Daily Check In Thread For All!!! #72

   I was not criticizing the need for a cell phone .... but why does anyone who is having financial problems need an expensive topline I-phone? That was my point .... even giving an example of my Mothers former caregiver. Actually, while her husband was out of work, the caregiver bought the phone I mentioned - and actually had her service cancelled months later for non-payment of the cell phone bill.

   While I didn't mention it, a person driving while sitting with a cell phone next to their ear bugs me to no end. It's freakin dangerous to all us other folk driving! My youngest daughter used to do that until she hit a deer and totalled her 5-year old car. No one was hurt, except her insurance bill the next payment period - and her destroyed car.

   Both of my daughters have cell phones. For my youngest - it is her only phone - no land line! For my oldest - her job takes her over a three county area and she has no office space - other than a desk at home. So yeah - cell phones have their use obviously. The question was .... who needs that $600. high-tech phone? Oh yeah - MYself did have a good point with some of the abuses of cell phone use too!

Hey .... good morning out there ........

   Rain is coming - dark with no sun out - it's 35 degrees out - some of the storm sewers are starting to back-up. At least .... the high piles of snow - which were getting dangerous at some corners for lack of vision driving - have reduced at lot so far. The driveway at 8am was an accident waiting to happen. It looked like innocent slush - about an inch - but the slush was covering black ice over the black asphalt. Gizmo couldn't even gain traction on it!

   Good news though .... my boy saw three dogs this morning ... yeah!!! He was a happy camper! Maybe .... we're actually getting out of this terrible winter.

Hope everyone has a good day.

Rob & Gizmo

   EXCUSE ME!

   While my point of the original post yesterday was about how some people who can't pay their most common monthly bills will sometimes buy an expensive high-tech phone ..... and WHY would they do that? And i gave a true life example of someone i knew who did that.

   Somehow, this has been blown out of proportion. I guess I did commit the mortal sin of not properly referring to the phone. I re-checked my posts - and by God I did call it: 1) a $600. phone - then 2) a $600. cell phone - then 3) a $600. high tech phone. But never did i call it a "smart phone"! Boy, I'm a dumb ass!

   I thought i was making a point that some people really had no business spending a lot of money on a cell phone - based on how much money they made and bills they had. It never was a "cell phone" vs a "smart phone" debate with what i wrote!

   I used three examples including both of my daughters about the need for a cell phone ..... not the cost of a cell phone - or the value of a smart phone.

   Well Carl, you have appropriately put me down - and of course, for reasons not related at all to what I wrote or what I meant. I thought this was a support forum - not a competition forum.

   I can't really believe that my miswording "cell" for "smart" could bring about such a passionate attack - and with reinforcements as well from Carls group.

   Carl ..... you haven't won. But I have withdrawn - my purpose was to help - not to compete in this forum!

ADDIOS AMIGOS

Gizzy and I will miss many of you!