BRRRRRRRRRING BRRRRRRRING

[monster]

I wonder why she would be avoiding him?

[DucksNuts]

hahaha look at that little barrage, all saying the same thing.

[freshnesschronic]

Old people win. Everyone happy? Now go ask your 20 year old kids how important their cell phones are to them.

[DucksNuts]

YOU are missing the point.

If cells are that important....she doesnt want to talk to you.

[monster]

I hope you aren't majoring in anything requiring logical reasoning.

Here's your sign

[piercehawkeye45]

Fresh, I am your age and I don't think my cell phone is life. I keep it on me and try to answer whenever I can but I too will avoid calls (usually work).

How many times do you call her a day? week?

How long do these phone calls last?

[cowhead]

ducknuts really really has a point there.... there are a million things you are not reading between the lines... pick up a pair of non-emotional bi-focals and take a closer look. at anyrate, there are some questions you need to be asking yourself about why she's NOT answering the phone or calling back for almost 1/2 a day. and I am not a proponent of jealousy, quite the opposite, but. . . . just think about it, don't act/react just yet.. just mull it over.

[Aliantha]

Sometimes I answer my cell phone and other times I don't. Sometimes I return text messages and other times I don't. I was the same when I was a uni student (college student).

If I don't feel like talking, I don't talk and if I don't feel like talking to you I wont answer your calls or texts. This doesn't necessarily mean I don't like you btw. It just means I'm not interested in talking to you at your convenience. I'll do it at my own, or not at all.

Such is life. Get over it or let the aggravation drive you crazy. Either way, it's not going to make me pay any extra attention to your calls. It has nothing to do with age. It has only to do with patience.

[Sundae]

Fresh you're just going to have to accept that she is someone who doesn't check her phone all the time. You've told her it stresses you out and that you worry when you don't hear from her and it hasn't made a difference. Therefore you have a choice whether to keep letting it wind you up, or simply accept it.

I know people (no, not just OLD people) who genuinely aren't ruled by their phones. She's obviously one of them.

BUT. And it's a big but. You can bet your life that if it was important enough to her (new relationship, waiting on test results, family crisis) she would have the phone in her hand all day.

I'm notoriously difficult to get hold of amongst my circle of accquaintances. Sometimes I'll get a call at work from my Mum checking I'm okay, because one of my friends hasn't been able to get hold of me. If I haven't paid my phone bill I'll sometimes leave my phone off for two weeks until I can afford to pay it. It's strangely liberating.

Try backing off. See if you can leave it 12 hours before you try again. Then 24. Then 48.

[be-bop]

Sorry I'm with fresh on this one there is nothing more frustrating than trying to get a hold of someone on their mobile and they don't answer.
My wife is the perfect example I've lost count of the times I've needed to contact her for various reasons and because her phone is in the bottom of the huge handbag she lugs around she never hears it.
Once she was at an old lady friends house and the old dear was saying "can you hear that ringing noise"" no said my good lady wife" It was me trying to get a hold of her cos we needed to get papers signed to let our house sale go through..I was driving around the town and phoning everyone to try and find her

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by be-bop

Sorry I'm with fresh on this one there is nothing more frustrating than trying to get a hold of someone on their mobile and they don't answer.

Yeah, but 24/7? "Cell phones are seriously life"? Anyone who gets angry at having to leave a voicemail at any hour of any day is going to develop anxiety issues in five years.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by be-bop

Sorry I'm with fresh on this one there is nothing more frustrating than trying to get a hold of someone on their mobile and they don't answer.
...

[old man rant] I can remember when we had phones that actually had wires! These wires not only connected the speaker part to the other part of the phone, they went from that part into the wall! And we had to spin this round thing a bunch of times to call someone. And we had to wait until we were somewhere where there was a phone, and the person you wanted to talk to was somewhere where there was a phone. There were these things called "pay phones" along the streets. And we were happy we could call people. It was less time than the mail. [/old man rant]

Do you camplain at the length of time it takes a fax to be sent, too?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Do you camplain at the length of time it takes a fax to be sent, too?

I do. Scanning, converting to PDF, and e-mailing is so much faster and more likely to go through.

[Shawnee123]

Sorry, but it is kind of rude to assume that because it's your business that those of us whose business it is not can turn off our ears and not listen to what amounts to us to be inane caterwauling.

We are an egocentric society. It's no different than the person who thinks they've got the only car on the road, the jerk who lets doors slam in stranger's faces, the person who spits big old hockers in the middle of the sidewalk, the coworker who cracks every bone in their body during meetings; you are assuming your business supercedes everyone else's business and trumps a modicum of class and awareness of the world around you. It's a "look at me look at me" world and frankly I don't always care to look.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Do you camplain at the length of time it takes a fax to be sent, too?

That reminds me of a Rita Rudner joke when she talked about our impatient society and how we'll stand in front of a microwave tapping our feet and looking at the timer and muttering "come on, come on...I don't have all minute!)

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Sorry, but it is kind of rude to assume that because it's your business that those of us whose business it is not can turn off our ears and not listen to what amounts to us to be inane caterwauling.

We are an egocentric society. It's no different than the person who thinks they've got the only car on the road, the jerk who lets doors slam in stranger's faces, the person who spits big old hockers in the middle of the sidewalk, the coworker who cracks every bone in their body during meetings; you are assuming your business supercedes everyone else's business and trumps a modicum of class and awareness of the world around you. It's a "look at me look at me" world and frankly I don't always care to look.

I hear what you are saying, but does that mean if I'm standing in line with my wife, I'm not allowed to talk to her?