A day in the life
There I am, sitting in my comfy chair and half dozing.
My mobile phone rings.
I grab the phone but accidentally press the sleep button [on the side of the phone where I would naturally grasp].
Phone goes dead.
Fire up the mobile phone again.
Caller phones me back.
I go to answer [keeping well away from the fucking sleep/on/off button].
Somehow I manage to launch the browser which naturally covers the Answer icon.
By the time I get rid of the browser and find the Answer icon, the caller has gone again.
Third time lucky – caller phones me again.
I manage to get the Answer icon to work after a load of futile flicking.
Have conversation [peppered with apologies from my end and a tinge of annoyance from the other end].
Hang up phone.
In process of putting phone back in my pocket I somehow hit the Return Last Call icon.
Manage to hang up before the poor sod gets to pck up.
Caller calls be back wanting to know why I was ringing him back and why the fuck did I hang up on him just as he answered.
More grovelling apologies.
I never had that kind of problem with the old rotary dial Bakelite phone……….
Mobile phones are irritating the way they sometimes ring just a few times before the caller is invited to record a message, and then I have to pay to return the call. That never happened with the manual dial Bakelite phone, until business firms attached tape ansaphone devices to them.
The golden days of no “hold” music and no answering machines! The ony problem with them was that the cord always got tangled.
Oh, don’t get me started with fucking smart phones and their fucking super sensitive touch screens. Just getting the thing out of your pocket when it rings activates a dozen apps while simultaneously cutting off the caller. I’m seriously considering going back to my old Nokia dumb phone, which does calls and texts and even emails if you want, but has actual buttons that are quite difficult to press in error. And it’s small, light, waterproof, dustproof and bombproof. Brilliant little piece of kit. Doesn’t have the computing power of my Samsung, but I’ve got a computer anyway, so that’s not really an issue.
I’m seriously thinking of doing the same. I just downgraded Herself’s phone [to one with better buttons] and am thinking of robbing her old one. Calls and text only!
Good to see you’ve got it all together there.
All together? I doubt that. The last time I had it all together was around forty years ago.
Is that a usb cable on the right of your old bakelite rotary dial phone?
If so, that’s not just any old bakelite rotary dial phone, it is a Magical & Special bakelite rotary dial phone.
Grand old twin core flex [disconnected]. Maybe that’s what is causing problems with my Interwebs fibre connection?