12-02-2021, 11:42 AM
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It’s when your friends don’t ring you that you should worry!I feel ever so sorry for the woman with the cat. She sounds so lonely and all she has is her cat to talk to.
In a different time she might be quite interesting but at the moment, what else does she have to talk about if she never leaves the house?
Well said, Art!
12-02-2021, 11:52 AM
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Susan. That's classic. I'm often tempted to drop some earth shattering news as I've noticed ( well you would, wouldn't you) that if I say something important or interesting, no response, just " have you seen the price of fish" or, predictions from one of many of the clairvoyant sites that she's addicted to.
12-02-2021, 04:20 PM
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Luckily for me, friends and family are all 'WhatsApp'ersSome are also in WhatsApp groups
We can pick conversations up and leave them at will
Nobody takes offence
Everybody joins in at their convenience
This is not as good as hearing someone else's voice if you're alone and lonely of course but it could maybe take the place of a phonecall now and again?
12-02-2021, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by rhian
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luckily for me, friends and family are all 'whatsapp'erssome are also in whatsapp groups
we can pick conversations up and leave them at will
nobody takes offence
everybody joins in at their convenience
:-d
this is not as good as hearing someone else's voice if you're alone and lonely of course but it could maybe take the place of a phonecall now and again?
12-02-2021, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by keezoy
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I still have a landline. These days I don't really know why I keep it. It's only used as an answering machine. It is NEVER turned on to ring. Avoids scammers and other nuisance calls.
Very few people have my Mobile number .
12-02-2021, 06:15 PM
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Although it is nice to be thought of or checked on, I do think people also often pick up the phone simply because they are bored. Unfortunately it doesn't always mean the recipient is in the same boat though.I am sure we've all had calls when we're in the middle of something and its not always possible to drop everything and have an hours conversation about nothing in particular. Its hard to get back to what you were doing again.
Its difficult, because the caller doesn't know we are trying to cook, or just stepped out the shower, or in the middle of paperwork or housework, or pefhaps having a snooze even.
Sometimes I have been trying to get my online banking done and I cannot just leave it, or the house phone rings when I am on a call on my mobile, or I am busy out in the shed doing something. Often it has happened when I am in the middle of bathing/clipping one of the dogs and so on.
There are many reasons why it is not always possible to stop and chat.
A quick 5 mins should be easy enough, but every single day for an hour at time, would drive me bonkers Tabs, I'd never get anything else done, and what on earth could there be to talk about when you've not long put the phone down from their previous call only a few hours before?
12-02-2021, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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It’s when your friends don’t ring you that you should worry!I feel ever so sorry for the woman with the cat. She sounds so lonely and all she has is her cat to talk to.
In a different time she might be quite interesting but at the moment, what else does she have to talk about if she never leaves the house?
ST, give her my number and l will chat to her!
poor old thing
12-02-2021, 09:52 PM
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I have both a landline and my cell phone. When home, I find it more comfortable to use the landline. Every few nights a friend or two will call to "touch base" and chat awhile. It breaks up the monotony for me in the evenings, and I welcome them thinking of me. We didn't used to do it, went to lunch or dinner a couple of times a week, but now...none of that.It also makes me more appreciative of the friends I have, and I will stop whatever I'm doing in the house to talk awhile.
When things open up more, and it's safer, I'll gladly go back to seeing friends in "real time".
Did I mention I can call England and chat with a few friends there for under a dollar an hour? It makes a nice half hour call once a week seem a treat.
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