Flying to Ohio and I charge my phone overnight, duh. Need to leave at 4:30 AM to catch my flight. Grab my phone off the charger heading out the door and it reads 100%. Get to the security check point after a 20 minute ride to the airport, pull out my phone to get my boarding pass and it reads 1% and powers off. Luckily didn’t need boarding pass. Tried to charge it while waiting for the flight and it goes up and down on percentages. Barely any power and huge connection issues trying to contact my ride on arrival. Get to destination, charge phone and no problem for 11 days until the day I leave. Same scenario except my flight didn’t leave until 8:30pm. Phone drained charge and would not charge during the day. Get back and phone charges to 100% and lasts all day off the charger. No problems. Flight info listed in calendar. Any thoughts? Anyone else had this happen?
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My wife use to say that to me. Mishaps like that 'can' happened, but not like that. For example, I was in a car accident, in which I had my cell phone with me at the time. My air bag deployed and I was taken to the hospital by ambulance. They checked me out, and fortunately I was just fine. Never did see my cell phone after that. I called my wife using the landline at the hospital for her to pick me up. Losing my cell phone allowed me to settle down a bit and avoided having her freaking out over the incident. Another time I got a flat tire and I didn't have a cell phone with me. The SUV I drove had an under the chassis spare tire that was rusted on and fused that I couldn't change my tire. I ended up driving slowly, with emergency flashers on and drove it off the freeway, up an exit, and parked it at a gas station on some avenue. I used the telephone at the service station to have my wife pick me up. IMHO, 99% of the time, a cell phone isn't really ever needed. I'm batting 100% after 10 years with this. One last example that occurred recently when I picked my wife up at the airport. Now this was admittedly a little bit of un-chartered territory for me because I was dealing with the wife. Yes, the wife. You never want to make the wife wait. So, I went to the airport without anyway of contacting her once she flew in. Beforehand, she called me right when she boarded the plane. It was behind schedule and she called me once more right before the plane took off. I calculated the delay and got there a little early. She was to meet me outside of her airline baggage claim area..... In the end, it all worked out really well. She asked me why I didn't bring the other cell phone she had left me. I told her forgot it. She gave me that blank stare a woman gives when you don't know whether she is going to be mad at you or not. All was good. It was a little precarious with the eye contact there, but I didn't make her wait, so it all worked out. Now, this example is the most severe situation you'll ever run into. I had no cell pone and passed with flying colors. It can be done.
You were very fortunate in all those cases. Some do not have good fortune. My wife slid off the highway in the snow beyond cell phone service up in the mts where we live. Sat there for 2 hours before someone passed by. Got sick from the cold. It "can" be done but everyone is different.
You are not wrong by any means (How do you like that sentence with a double negative?). Each of us have our own unique situation and know what's best. I tend to reflect about a time before cell phones and constantly ask myself if we are any better off. My answer to this is no, but that's just me. My wife and kids all have cell phones. But, there's something more that's going on that deserves everyones' attention. When in Canada provinces are requiring an app to show vax☠xine passport status to buy or travel, and when the G20 governments agreed that vax☠xine passports should be implemented, this is when I say it's looking more and more like the Beast system and cell phones are being used as the gateway to establish it. It wasn't all that long ago in the era of pagers that it was common practice in winter to carry emergency items when traveling in rural areas of the country. It still needs to be practiced. Cell phones don't always work. I remember the requirement was a strong flashlight, tools, a good blanket, and emergency flares. Your spare tire required to be checked and maintained along with the jack and tire changing tools. I still remind my kids, who are now young adults, to always bring their coats with them. The habit is all too easy not to bring them. This is even in the metro area.
Anyway, everyone is different. It is a preference and mindset.
With corded house phones you had to hang up when arguing to let's say...drive to work. You would calm down after you hung up and things may cool down. However, now with cell phones you can argue walking to your car and then all the way to work. Many things get said now that otherwise wouldn't have.
As Jackie Gleason use to say.... "How true it is!"
They've become so ubiquitous that people forget there was a time that they didn't exist. I used to have a Jeep that was constantly breaking down. I kept a big box of tools and spares in the back and a bunch of quarters taped to the dash for payphone use. The quarters only use was for buying cheap draft beer when I ran out of cash.
Wow. Right back at you, bro. I had a CJ-5 that the clutch linkage kept breaking. I remember always keeping a thermal blanket in the seat box in the back along with some warm gloves, and rain jacket. I kept my tool box under the hood. I remember having to crawl under the jeep during a freak blizzard in Virginia Beach to fix the linkage. I nearly froze my hands. I had no idea it got that cold there. That day I saw more accidents from people sliding off the roads. They simply didn't know how to drive in snow. I never did the taped quarter thing like you mentioned, but I remember being short on money at times and running on fumes though. It always worked out in the end.
Cool! CJ-7 for me. I once stalled in the middle of a major intersection during rush hour, in the rain. I used the starter to get out of traffic then limped half a kilometer to Canadian Tire. It would run sporadically, then die. Sometimes hundreds of feet, sometimes 10. When I got to Canadian Tire, it was pouring, so I drove just under the entrance overhang, 10 feet from the door. I spent hours there, diagnosing, buying parts, rediagnosing, buying more parts. EVERY guy that was coming or going felt the need to give his 2 cents worth. It was appreciated at first, but then I found myself spending more time explaining the same thing to more and more people. Store security got annoyed and said I'd have to move. I said I was trying and that I was a repeat customer.
That's a great story. The way you started out it sounded like an episode short of The World of Commander McBragg and his incredible adventures like this one called, "Lost Valley".