I Dont Have a Mobile !!

thelurch

I am 47, run my own small business and dont have a mobile. People can ring me in the office or a chosen few have my home number. My time in the car or on lunch are my own. People find this strange...even my wife, but I am happy with it !!

YFlyer

Respect

anniehoo

No friends so aaaw

ScumLord

But how...?? But, but... That's weird.

petes

Okay. Do you bum the use of other peoples phones though?

YFlyer

Insurgent wrote: »

Okay. Do you bum the use of other peoples phones though?

Like bum a fag

Genghiz Cohen

Billy-no-mates!
Billy-no-mates!
Billy-no-mates!
Billys got no mate!

Biggins

Your far better off.

Vain

thelurch wrote: »

I am 47, run my own small business and dont have a mobile. People can ring me in the office or a chosen few have my home number. My time in the car or on lunch are my own. People find this strange...even my wife, but I am happy with it !!

Sure the lurch cant talk only grunt.

Loopy

Love it:)

piby

My friend I salute you

thelurch

NO ! I Have loads of mates ! My 2 yr old son panics when he cant find his soother. I put a few of you in that catagory, You need constant soothing ! I dont, probably have more mates than you, but they dont need to know when I am having a coffee or when I am on my way when I told them I will meet them there an hour ago. When I make a date I will be there...Simple !!

davyjose

Why didn't you say so. I've been trying to call you for weeks - I just thought you were ignorant.

prendy

thelurch wrote: »

NO ! I Have loads of mates ! My 2 yr old son panics when he cant find his soother. I put a few of you in that catagory, You need constant soothing ! I dont, probably have more mates than you, but they dont need to know when I am having a coffee or when I am on my way when I told them I will meet them there an hour ago. When I make a date I will be there...Simple !!

old school, i like it!;)

thelurch

Vain wrote: »

Sure the lurch cant talk only grunt.

Take your foot out of your mouth, you make no sense........

TPD

I can appreciate how nice it must be being 'off the radar', but surely the benefits a phone would grant in an emergency are worth it? It's basically like a form of insurance in this day and age.

ScumLord

It's the fact you run a business and have no phone that amazes me.

big b

ScumLord wrote: »

It's the fact you run a business and have no phone that amazes me.

maybe he works with deaf mutes?

KeyLimePie

ScumLord wrote: »

It's the fact you run a business and have no phone that amazes me.

Well none of the suppliers of anything have my boss' phone cause if they did she'd be getting cold calls selling her things at all hours !

And I'd rather not have a phone either it'd make things more..simple =D

ScumLord

KeyLimePie wrote: »

Well none of the suppliers of anything have my boss' phone cause if they did she'd be getting cold calls selling her things at all hours !

And I'd rather not have a phone either it'd make things more..simple =D

It's not so much the suppliers but the employees that need the go ahead from the boss, if they head out to get supplies they may need to double check with boss. It's just unusual to see a boss thats detached from the business like that. It's probably great having a boss that cant ring you on a whim.

P.C.

Hey, thelurch - you can have my phone.

I will swop it for a digital camera. You can take over my contract, and I have a spare phone.

Maybee I will get some peace and quiet .

Terry

I went 6 months without a mobile phone last year or the year before (can't remember). It really didn't bother me.

In the end one friend bought a SIM card and the other gave me an old phone and they made me use it.
They were pissed off that they couldn't text me.

magick

i get the same reactions when ppl ask for my mobile and i say i dont use one. I dont like them and never have tbh

Sharpshooter

I got mine when I got rid of the land line, the feckin bill for that was ridiculous, between line rental and VAT and the charge for the phone I was paying out more for that lot than I was for calls.

If I forget to take my mobile with me I don't miss it tbh but I do like to have it in case something happened to my dad and I couldn't be contacted.

Gummy Panda

Fair play OP but I love my iPhone

SoupyNorman

I'd say not having a mobile lessens complications involved in having an affair no-end.


My mobile is always on silent, I dont text back half the people who text me or if I do its the next day.

Actually, now that I think of it the main purpose of my phone is to ring the GF's phone because she's lost it.

civis_liberalis

OP,

If you run a business, no matter how big or small, being non-contactable when you want/need is probably a luxury many in your position don't have.

If you have a mobile, you are expected to be available nearly 24/7.

SoupyNorman

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Fair play OP but I love my iPhone

Smug iPhone owner alert!!

aloevera

wow, i wouldnt live withouy my mobile.

fair play! op said your expected to be availabel 24.7. i think it depends what type of business you run. if the opeing hours are X to Y then fair enough - those are the hours you should be available, so why need a mobile.

however, if you were on the road/not home/in the office, would you not be afraid if something happened - an emergency type situation ?!?

SoupyNorman

aloevera wrote: »

wow, i wouldnt live withouy my mobile.

fair play! op said your expected to be availabel 24.7. i think it depends what type of business you run.

I think he sells cherries from a pram in Moore Street.

Gummy Panda

SoupyNorman wrote: »

Smug iPhone owner alert!!

God damnit!!!

I knew that picture would come back to haunt me :pac:

civis_liberalis

SoupyNorman wrote: »

I think he sells cherries from a pram in Moore Street.

Appils, paaares an' choclits as well luv.

jester77

but... but... mobile porn is the nouveau way

phasers

I lost my purse today and it had 60 euro in it...

What, this isn't a thread where we talk about stuff other people don't care about?



although I am really pissed off that my purse is gone, and I really wanted to tell the internet for some reason

kelle

Amazing, OP. My cousin is 46, has her own business and 3 school-going children and refuses to purchase a mobile phone either. Like yourself she says she can be contacted at her salon, and when she goes shopping she wishes to be left in peace.

I just couldn't imagine it, yet I know I managed the first 28-and-a-half years of my life without one!

Wibbs

civis_liberalis wrote: »

OP,

If you run a business, no matter how big or small, being non-contactable when you want/need is probably a luxury many in your position don't have.

Well I run a biz and I didn't get a moby until 5 years ago. I also switch it off/ignore work stuff after work hours. People built huge biz empires with no mobiles. It's BS and a con to think you cant now. I agree with the OP it's a soother. I used to go fishing for hours. Half way up mountains. No problem. I got a phone and woe betide me if I forgot it. The grief from mates and family. I mean nothing changed. It's all perception.

Yes they're bloody useful, but not as nearly as indispensable as most think.

If you have a mobile, you are expected to be available nearly 24/7.

The latter explains why I switch off the former.

SoupyNorman

Wibbs wrote: »

Well I run a biz and I didn't get a moby until 5 years ago. I also switch it off/ignore work stuff after work hours. People built huge biz empires with no mobiles. It's BS and a con to think you cant now. I agree with the OP it's a soother. I used to go fishing for hours. Half way up mountains. No problem. I got a phone and woe betide me if I forgot it. The grief from mates and family. I mean nothing changed. It's all perception.

Yes they're bloody useful, but not as nearly as indispensable as the word Moby

/laugh

easyeason3

OP what do you do if you see someone in a shop you don't really like???

This is where the mobile comes in handy, you can ring your voicemail & pretend you are an an important long winded call so you can avoid talking to the pr!ck you're trying to avoid.

Thats the main benefit for me anyway, I hate making small talk with people I don't like :mad::mad::mad:

poisonated

fair play if your happier without one
To be honest though I dont understand when people say that it frees them up because if you really want to escape you can just turn your phone off yet at the same time you can make emergency calls or if you are bored you can ring up friends

SuperTyper

Fair play:D

Iwasfrozen

YFlyer wrote:

Like bum a fag

Reported.

ScumLord

SoupyNorman wrote: »

I'd say not having a mobile lessens complications involved in having an affair no-end.

We where actually talking about this at work last week, a 50+ year old sales rep was saying how mobiles make the affairs easier. He said him and friends where at a hotel in the rare old times before mobiles only to hear the reception make the announcement that this one is being called by that one who they all knew where married to other people.

Maybe it depends on the business weather or not being in contact 24/7 is essential or not. Imagine if your drug dealer didn't have a mobile, how the hell did people buy drugs before mobiles?

dunnomede?

want some cool whhip?

joey54

Gone are the days of being able to make plans to meet up and not having to worry about them not showing up. Mobiles have led to a severe disimprovement in peoples time keeping abilities!

stepbar

I only know of one person who, like you, hasn't a mobile phone. I find it slightly weird and if I was your wife, annoying!

joes girls

sorry couldnt do it has two phones one has free texts the other is bill and can talk for free every nite after 8 and all weekend.......but i would say alot of my friend wish i had no phone...:p