Simply..at a loss....

15/3/2018

..without my phone! Have you felt this too?

I forgot to take my phone to the city. Who knew I was so dependent on it? When the person I was meeting didn't show up, when I needed to check if the ferry was running (strong winds forecast and a thirty mile trip to find out), when I needed to fix a time for a lift home, when I wanted to photograph the baby llamas at the University of Glasgow....the list goes on!

How did we live without mobile phones??

17 Comments

Lucille link

16/3/2018 01:16:54 am

It does now feel like a missing limb although I do try to leave it at home on purpose sometimes. For example if going to the supermarket I reason that any call can wait until I get home, and even if someone wanted to add something late to the list - too bad! But I do remember pre-mobiles - waiting over two hours at a shopping centre for someone who was supposed to rendezvous with us after she'd done her own shopping. It was deeply frustrating. I suppose she might not have answered her mobile or had no signal, but we would have left a message and told her we were going home!
I think we must have had to be more organised. We'd do less 'on the fly', we'd have a map and timetable with us and have lower expectations of what we could achieve. I daresay we were more often inconvenienced too. I often think about this. My camera and checking facilities are the things I would miss most without a phone on a longer trip.

Freda

16/3/2018 03:02:06 pm

I do agree with the lower expectations of what we could achieve - life was slower I am sure.

Mary

16/3/2018 02:17:16 am

Yes, We have become dependent. I remember a trip to the UK some years ago where I did not have my mobile. I was supposed to get a train to a very small station where my son would pick me up. However, when changing trains in Cambridge with only minutes to spare, I ended up on the wrong train. A very nice young man on the train loaned me his mobile to call my son...who had his mobile turned OFF. It was Mothering Sunday and the message I left him was not motherly. Needless to say, I stood outside the remote train station for hours before he finally showed up. I have not forgotten my mobile since that event.

Freda

16/3/2018 03:03:18 pm

I will not be forgetting mine either though my situation worked out ok.

Lotta

16/3/2018 03:37:19 am

I'm most disappointed not to see the baby llamas! What are they studying I wonder? Tibetan Buddhism? :-)

Freda

16/3/2018 03:04:14 pm

I think they may have been alpacas - something to do with pet therapy!

Susan

16/3/2018 04:32:29 am

Still smartphone-free in 2018! but for a tiny £10 mobile, which I take on trips on public transport (I absolutely concur re the ferry) or travelling a long distance to meet someone.
Sometimes I find that if I've photographed during a day out (with my camera), those images obliterate the many others in my memory.

Freda

16/3/2018 03:07:14 pm

Travelling light Susan!

cathy

16/3/2018 01:42:34 pm

no smart phone for me...just a go-phone I carry for emergencies. That must make me a luddite...but works for me.

Freda

16/3/2018 03:08:33 pm

I think the Luddites went about destroying things - you're not doing that to people's phones are you Cathy? :-)

cathy

16/3/2018 04:21:54 pm

hmmm...I thought a luddite was someone who didn't like progress. be assured people's phones are safe when I'm around.

Julia

16/3/2018 02:06:30 pm

Oh my gosh!!!! I would be at a loss too, Freda...i had to pause for a moment to think how WOULD I feel?
Loss of control came to mind....we are sure dependent on our devices, aren’t we?

Freda

16/3/2018 03:10:31 pm

Being able to enlarge things on the screen is very useful to me in poor light, and living in a village with no street lights the torch is very useful when I get off the bus at night.

Julia

16/3/2018 03:14:20 pm

I like to use the alarm clock too..i try to not have too many clocks around..so it is nice to set my alarm on my phone and have a nap, anywhere, anytime...:-)

Lotta

16/3/2018 03:45:55 pm

And I put up a shelf in the kitchen using a spirit level app when I'd broken the real thing!

Freda

17/3/2018 05:57:00 am

Spirit level, cimpass, alarm clock, stopwatch - it rhere anything a phone can't do these days? Brilliant and lots more to try...

Julia

17/3/2018 06:48:26 am

Well are really favorite app that has been very useful to me for 2 years is scanner pro.
You can scan a document or photograph and then email it directly from the app...this was so handy when we had a lot of documents to sign and forward in settling my MIL’s estate and did not have access to a fax of scanner..

Simply..at a loss....

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