Mobile phones - a blessing or a curse.

Just wondering what some of these peeps talk about for so long and when they actually do meet up with whom they've been rabbiting to do they still have a normal conversation or have they said it all on the phone.........

I remember the phonebox in the village.it wasnt a hardship as we knew nothing else.It wasnt just a phonebox though,it was a navigating tool for giving directions to our track,a meet up place for our gang as kids and to meet boyfriends out f parental view when older.
No good in emergencies though ,as we had no house phone till i was 15.If someone had needed an urgent ambulance ,by time youd run to the phonebox called and run back home theyd probably have pegged it.
I have a very basic brick phone that tolerates occasional washing machine events, dries out and sort of still works.Great for the rac if you are up a hill with engine failure,kids and dogs onboard after 7pm.....if you can get a signal.I have had to actually drive to signal points to be able to call someone...then get cut off often perhaps when a cloud passes the local mast.Never used the land line number that came with the broadband as calls so expensive.I dont like being called nor being expected to call anyone as it interrupts what i am doing ,so most contact via email when i have time.The cold callers are good for a rant at as stress relief though...if they can get through.I always give a made up phone number online,so I wondered how they got my number,but every active sim card number has probably been sold on as data very many times.

Got a smart phone - I probably use it too much in the day - but mainly for accessing the interwebby thing. It gets turned off (not just to silent) by 9pm and doesn't usually go back on till 9am. If there's an emergency, people can get me on the land line.

It mainly gets used for the camera (and emails when I'm at the dreaded day job, but need to answer someone about a pen that they want to order).

it's also been useful if the van's broken down, for looking up ideas on how to fix it at the roadside.

As with anything, it can be used for good or bad. But in the old days, when my VW beetle broke down, it was the Haynes manual and a lot of head scratching. Now, if the camper breaks down I can speak to a number of vastly more experienced guys and gals who can usually point me in the right direction in minutes.

I don't use my mobile phone often, but wouldn't be without it. Today, when I was feeling a bit miserable, I watched a short video of my granddaughter playing "drums" with wooden spoons on pots and pans. Cheered me right up, then when I got home my son phoned me up for a made-up game of counting with my grandson on the way home from pre-school. Priceless.

The camera comes in handy too.

or that you are deciding not to answer it.like me.I have left the phone to ring itself out when people have been here to their shock that i would not answer it.people just dump things to run to the summoning beast.I get texts which are a more leisurely way to get stuff.When in the wilds alone i keep it on lest i fall into a ravine so i can get pinged and found...does that really work?But then I often run out of charge...credit...signal bad patchy here.when no signal feels like shelter from the intrusion.

Thats not true as I never answer the phone , anyone that knows me knows that , and will either e mail or FB messenger me . The land line as far as I am concerned is for internet connection  or my wife's work as  mobiles do not have a signal , but thats ok ,cos I don't do them either