September chitchat

[agate]

I had a scary experience with my little button once when somehow or other the dispatching system started calling my contact person (my son) and I had to get on the phone fast with them to stop the ambulance or fire department from showing up when there was nothing wrong.

It wasn't because I had accidentally pressed that button. It was some other mixup and wasn't my doing but theirs. When I realized how easily that kind of thing could happen, I wasn't so enthusiastic about the system any more.

I believe many cellphones/smartphones now have ways of summoning help in an emergency?

[Prot]

Mine has gone off accidentally quite a few times. 'Better safe than sorry ' is my thinking about them.

[agate]

People don't seem to mind that their phones are often going off when they're carrying on a conversation with a real person or in a group where everyone is trying to hear the speaker who went to the trouble of coming to that group. They also don't mind picking up their phone and taking calls when they're (a) driving, (b) sitting with a group of friends in a restaurant or anywhere else, or (c) doing just about anything else.

I don't get this zeal for being available every single minute--and for assuming that anyone real who is in your presence can just wait and understand that your concerns are so important that they have priority over anything that person might be trying to say or do.

I try to remember to turn my phone ringer off whenever I'm among people, and I hardly ever even have the phone on me but I seem to be in a rapidly dwindling minority.

[jingle]

I agree!! I guess I'm just too sensitive or touchy or something but sure don't like it when someone wants to "go to lunch". And then you sit looking into space while they talk on the phone.