Text Messaging. Do you?

[tcco94]

I am afraid because of these people out there. It is really unsafe even talking on the phone but now texting??!!

I cant see how talking on a phone is unsafe. Just my thought on the matter though.

[Hagar]

I am afraid because of these people out there. It is really unsafe even talking on the phone but now texting??!!

I cant see how talking on a phone is unsafe. Just my thought on the matter though.

You only have to watch people talking on their mobile phones in the street. Most of them are completely unaware of their surroundings. I've seen people so engrossed in their silly phone conversations actually walk out into a busy road blissfully unaware of the traffic desperately trying to avoid them. Now put those same idiots behind the wheel of a car. It's terrifying to contemplate.

[Travis]

Crap, couldn't even read through all the replies before I had to get my mouth in!

I (at every opportunity) honk and yell at those on the road who are talking on their phones and driving at the same time.  When I see someone texting, I have actually been very tempted to nudge them with my car and send them flying, just for the lesson.

My fiance was driving around Waco, TX a couple of months ago when she witnessed a woman almost drive off the side of an overpass because she was texting.

In Texas, it has only JUST NOW become illegal to talk and drive in a SCHOOL ZONE.  That, to me, seems a no-brainer: Gee, do I want to be a good driver, or hit small children?  How can people believe that driving whilst using a communications device can be a GOOD thing?

[Fozzer]

I am afraid because of these people out there. It is really unsafe even talking on the phone but now texting??!!

I cant see how talking on a phone is unsafe. Just my thought on the matter though.

...I'm still waiting for Tyler to land his aircraft successfully and safely whilst Talking/Texting on his Mobile 'Phone....

...after they dig him, and his Aeroplane, out of the Runway Tarmac each time!... ... ...!

Paul.... ... ...!

.... ....!

[Leigh]

its stupid for people to text and be on the phone while driving

but i have no problems with texting its only 25cents and well on my rate its so much cheaper if i text than call

but i do admit its better to talk because then you get an answer straight away

[EJW]

I think I must be the only teen in England who desn't really use their mobile. All my friends use their mobiles hundreds of times a day,but I only use my mobile 5-10 times a week.

[expat]

[quote]Not that it matters much, having a cell phone is a requirement of my job, being available 9 hours a day. The company pays for the bill.

[Hagar]

Something that Vodafone found out. The customer service people who have the very annoying habit of ringing you up to ask how happy you are with your service. I barred this number after seeing it constantly. After a while I got a letter from Vodafone saying that they cannot contact me and was there a problem. I emailed them that I had barred the customer contact number due to being pestered on a regular basis. I have no interest in packages, promotions, the chance to win a holiday. I am not 15 years old and do not need a 100000000000000000 text offer a month and the same goes for jingles, tones, games, the latest number one tune for a ring tone. I don't need my phone pimping, painting or do I need a strap, bag or waterproof box for the beach or pool. I have no interest in collecting points each time I call. I also do not want you as my land line provider or as my internet provider. I do not want to upgrade, downgrade or replace my present phone. I do not want GPS or the ability to surf or have any use for the service "grinder".........Not heard from them in over a year now

Brilliant! [smiley=thumbsup.gif] I must remember that.

I do have one thing on my phone, that would probably drive Rom, Fozzer and Hagar up the wall though. I can make video calls from my phone to my wife's phone. Why, I am away a lot and I can say good night to my two boys face to face so to say.

Matt

That sounds an excellent idea. 8-)

I'm not against mobile phones per se. I have one myself & agree they have their uses.

[Fozzer]

.....I can make video calls from my phone to my wife's phone. Why, I am away a lot .....

...and she replied with...

"I have no interest in packages, promotions, the chance to win a holiday. I am not 15 years old and do not need a 100000000000000000 text offer a month and the same goes for jingles, tones, games, the latest number one tune for a ring tone. I don't need my phone pimping, painting or do I need a strap, bag or waterproof box for the beach or pool. I have no interest in collecting points each time I call. I also do not want you as my land line provider or as my internet provider. I do not want to upgrade, downgrade or replace my present phone. I do not want GPS or the ability to surf or have any use for the service "grinder"."

Paul... ... ... ...!

[H]

"Text Messaging. Do you?"
No.

Cut their thumbs off... that'll teach 'em...

to use their fingers, teeth, nose and toes. You'll need to further reduce the number of digits for an effective disfigurement.

All this sometimes makes me feel like an old dinosaur. It might sound odd now but my parents never had an ordinary telephone. Never needed one. I didn't have one myself until after my daughter was born. That would have been in the early 1970s. We'd managed perfectly well without one for all those years & there was a public call-box just up the road for emergencies.

We never had a home phone, either Doug, right up until I left home in 1988! I'm not sure when my parents got one, I'd guess around 1990. If I needed to make a call I'd pop up to the phone box at the top of the road with a 5p piece...

[color=#003300]There wasn't a telephone in our home until my mom remarried; until then, much of the time there was no television to be watched (I did refurbish an old post-WW2 black-and-white Westinghouse) and my first computer usage was in tech school, my first video game was maintaining and operating a Russian SAM for the USAF.
A mile from the town border, we lived three miles from the nearest convenience store and commercial pay phone, needing to go

[lunitic_8]

[quote]I'm constantly texting.

[skoker]

[quote]
Im constantly texting too(mostly girls

[Mazza]

I am afraid because of these people out there. It is really unsafe even talking on the phone but now texting??!!

I cant see how talking on a phone is unsafe. Just my thought on the matter though.

You only have to watch people talking on their mobile phones in the street. Most of them are completely unaware of their surroundings. I've seen people so engrossed in their silly phone conversations actually walk out into a busy road blissfully unaware of the traffic desperately trying to avoid them. Now put those same idiots behind the wheel of a car. It's terrifying to contemplate.

I am aware on MY surroundings, people get annoyed with me because as I'm crossion the road say, I will say hold on for a sec and plot's of people go why did you say that? I reply I'M CROSSING A BLOODY ROAD Someone once said meh I don't even look anymores

[Hagar]

I am aware on MY surroundings, people get annoyed with me because as I'm crossion the road say, I will say hold on for a sec and plot's of people go why did you say that? I reply I'M CROSSING A BLOODY ROAD Someone once said meh I don't even look anymores

I'm afraid this is applies to most pedestrians in my part of the world whether they're using a mobile phone or not. The poor old motorists need eyes in the backs of their heads when driving in town nowadays. The pedestrians (& cyclists) know full well that the motorists will get the blame if they so much as touch them.

[Fozzer]

[quote][quote]
Im constantly texting too(mostly girls