Anyone lived with no phone in recent times, last few years? I’m thinking about just not having a phone. I can email the VA. I don’t get calls other than telemarketing/scams. It just seems like a socially mandatory bill. I just don’t see the point. Now that I live in suburban hell if I need help I can just yell outside. The neighbors call the police all the time about noise or whatnot. Am I wrong?
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Do you have family you want to talk to?
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911 is an important reason to keep your phone in case of an emergency…that’s all I can think of.
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What little family I have is never in a hurry to talk to me so email is fine. As far as calling 911 I refer to public enemy. The one tome I called 911 it was busy over and over again. I was holding my girlfriends leg closed where she was hit by a boat propeller. Should have had her hold it closed and drove myself, the bill for the ambulance was $11,000 and it was a 2.5 mile drive that we waited 40min to show up. I’ve sewed myself closed before.
That scar on my finger was 10 stitches from a Boy Scout first aid kit. Hard pic to get with my iPad. It goes around my finger.
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man, you must be one tough hombre. wow…ouch…no way I could do that.
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Ylu dont need cell service to make 911 call
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I think most folks could do it. It’s a matter feeling like you need to and feeling like you can. Stitches don’t hurt nearly as much as the fear of the injury itself. It’s how people survived before modern medicine. But now triple antibiotic ointments and sterile trauma kits in our first aid bags.
No man, you really should have a phone, even if it’s a basic flip phone.
You never know when you’ll be facing an emergency
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What about those”burner” phones. I could just leave a prepay phone in the emergency box. I just hate paying $100 a month for like 10min of phone use.
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Phone bill charges are ridiculous but a phone is good to have in an emergency and just for plain ol convenience. Maybe try it without a phone for one or two months and see how much you miss it.
I can think of a million examples of why having a phone is convenient. Maybe you could live without one but I couldn’t. I live on my own (I guess you do too) and I need to make calls to make doctors appointments, arrange meetings with my case manager and counselor, call about getting repairs done in the apartment. My life isn’t that complicated but I often make calls.
For example, if I want a dentist appointment quickly it’s a lot faster to get up at 10:00 in the morning and call and make an appointment for the next week then it is to email back and forth when would be a good time for an appointment. And looking for my new dentist would have taken weeks by email but instead I called 6 dentists in an hour and found the exact one I wanted. Convenience.
Dealing with social security or Media-cal would be a hassle without a phone. I recently applied for SNAP benefits which required many phone calls back and forth. It was more convenient than emailing back and forth. I mean we could get mail across the country by the Pony Express but it’s much more convenient to put a letter in a mailbox down the street.
Yeah that could work
I would carry a phone when you leave your house especially
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