FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 13, 2021

by checking my math, can one even survive 8⅓ days on a mobile phone monthly?

200 / 31 = 6.45 minutes a day. It is slightly better during 30 day months.

Who the heck talks on a phone anymore?

I had the same plan and never went over the limit…

Would they let me keep all the left over minutes?

Two hundred minutes is 3 hours and 20 minutes. That would be about 2-3 average phone calls for some people I know, and they’re not even teenagers.

The first cell phone I personally owned (that is, not a company phone) had a 100 minute plan. I never exceeded the limit.

Much later I got ‘unlimited’ plans (most ‘unlimited’ plans have limitations buried in the fine print) and for calls not going near tech support I still mostly kept them short, under two minutes. Tech support calls would run up the minutes, of course. I’ve been on hold with Microsoft non-support for 90 minutes on several occasions.

I don’t think i’ve used 200 minutes talking on a cellphone in total since I got one 10 years ago. My annual catch up on the news Christmas calls to my 2 brothers last maybe 5 minutes combined between the 2 phone calls and i talk with them more than anyone else.

Thinking? That’s not really Peter’s strong suit.

Remember when cell plans limited your call time?

and then Peter forgets to charge his phone.

Nowadays, kids don’t even NEED talking minutes!

Wow… I totally forgot about “minutes”!! haha!! That was such a big thing back then! Remember how novel it was to have rollover minutes?? HA!! Man, cell phones have come a LOOOONG way!!

Memories. The days when we communicated by talking and not by texting…..

He’s a guy. Hopefully the extra minutes roll over.

Who talks on the phone? Oh this is 10+ years old…

As a teacher I recall a parent telling me how his high school aged daughter used up up their joint monthly phone plan in less than 10 days

Evidence that insanity is linked to the x-chromosome.

Forget the minutes…wait until he starts accruing roaming fees and later, per-text data fees…

Remember when mobile phone contracts limited minutes? Seems like an eternity, doesn’t it?

We got our first phones (Nokia Candy Bars) when I travelled two-three weeks each month for work. The plan had unlimited minutes between phones on the plan and lovely wife and I would camp out on our phones for hours at a stretch :-)

People use texts so much now instead of talking 200 is fine.But I HATE people who ask you a series of questions by text, forcing you, if you are so inclined, to take part in what seems like a never ending text a thon. Just talk and ask!! One interaction.