Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 12, 2022

okay… O_o

My wife and I used to live in a house where the landlord lived downstairs and was a good friend of the family. One day he told us that his answering machine wasn’t working so my wife took his phone upstairs so that she could call it with our phone and hear what was wrong. After calling the landlord’s phone, it rang so she answered it. Fifteen minutes later I was able to stop laughing. We never did figure out what was wrong with the answering machine.

Can you actually text yourself? I’ve never thought of that before…

And how does one texts oneself? Unless one has multiple numbers or messaging accounts, that is.

will my flip phone text?

I use a White board to write down Reminders . Erase when no longer needed ;-)

I think that use case has been entirely overtaken by setting an actual reminder.

That’s what my calendar and alerts are for.

I get tired of Wi-Fi texting me all the time.

I think.. by definition if you know how to text (and do) you can not.. be a plugger.

I do use email like that, mostly to transfer things from iOS or Android to my computer. I prefer email over text because I have decades of email history and don’t like looking in several different places for information.

Must be hard to see through opaque white lenses.

I send emails to myself as reminders but also as a convenient way of storing information for future retrieval.

I just went from a smartphone back to a flip phone so I can lie and tell people I can’t take a text from them anymore.

“Somebody likes me !!!!”

I’m such a Plugger that I don’t even own a phone like that. Mine is wired into the system.

I don’t get many calls or text messages – less than maybe 5 a month – including the political ones I get from “the other party” than I am with.

Basically texts say “ok” as is I text husband as he won’t hear if I yell that dinner is ready and he has very limited phone call minutes. He then texts back “ok” so i know he got the message.

Sometimes this will be varied to a big text as in “I don’t have chicken noodle – chicken rice ok?” Followed by, of course “ok”.

Yesterday he kept getting upset with me as he was sending me questions about something by text – something that I had not realized he was doing as rare for him to do so. Then I was sitting downstairs and heard two odd beeps very low (not my ringer). So I texted about it. Not sure how I got those beeps as something had gone wrong and the phone itself was not ringing and it took him 45 minutes to figure out what was going – when all fails – turn off, wait, turn back on. I truly HATE this new phone I had to get as my service was changed to a different kind of 4G!

I figured out between our 2 cell phones (with prepaid rates) and our house wired phone- we had to switch in Nov 2020 to fiber optics from copper wire or lose service other than phone – co/emergency call (with no minutes included) it costs bout $10 a phone call to make a call.