I Dont Have a Mobile !!

thelurch · 11-06-2009 04:37PM #1

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 · 11-06-2009 04:38PM

Respect

anniehoo · 11-06-2009 04:39PM

No friends so aaaw

ScumLord · 11-06-2009 04:39PM

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

petes · 11-06-2009 04:39PM

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

YFlyer · 11-06-2009 04:39PM

Insurgent wrote: »

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

Like bum a fag

Genghiz Cohen · 11-06-2009 04:40PM

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

Biggins · 11-06-2009 04:41PM

Your far better off.

Vain · 11-06-2009 04:43PM

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 · 11-06-2009 04:43PM

Love it:)

piby · 11-06-2009 04:44PM

My friend I salute you

thelurch · 11-06-2009 04:48PM

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 · 11-06-2009 04:49PM

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

prendy · 11-06-2009 04:50PM

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 · 11-06-2009 04:50PM

Vain wrote: »

Sure the lurch cant talk only grunt.

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

TPD · 11-06-2009 04:55PM

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 · 11-06-2009 04:58PM

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

big b · 11-06-2009 05:41PM

ScumLord wrote: »

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

maybe he works with deaf mutes?

KeyLimePie · 11-06-2009 05:43PM

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 · 11-06-2009 05:47PM

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. · 11-06-2009 05:53PM

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

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Terry · 11-06-2009 05:59PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:09PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:09PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:14PM

Fair play OP but I love my iPhone

SoupyNorman · 11-06-2009 06:17PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:17PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:18PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Fair play OP but I love my iPhone

Smug iPhone owner alert!!

aloevera · 11-06-2009 06:25PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:27PM

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 · 11-06-2009 06:28PM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

Smug iPhone owner alert!!

God damnit!!!

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

I Dont Have a Mobile !!

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