Before cell phones. - Page 2

TOOL460002 · #21 12-03-2012, 11:11 PM

Minidisc player. Then before that a CD Walkman (and a LOT of AA batteries around for either. Before that... I don't know. I'm 29.

FretlessMainly · #22 12-03-2012, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by two fingers

That being said, I love Googling junk on my phone these days.

Whose junk?

carlos840 · #23 12-04-2012, 03:22 AM

My phone is a phone, all it does is call and sent texts... Nothing much i can do with it, it doesn't even have the snake game!

I never find myself wishing for more.

Simo98 · #24 12-04-2012, 04:34 AM

I think I must be quite weird in this respect (as far as I can tell), but when I've got nothing to do I'm quite content to just sit there and think.

People talk about browsing or gaming on their phone when they're on the toilet, or on the bus, or pretty much any waking moment as far as I can tell. If they don't do that they have a book, or they listen to music, or carry a book of crosswords or sudoku with them.

When I sit down and get a minute to myself, last thing I want to do is.. well.. anything? If I know I'll be on a plane for 3 hours, sure, I'll take a book or some music. But if I've just got a few minutes of time, sitting on a bus, or waiting for an appointment, I'm pretty happy to kick back and let the world go on by. Sometimes I'll think about the nature of reality and question how and why we perceive the way we do, or sometimes I'll think back and recount and interaction I have with someone in the near past. Sometimes I'll plan what I'm going to do for lunch, and other times I'll idly observe the trees in the wind and just be amazed by the complexity and depth to everything. Occasionally I'll just sit there on idle and zone out.

But I don't think I've ever sat down for a few minutes and felt like I wish I had a book or game to play.

There are plenty of times I've thought I'd like to know more about something and gone and read up on it online, countless times actually, and if you were working somewhere that left you with a lot of spare time, it's certainly how I'd kill it. I can't imagine life without the internet in that respect, the idea of asking yourself "Hmm, it would be good if I knew X" and then not being able to simply go look it up seems so... foreign.

Lonnystingray · #25 12-04-2012, 05:13 AM

You could try actually communicating with people/co-workers? Kike, in the real world, not via Facebook or text messages..

FreakyStyley69 · #26 12-04-2012, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Lonnystingray

You could try actually communicating with people/co-workers? Kike, in the real world, not via Facebook or text messages..

Again didn't read a thread.

Truktek2 · #27 12-04-2012, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by FreakyStyley69

Yeah read my post and you'd see. Oh no anybody in sales has no excuse. I guess its just my situation

Most people don't listen, they only like to talk. Maybe you could've updated your boss' contact list while you were up there?

Indiana Mike · #28 12-04-2012, 05:38 AM

I am old enough to remember life before many things that we now have . Technology exploded in a short period .

I will say we all ate ,had fun and no one died.

Some times I miss the peace ....

i_got_a_mohawk · #29 12-04-2012, 06:00 AM

Never been in the situation where there has been truly nothing to do at work, even when working in shops or at a bar, always managed to find something that was needing done.

Being a bit more career orientated now, certainly never nothing to do.

I'm sure it's the same for many and was the same for most of the past few generations.

Mike M. · #30 12-04-2012, 06:09 AM

My cell phone is pretty much just a phone and that's fine because that's all I wanted. It has internet capabilities but I'm not hooked up, per say. Truth is, I couldn't tell you the differance between an "ithis" from an "ithat" if my life depended on it. The only time I text is when responding to one I receive and my response is usually never more that a "okay, sounds good."

Each to thier own and I'm not knocking it, but I just have no use for all of the latest "ithose" offerings. During my "downtime" I've always done the same things like chillin' out a bit, read, have a bit of conversation with someone or maybe jotting my thoughts down on paper.

I just don't feel the need to have my cell phone chained to me. When I go to a friends house or go shopping I take it with me, but it stays in the car.

Relic · #31 12-04-2012, 06:18 AM

Books...newspaper....talk to people.... basically all the same stuff you can do now on a smart phone

it's no different now than it was before save for the medium and/or methodology.

Edit - I almost missed the "at work" part. I assume that you mean at work, but not on break or at lunch. Meh...I'd put the phone down and be finding something to do. The job market ain't what it used to be

dozicusmaximus · #32 12-04-2012, 08:22 AM

Cool kid phones are handy when taking a dump.
I just got one... I don't have a data plan. I didn't even really want it, but it was free so whatever. I use it for calling and texting.
If I could figure out how to get a NES or SNES game on the thing then I would feel different haha.

If I have a few min at work of some downtime. I usually go smoke or check TB. haha

bassfran · #33 12-04-2012, 08:27 AM

Well, I've never been tied to a beam 100' in the air before, but I seem to remember the old adage-

"If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."

blastoff99 · #34 12-04-2012, 08:46 AM

Just don't drop the phone!

hover · #35 12-04-2012, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Lonnystingray

You could try actually communicating with people/co-workers? Kike, in the real world, not via Facebook or text messages..

Why are you calling him a kike? That's not nice.

THand · #36 12-04-2012, 08:54 AM

Tied off to a beam years ago...I would have had a little notepad and pencil and draw...or write a letter...or write music...or read a book...or pull out the old school walkman and listen to a cassette or the radio.