I like texting as a way of avoiding phone-tag. “Be there in 20 minutes” kind of stuff. And in combination with Twitter it is sort of like going back to ye olden days of Usenet. I’m not willing to pay for a futurephone so that was my lifeline in LA last winter, but normally I don't use it much.

Except at work, I almost never listen to my voicemail anyways. I just see that someone called and usually call them back.

Noooo! Don’t be that guy!

I have two friends who'd do this. To be fair, I can kind of understand it if you think the caller just wants to chat, but they’d do it even when they knew exactly why I'm calling. Like, my message is: "I just got to the hotel, so I’m going to go eat and then do X and Y. If you’re free tonight you can join us at Z." And the call back opens with "Are you in town yet? Have you eaten? What are you doing tonight?" Maddening!

It's a profit center. See also the recent findings that the long-ass "# is not available. To leave a message, press 1 after the beep" yadda yadda recordings are in fact deliberately designed to make you use up more airtime.

Still don't have a cell phone. Probably more a comment on the simplicity/dullness of my life than anything else.

But I probably will get one soon, because I want a way to communicate with Hubby when I'm in the grocery store.

because I want a way to communicate with Hubby when I'm in the grocery store.

Very good use. It's helped me several times when DW requests nonexistent items when I go off to the grocery store.

I quibble with use of the term "sex toy". According to the article, it's not being used for the sex itself, but to attract the female's attention to the male's erection so that they can have sex. It's like tight jeans.

The article likened it to a boom car, with the caveat that no actual woman finds a boom car attractive. The analogy does however have the advantage of maintaining the connection to tools.

um

we like the cars, the cars that go boom

there's a whole song. some girls do like them.

I get annoyed when I leave a voicemail for DH and he calls without listening to it first. Dude, if I call and just hang up when I get the vm, then whatev, but if I go through the trouble of leaving you info? Check it! Yesterday I left him a voicemail saying I was leaving my phone at home to charge while I was out getting stuff at the store. When I came home my phone showed 4 missed calls and 2 voicemails from him. !!!

Yay Bob! And fingers crossed that Second Look person becomes First Offer person for msbelle!

I just got rid of my cell phone. Decided the expense didn't warrant hanging on to something I never used. I only got it for two reasons: 1) so my daughter could have a cell phone when she still had crappy credit and 2) to have during the F2F. Her credit's improved enough, she got her own cell phone recently and I'm saving $60 a month. Yay. I might get a tracphone, though. Just to have something. But it wouldn't be a monthly fee to worry about.

The Chinese restaurant had no scallion pancakes at their steam table.

Bastards.

The Chinese restaurant had no scallion pancakes at their steam table.

MAJOR SCALLION PANCAKE FAIL