Not one of my better days.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Rough day today.  First I gotta fill in the back story.
  I've always had a flip phone. I've had this last one for 6 or 7 years but it finally gave out on me.
I tell my son I need a new phone and I'm going to the Vorizen store.   He says your in for a shock dad cause they don't sell flip phones any more. 

Wwwwwhhhhaaaattttt????    That's a problem. I don't want, need, or know how to use a smart phone.   I tell my wife I'm just not going to get a phone.   She says, uh huh, okay.

So off we go to the Vorizen store where they sell me a smart phone loaded with games and apps an tV stuff and all kinds of junk I will never use.

Now we get to my bad day.

This thing has spell check. Allrighty then, not such a bad thing. BUT the dog gone thing also changes what I type when it thinks it should.   And it don't consult me first. I'm sending messages that I didn't type and make no sense.   And now today, I'm working on a timber bid and I text one of the guys that buys logs from me and his name is Urie.

So I type "Hey URIE, my log price sheet is over a month old are there any price changes I need to know about?"

But the dog gone phone sent "Hey CUTIE, my log price sheets are over a month old,

Needless to say my day went down hill real quick from there.

Just exactly how many decades do you supposed its gonna take for this to be forgotten?

I really hate technology.

[Raider Bill]

You need a jitterbug phone.
Many of the old people use them
😆 🤣 😂

[firefighter ontheside]

Hey Cutie, I bet it will be forgotten in a few months

[barbender]

😂😂😂 yeah I've had a few mishaps with spellcheck myself, even on these pages as I do all of my web surfing on my phone. Which brings me to the main problem with smartphones- I am such am information addict, having always available internet access in my pocket and poor self control means I spend waay too much time online every day. Sometimes I have other things I should be tending to, but I get lonely and find myself on the Forum instead😁 Ah well🤷‍♂️

[barbender]

A processor operator coworker of mine I hadn't worked with in quite a while wrote me one day, "how you doin'?" Now this guy divorced about 10 years ago and has been kind of an item with the 45+ ladies singles scene since, and I thought it was a little odd he wrote me out of the blue. Pretty soon, "oops that was meant for someone else"😂😂 It was meant for one of his lady friends, the booger. 
  
  Had a truck driver this winter, he was new. He drove for a company we hired to haul for the winter, I'd only had him on my job for 3 days or so. Quiet guy. He would write me texts to let me know his arrival time, then he left me a voice text which worked pretty well. "Hello this is Mike, I'll be there in half an hour." Then he sent me another. Not seeming a chatty type, I was surprised he sent me another message. I opened it and he was singing a song in kind of a drunken cowboy yodeling fashion about "bowlegged women"😂😂 I'm thinking, what the heck? He seemed pretty shy and quiet, so it struck me as out of character. Well then about 2 minutes later another message "that wasn't supposed to be you it was supposed to be to a lady friend of mine!"😂😂😂 The period of technology I guess🤷‍♂️😂

[Southside]

Don't worry Cutie, I suspect your buyer will forget about it way before we do.  :D

[Peter Drouin]

My fingers are too big, so I talk to it, and it will text for me. BUT!!!
Look what it says before I send.
I have friends will text back, What are you saying?
I see it whole sh^*%
I better send another one fast.  :D :D :D :D

[barbender]

Yes many of the guys I work with do the text to speech, it's like translating a foreign tongue the stuff I have to figure out😬😁

[sawguy21]

I was in the same boat, flip phone gave out so had to replace it. My wife was ill and I needed to be available. The whiz kid salesman is rattling off all this gosh golly gee whiz technology will do and said Hold it, just a DanG minute. He stopped yapping so I asked Can I make a call?
Yes. Can I receive a call? Uh yeah. Can I get call display and voice messages? Yeah. Then that's all I want! I have no intention of reprogramming the orbiting space station. He looked at me and said I will probably never use 10% of what it is capable of, I replied I am fine with that. 

[B.C.C. Lapp]

You need a jitterbug phone.
Many of the old people use them
😆 🤣 😂

I aint that old.   I dont think any way.     I just never needed more than text and talk.

[Raider Bill]

You need a jitterbug phone.
Many of the old people use them
😆 🤣 😂

I aint that old.   I dont think any way.     I just never needed more than text and talk.

Jitterbug bug 2
. Flip phone and it has big buttons.
Jitterbug Flip2 | Best Big Button Flip Phone for Seniors | Lively

[GRANITEstateMP]

B.C.C Lapp, aka Cutie to your log buyers. I'm 41, have zero desire to ever have a phone that doesn't flip open (unless Nextel and those yellow bricks come back).  I got me a new flip phone last year, from Verizon. It turned out my old phone was still under warranty, so now I've got a spare flipper!

Barbender, what you said about getting sucked into the phone vs doing what ya planned on doing is why I don't have a fancy phone. My willpower... not so strong!

[gspren]

Back when I had an official job (10 years ago) I needed a new phone, because of security regulations we were not allowed cameras at work so I tell the cell phone salesman I want a phone without a camera. After he stared at me a minute he said "but they're free" I reiterated I can't have a phone with a camera, he couldn't understand but he looked and didn't have one so I left and tried another place that had a basic flipper without a camera. Since I retired it doesn't matter but I wonder if they have any now, back then some guys got the phones with cameras and either left them at home or parked outside the gate and left their phone in the car.

[Jeff]

Ah thats nothin! 

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=16701.0

[moodnacreek]

I don't carry a phone. If I did no work would ever get done. If I had employees it would be different. Everybody wants price and availability but that means nothing to me as most will never show up so let em find me if they really want lumber. Cell phones are the rudest thing ever invented. Why stop to talk to someone when they will constantly answer their phone? I do keep a flip phone put away to have when I go to camp where there is no reception, thank God. My wife bought me one of those old folks phones but as soon as I get in the mountains it doesn't work, probably just as well.

[trimguy]

Jeff, That was funny !

[Old Greenhorn]

Ah thats nothin!

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=16701.0

Yeah, I read that thread a year or so ago and it's still funny. I'll have to remember to ask Kevin on Saturday when I finally meet him, if he has recovered from that yet. Timely post Jeff, it will add to the conversation on Saturday. :D :D :D :D ;D

[Jeff]

Look far enough and you should find a picture of Kevy showing up here to the pigroast that year wrapped in a towel. ;)

[Southside]

Jeff - that reminds me of an event from a few years before that happened. We all had been issued "alpha-numeric" pagers where the message sender could basically send a text from a computer to your pager, the sender was identified at the beginning of the message.  We were at a training event when all of our pagers went off at the same time - that usually meant training was over and it was time to go to work, but this was different.  We all stood there reading line by line, it was from the unit CO - going by memory here there was a reference to some Foo Fighters song, missing your warm body last night, and other details that can't even be posted in the restricted section.  About the same time we all looked at each other, rolled our eyes, and turned away so nobody would bust out laughing as the CO was within ear shot.  Oh - and we were home at the time, so......yea, it was funny, but not good.     

[Old Greenhorn]

Look far enough and you should find a picture of Kevy showing up here to the pigroast that year wrapped in a towel. ;)

With all due respect to both you and Kevin, I will take a polite 'pass' on that opportunity for further research. I have an imagination and that is good enough. ;D :D

[Dave Shepard]

Ah thats nothin!

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=16701.0

I thought of this immediately when I read the op. 
I've had a few mistakes, and a few close calls. I wear contacts so I don't smash into things with the Jeep. Makes reading the phone difficult. 

[Ljohnsaw]

I've been using a Rugby from Samsung for the last 9 years buying replacements off eBay for $5-$15.

Now I have a new flip phone!  Back in November or December, AT&T sent me a new (really, really crappy) flip phone with a note saying my Rugby phone was not going to work come February when they upgrade the network and said they were going to disable my phone in 2 weeks.

I was having none of that!  Called them up and said I wanted a better phone - they had nothing in a flip.  So I went to a AT&T store and found what I wanted, a Sonim X3.  Wrap it up!  "Sorry, don't have any in stock and I can't sell it to you anyway - reserved for First Responders (water proof, shock proof), but they don't want them, they want iPhones."

I couldn't believe my ears.  I gave them a piece of my mind as I stormed out.  Tried another store, same story.  Called AT&T again and got a helpful person (for once).  He sold me the phone and it was $60 cheaper than in the store.  Its a great phone and works great.

[thecfarm]

I have a cheapy trac phone, Flip phone
The only reason I have one is because of the wife. She wants me to be able to call her when I drop on a tree on me. 
I had a small trac phone, not a flip one in my front pocket. I picked a big rock up and put the rock against my leg. Hit the screen and that phone was gone!!! Then I went to flip phone. Much better. I think I have one more of the flip phone tucked away. I like them, they are small, fit in my pocket nicely.

[WDH]

Flip-Phoners :D :D. 

[Southside]

Another rock story from Ray.   :D