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HEY MOTHERFUCKERS!
ANSWER YOU'RE GODDAMN CELL PHONES!
I reaaaaaaaaaaaaallly dislike when people don't answer their cell phones and I dislike it even more when they give me a lame ass excuse like "uhhhh i didn't feel it....all day...." or "i didn't check it....all day"

WHAT THE FUCK DO U HAVE IT FOR???
stupid ass lame shit like that frustrates me
sorry, angry soapbox

God gave us cell phone's for a reason

C O M M U N I C A T I O N

god didnt give us cell phones, he gave us the brains to know when not to answer them because there's a looney calling.

Yup, I answer my phone when I feel like it.

im talkin about friends or people close to u who's behaivor is so retarded when it comes to simple communication

you mean people that know you're looney?

im not looney im pissed off at people who don't utilze cell phones like my girlfriend

If you know this, let it go.

let what go? if someone's behaivor is so fucking retarded that they constantly don't check their cell phone then they don't belong in 2007. The concept of a cell phone is so easy- if you're not going to use the technology then don't have one in the first place. And give me a better excuse than "i just didn't check it all day" cause that shit is infuriating that they just didn't think to check it all day. it mean's they didn't think of YOU all day either

If this is someone who treats you well and is loving and true, this is a trivial and silly thing to get upset about, but have at it if you want.
BTW, I've been with my wife for 17 years... just sayin'.

ok what is a relationship without communication. eh? EH?

especially a long distance one where communication is at the top of the pyramid

As I said, up to you. I would talk to her about it calmly, let her know that it bothers you.

I do and have been. That's why I'm tired of it and angry :(

Then you have to choose to let it go or have issues.

:yelsick: Yeaaaaaaaaah

Next time, try calling from a number she doesn't recognize.

:cool:

I'm guessin (out on a limb here) that she is not answering for a reason. Call me crazy...

Ok, yur crazy... nope, did nothin' for me.

It's not even that she is screening my calls, it's that she just doesn't answer her fone because.....she just doesn't even realize she has a cell phone for half the day! And then when I tell her "where the F you been!" she's like "oh...i forgot to check my fone, sorry"

Buncha bsssss mannnnnnn

If somebody doesn't leave a message, and only calls once, sorry but I'm not callin back.

Hmmm

Cell phones arent an obligation to be available 24hrs a day or even 4hrs a day. They are a convenience.

Sorry ...brutal truth...I use that kinda line all the time and its because I dont want to talk to whoever was calling :)

This is the gf you just got back together with?

Maybe you are phoning her too often and she doesn't want to talk that much.

She has decided not to answer your calls. Not rocket science is it...?

Could be somethin.....could be nothin.....either way I guarantee making a fuss about it is not likely to make the situation better:P

don't belong in 2007? more than likely not, however since I'm here... I answer my phone when it's an appropriate time for me to do so, not at work, not driving my car, not in the bathroom etc. and if it's that important.. call again. or send a text message so I know what it's about without having to waste my time or yours w/ idle banter.

and on a side note.. long distance relationship huh? haven't had good luck with that sort of relationship myself, tried it a few times and have always been let down (which has left me more than a little paranoid about them. I wish you luck.).

No, no no everyone's not getting the point!!

She just doesn't check her fone.....for no reason at all!
#1, she's on spring break so there's no work or nothing obligating importance that is inappropriate for her to answer.
#2, I don't overly call but I mean in 11 hours I expect a freakin' call back by then!!!!! That's how long I was waiting for a call back, mind you. She isn't screening my calls, she just doesn't utilize her fone!

Her only excuse is "uhhh I just forgot to check it, sorry." Seriously. Lame.

Cell phones are for the convenience of the owner, not the convenience of people who call them. If helping people call them is what they want to do, that's great, but it's not a requirement.

AS USUAL, I can't improve on Happy Monkey's analysis. Concise, correct, decisive and direct. Typical.

so what if she isn't checking her cell phone? Phones are evil, and people become enslaved.

I rarely answer my phones.

:eyebrow:

Everyone's crazy but you, huh?


You ask the question but you don't listen to the answer.

Lame excuses are usually lies. If she wanted to hear from you, she'd check her phone.

Needy is a big turn off for most.

Why would you want to be with someone who is so lame?

My cell is for my convenience. If anyone calls me on it, it had better be an emergency. Does that make me a "fucking retard"?

We clearly understand, we just don't agree with you.

There is no such thing as "no reason"... she just does not want to answer her phone when it rings.
It really is not that big of a deal.

eh hem

I'm sorry I'm so dense but I think there is a generation gap issue...I'm in college and everyone of my friends picks up their fone 24/7. Maybe not for working middle aged office people. When you're in college, cell phones are the medium to the outside and inside world. When you're not on the Internet, you're still connected to you're cell phone. So don't assume like everyone knows what it's like to be in college in 2007. Cell phones are seriously life. I talk to my friends at least an hour a day just planning to meet them wherever or whatever. Everyone of you is like "it's convenience, because I'm 50 and I'm busy at work and blah blah" but no you don't understand college kids now. Cell phones are not a convenience to me (or HER), it is a way to be connected to everyone all the time. I don't mean to offend anyone, but the rules of the game have changed since your higher education. No more typewriters. We have laptops. So please trust me as I say cell phones are so much connected into college students everyday needs and communications.

It does not seem to be like that for her.

She's an exception. That is why I'm angry in the first place.

"Generation gap" is only based on averages. It says nothing about individuals. And even for individuals, there are moods. You can get fed up with being "connected to everyone all the time", and a vacation is a great time to disconnect.

i think she's avoiding you.

Again, you are going to have to decide how important this is to you.

I believe you. Which brings us back around to the idea that has been mentioned several times already; she is ignoring your calls.

Right. The exception.

Ummmm.. just so's you know, logic doesn't change with the generations. She doesn't want to talk to you :)

If this is so...then her behavior is REALLLLLLLYYYYYYYY saying something you dont want to hear.

You can say its just *her* all you like, but I would hazard a guess that she answers when someone she wants to speak to calls.

I have my phone with me 24/7 and return txt/sms messages within minutes of receiving them...even when I am at work.

But if someone calls that I dont want to talk too, or a guy calls thats all needy n pissy .... I dont answer and when I see them on msn or talk to them next...i say things like..."oh, I didnt check my phone" or "I left my phone in the car"...its total bullshit :)

I wonder why she would be avoiding him?

Ok? What relevance is this? Vacation? She's on spring break in her home city, she should be GETTING MORE calls from her friends to hang out and w/e. Like I said the generation gap is valid, even if it's based off averages. It's still totally valid why you and me think different of cell phones.

hahaha look at that little barrage, all saying the same thing.

Old people win. Everyone happy? Now go ask your 20 year old kids how important their cell phones are to them.

YOU are missing the point.

If cells are that important....she doesnt want to talk to you.

I hope you aren't majoring in anything requiring logical reasoning.

Here's your sign :)

Fresh, I am your age and I don't think my cell phone is life. I keep it on me and try to answer whenever I can but I too will avoid calls (usually work).

How many times do you call her a day? week?

How long do these phone calls last?

You're one of those people. Creepy.

You answer your phone in public restrooms, don't you? Say, do you text there as well?

ducknuts really really has a point there.... there are a million things you are not reading between the lines... pick up a pair of non-emotional bi-focals and take a closer look. at anyrate, there are some questions you need to be asking yourself about why she's NOT answering the phone or calling back for almost 1/2 a day. and I am not a proponent of jealousy, quite the opposite, but. . . . just think about it, don't act/react just yet.. just mull it over.

Sometimes I answer my cell phone and other times I don't. Sometimes I return text messages and other times I don't. I was the same when I was a uni student (college student).

If I don't feel like talking, I don't talk and if I don't feel like talking to you I wont answer your calls or texts. This doesn't necessarily mean I don't like you btw. It just means I'm not interested in talking to you at your convenience. I'll do it at my own, or not at all.

Such is life. Get over it or let the aggravation drive you crazy. Either way, it's not going to make me pay any extra attention to your calls. It has nothing to do with age. It has only to do with patience.

She's not a college student, is she? She doesn't have anything to to do with your education or life there. If she answered the phone what will you say, "Whatcha doin'"? Maybe she's got better things to do than answer your cross examination about who she's with and what she's doing.

Fresh you're just going to have to accept that she is someone who doesn't check her phone all the time. You've told her it stresses you out and that you worry when you don't hear from her and it hasn't made a difference. Therefore you have a choice whether to keep letting it wind you up, or simply accept it.

I know people (no, not just OLD people) who genuinely aren't ruled by their phones. She's obviously one of them.

BUT. And it's a big but. You can bet your life that if it was important enough to her (new relationship, waiting on test results, family crisis) she would have the phone in her hand all day.

I'm notoriously difficult to get hold of amongst my circle of accquaintances. Sometimes I'll get a call at work from my Mum checking I'm okay, because one of my friends hasn't been able to get hold of me. If I haven't paid my phone bill I'll sometimes leave my phone off for two weeks until I can afford to pay it. It's strangely liberating.

Try backing off. See if you can leave it 12 hours before you try again. Then 24. Then 48.

Sorry I'm with fresh on this one there is nothing more frustrating than trying to get a hold of someone on their mobile and they don't answer.
My wife is the perfect example I've lost count of the times I've needed to contact her for various reasons and because her phone is in the bottom of the huge handbag she lugs around she never hears it.
Once she was at an old lady friends house and the old dear was saying "can you hear that ringing noise"" no said my good lady wife" It was me trying to get a hold of her cos we needed to get papers signed to let our house sale go through..I was driving around the town and phoning everyone to try and find her

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lmao same im like helloo didnt you buy that so you could talk to ppl and now all ur doing is ignoring them ... where did u leave ur brain??

Yeep...nothin like a bit of generalisation to get the ball rolling huh? Y'know there is (and has always been) as much variation amongst people of the same generation as there is between the generations. Not all 20 yr olds are identical. They don't have identical values, they don't like identical music, they don't have identical hobbies and they don't respond identically to the world. I know kids of 18 who are a bitch to get hold of, who routinely let their phone power down and then forget to recharge it before they go out....and I know 50 yr olds who are married to their comms. Me? I am 35 and sometimes easy to get hold of and sometimes not. I always have my phone with me.....I call people often, I do not however, always answer it. Sometimes I just don't feel like talking. That has nothing to do with me being 35, i was the same when I was 12. It has nothing to do with my generation and how much the world has changed. The world has changed.....but people are very much the same: some are more sociable than others; people vary according to their mood.

Yo, Dude! Everyone is texting everyone else that they are all going to jump off a cliff! You coming, or are you lame?

Seriously, I understand that things are different for youth these days. ("Now, you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula-hoops and your Pac-Man video games... People these days have attention spans that can only be measured in nano-seconds!") :)
But don't be so clingy...you may as well be pushing her off a cliff. Maybe she's (gasp) reading or studying and doesn't want to hear how Joe told Bob that they were going to play hacky-sack but Gina said Joe can't go because he promised to take her to Burger King for dinner and so Jimmy said Joe was whipped and Joe punched Jimmy and Shannon told the RA and everyone got written up..."

Nothing worse than clingy possessive partners; it makes you feel like you're dealing with a 5 year old.

*chuckles* I like that.

I don't hear well, sometimes when outside and someone is visiting they'll say, phone's ringing. They act like I should break and run to answer. Right so some SOB can try to sell me a tombstone. Leave a message, I might just call back. At my convenience.
Years ago I asked my Dad why he wouldn't answer the phone after around 9pm. He told me at that time of night either someone had died or in trouble. If died, he couldn't help them and if in trouble they didn't need him to get in trouble, so didn't need him to get out.
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:p I wasn't allowed to take or make a phone call after 9 pm. I still live by that; unless it's really important I won't call anyone after 9. Unless I feel like chatting (which I rarely do; I hate phones), or it's my family and I know something must be up, I won't pick up after 9 either.

I'm not a slave to the telephone, though I thank Mr Bell profusely for inventing it.

I keep my cell phone off unless I am making a call. I hate cell phones and hate when people are trying to conduct normal business and talking on their phones. Esp drivers. We need to do like the UK and have serious fines for people who talk and drive except with hands free phones.

I can't think of anyone who would need to talk to me in an emergency. My where abouts are most always known. When my where abouts are in question I may turn it on.

I hate the idiots who have their cell phones in the movie theater or other public performance. Turn off your cell phones dumbass, I paid to watch this in silence, not listen to you.