JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for July 29, 2021

Me too

My mother-in-law repeated many times the tale of a coworker whose child was fatally injured and spent the final hour of life calling for the mommy who never came.

(Bound to affect any hearer by the tenth telling.)

I’ve learned a handy new word!

“With reality”?

If I weren’t for my kids, I would have been gotten rid of my cell phone.

Because she may need to get in contact with you in a family emergency, Joe?

I’m with ‘eyebrows’.

Neologism. (New word) Funny to see the acronym for NO MObile PHone combined with a mutation of Greek word for fear. The Greek word for law is nomos. So, if we were using both parts of the term in the same language it would = fear of the law. The police see it a lot.

Trump made him like this.

Remember when we only had land lines? Sometimes 2, 3, or 4 party lines? Ah, the good old days LOL

That’s misspelled. It’s nomophonia, is in, “Whoops, no mo’ phone.”

Back when we just started dating, my wife checked the cell signal at my place, which was a bit out in the woods, and then bought me a cell phone and put me on her family plan. She figured it was cheaper than calling my landline. Plus, it was a 90 minute drive to her apartment and she wanted me to call if I was delayed.

As the owner of a medical practice I felt I had to have a cellphone for business. as a parent I felt the same way. Now that I have sold the practice and am in semi-retirement 1000 miles away I don’t need the business phone. I do keep the personal phone, but since we are both working from home I don’t need it unless one or both of us go out. The longer it’s turned off the better.

Crunchy, you are speaking my language. I don’t like following the crowd.

I could hardly agree with more with Crunchy. If I don’t need my phone, it stays home. Life, death and everything that happens in between is going to happen. I didn’t need one for decades, I can still live w/o it. “What about emergencies?” Puleeze.

And now we know one reason while Captain Ruiz is so cranky.

She can’t reach Crunchy when she needs to remind him to stop and pick up dinner on his way home.

Me too, Crunchy! I turn my cell phone on in the car to listen to my audiobook. I rarely use it to make a phone call. And don’t give out the number except to family. Of course, I’m retired and home most of the time.

High fivin’ Crunchy from the West Coast

I love hiking in places where I have no connection.

For my sister/husband they depend on smart phone, so sister and I keep in contact, the husband for business and family, they live towns apart.

So do I.

“You’re out of touch, I’m out of time…” (Hall & Oates)

I’ve been know to leave my cell phone at home, on purpose.

“I agree” he said, typing on his laptop while watching tv, listening to an audiobook and composing a text!

Nomophobia, not to be confused with om-nom-ophobia, which is the fear of not having anything to snack on.

Fear of former Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo?

Came in handy, when my car was rammed by another one a few weeks ago. I called 911 as soon as I overcame the initial shock. Then my insurance co…

My first cell phone was a Motorola bag phone the company provided for me. I’ve had many iterations since. I finally got a “smart” phone a year ago which I hate and am tempted to go back to a flip phone. The smart phone is the biggest marketing platform ever foisted on the human race.

It should be called “nomorephoneic”

Of course you do, Crunchy.