imposed, but not anymore. Trends are fickle, style is class and timeless.I'm going to be 50 next year, and it doesn't feel like that means much. I have a young child (she's about to turn 10), and my body hasn't changed much in spite of drastic, medically required dietary changes. But I have this tropical wiggle dress and dammit. I cannot handle wearing it. :/ I would have rocked this thing 12 years ago, same body. But now, I feel like I'm wearing something that just doesn't belong on me.
I'm going to be 50 next year, and it doesn't feel like that means much. I have a young child (she's about to turn 10), and my body hasn't changed much in spite of drastic, medically required dietary changes. But I have this tropical wiggle dress and dammit. I cannot handle wearing it. :/ I would have rocked this thing 12 years ago, same body. But now, I feel like I'm wearing something that just doesn't belong on me. I am 100% for women doing what they want, wearing what they want, and I strongly dislike the articles about what women over this or that age shouldn't wear.... but I also feel so ridiculous in that dress now. Like I'm advertising something that isn't for sale. lol Which is silly because I never thought of it as advertising before, and certainly not for sale! Nor do I see that on other women and think that. My husband would probably like it, but I'm putting the dress on eBay soon. I wonder what messages I've taken in subconsciously about this kind of thing. It makes me feel old, and nothing else really does.
I'm going to be 50 next year, and it doesn't feel like that means much. I have a young child (she's about to turn 10), and my body hasn't changed much in spite of drastic, medically required dietary changes. But I have this tropical wiggle dress and dammit. I cannot handle wearing it. :/ I would have rocked this thing 12 years ago, same body. But now, I feel like I'm wearing something that just doesn't belong on me. I am 100% for women doing what they want, wearing what they want, and I strongly dislike the articles about what women over this or that age shouldn't wear.... but I also feel so ridiculous in that dress now. Like I'm advertising something that isn't for sale. lol Which is silly because I never thought of it as advertising before, and certainly not for sale! Nor do I see that on other women and think that. My husband would probably like it, but I'm putting the dress on eBay soon. I wonder what messages I've taken in subconsciously about this kind of thing. It makes me feel old, and nothing else really does.
Maybe it did, but the sight of the potential lover puts a damper on his lover's ardour!The sight of a paunchy older fellow with an elaborate combover getting out of a late-model Corvette in a supermarket parking lot would have people thinking the Viagra didn’t work.
You don't have any apps on your phone except FB, IG, and Strava and don't even know what most of them are or how they work. Or even what the point of them is.
I upgraded my phone and the clerk actually said to me "I've never seen a phone with so few things on it."