Whining Thread #2

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bia said:
I still have a landline with a corded phone (and a couple cordless, too), for lots of the same reasons other people have given. I considered going cell-phone-only, but I can't be relied on to keep it charged. Plus, in a two-story house, it's nice to have multiple extensions around -- wherever I've left the cell, I can't hear it from everywhere in the house, and I can't always get to it before it goes to voicemail. What I want someone to invent (no one has yet, right?) is a dock to put the cellphone in when I get home, which transfers the signal to various extensions around the house.

It's funny seeing kids with a rotary phone -- they have no idea how to dial it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c
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Heh...I didn't know what some of those things were...

And I don't know how to dial a rotary phone, either...

/hides
 
Lioness said:
Heh...I didn't know what some of those things were...

And I don't know how to dial a rotary phone, either...

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Well, to be fair, they weren't quite fair with their choices. It seems to me that some of these things came and went really quickly -- I didn't know all of them either. But I love hearing kids call records "old CDs". (I wonder when kids will stop recognizing CDs and think that all music has always been MP3s?) Lioness, as long as you know that you have to pick up the receiver on a corded phone, you're ahead of the elementary school kids a friend works with. They leave the receiver in place, push the buttons to dial, wait for something to happen, and then tell her that the phone is broken.
 
Baby gates everywhere... the one at the bottom of the stairs is most annoying, cause I can't safely hop over it! Granted I'm glad it's there, because this kid won't stay off the stairs otherwise, and they are polished hardwood, so even the adults slip on them in socks lol
 
Ugg. One of my teachers this semester is a jerk. He has a zero tolerance policy for homework being late. You turn it in one second after class begins on the due date and you get nothing for it, with no hope of getting the points back. Maybe this is acceptable in grade school or undergraduate work, but the grad program I selected specifically makes allowances for the fact that most of the students also have full-time jobs. Some of us are forced to go on travel. Some of us have to work evenings or weekends. Every other teacher in the program is cool with that, and it was a big selling point for the program.

I'm not sure if there's anything to do at this point other than to roast him in the review at the end of class. Seems like too much trouble to bring up to the head of the program right now.

GRRR. :mad:
 
Never had such a hard time getting out of bed in the morning... I am making baby steps of progress now... Not nearly satisfying, and my old "better than nothing" pacifier doesn't do a thing for me anymore, heh
 
j_alexandra said:
Am I the only person on DF who still has a landline? With one of those super long curly cords? I untangled it just this way *today*.
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No....I have a land line. I live in a cell phone dead zone. But, it's a cordless...no curly cord. :-) I do keep a corded phone for power outages.
 
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