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Phone on the wall works, but you kinda gotta be withing 10 foot of it. And it's only a phone.
My cell phone works just about world wide, and it's maps, text, email, camera, note taker, video, calculator, timer, clock, unlimited music collection, tv, instruction manaul for just about anything, library...and no doubt a whole lot more.
Paper maps..don't talk. I can say "ok google, take me to the rock and roll hall of fame" and it will do that, step by step telling me when to turn. Need gas on the way? It will help with that. Hungry? No problem.
I was picking up an implement from a rural address - it got me there, told me when I'd arraive, and on the way back when I had a tire issue it got me to an open on sunday tire store.
Paper maps can't do that. Never could, never will.
And I've got EVERYWHERE on my phone..not just this state and the next one over.
As for a coal stove or wood stove...sure, they work.
But you know what? I'm warm - and didn't have to shovel coal, fetch coal, have it delivered, cut wood, etc. No stove to stoke, never too hot or too cold. And come 95F and 90% humidity I can sleep in comfort too.
Went to a funeral in a city that I hadn’t been in in 31 years last year. Found the funeral home without having to doubleback or go out of the way at all without even looking at a map.
4 people who live in that city could not find thier way to the same funeral home even when guided by thier precious built in maps and tracking system.
Phone being on the wall means if you leave a message I might call you back and I feel no need to see who just called until I’m darn good and ready. The phone on the wall doesn’t cut me off, get messages a day late I can drop it and throw it around and it never seems to break. Besides that it costs less an I haven’t been distracted by it with a call or a message at an untimely manner ever.
Most people I know don’t and many can’t seem to remember anyone’s phone number without the use of thier built in phone directory but I can remember almost every phone number of everyone I ever had since I was a child, that’s Old land lines and thier ever changing new cell numbers.
Interesting is they can’t seem to think for themselves without the crutch built in to thier phone and I honestly believe it’s making people dummer by 5he second as they never seem to be able to figure things out for themselves. I could short change over half the population and they wouldn’t be able to even figure out if I did unless they pull up thier calculator on the phone they somehow seem to feel the need to never be without.
I have no need to text anyone! Heck it’s part of the problem why they can’t understand what someone just said to them. Maybe if they spent some time actually talking or better yet typing a complete sentence they might just begin to understand things that are said again. Maybe if I spoke half with words and half with pictures and manipulations of the language they might get some of it. But even after watching them search for the answer on thier phone most still somehow get it wrong or still can’t understand half of what they read.
Try teaching a bunch of the young brain dead cell phone raised people out there today to perform a complex task that requires actual use of thier own brain and you will see what I am talking about.
For the odd time or two that I have to get that paper map out of my glove box, Ican actually find a better way than anyone with a cell phone has offered.
Last time in Philly went a little out of my normal area to do some odd buisness, decided to cut across town rather than back track. Never before in that area so I asked some locals what the best road was to get where I wanted to go. Had a good laugh as 5 people who claim to have been born and raised right there all would have had me back track miles to get a straight road south only to have to come back east the same amount of distance as I already was. Pulled out went one block east then south and ended up 1 block from where I wanted to be.
On the way home I took thier cell phone inspired route and it took over 3 times as long and was also more miles.
Flat tires? I have carried a plug kit in the tool box since I could drive. Back then I also carried a hand pump but now the compressors built on the truck so I don’t need an open tire store and honestly never did. No wait just plug it fill it with air and go. Funny that plug and tool kit costs a lot les than the reoccurring charge of the cell phone and it doesn’t cost near as much as a built in GPS unit that just makes every modern dashboard look simply Hydious.
Bet you a thousand dollars you paid more for that fancy heating unit, more for the fuel and electric to power it. Probably still have cold spots in your house. Not to mention I actually enjoy the stove, that look, the ambiance and don’t consider it work. Had the same stove since my very first home and it has never cost me any money to fix it although my Grandfather said he had to replace a grate once before I was born.
The coal ashes are put to good use and it gives me a reason to run the tractor about once a week in the winter as I use it to carry the ashes out.
One must remember that not everyone needs to stay in constant communication, or needs directions all the time many of us OLD farts need to do some work and move around on a regular basis.Rolling up windows reading a map and being able to remember directions you learned from it, moving some ashes or a few shovels full of coal isn’t hard work, it’s theraputic
I honestly tried sitting still for a few days and It actually hurt more than I do when I overwork myself.
Enjoy your cell phone, enjoy the cost enjoy what you consider the benefits but remember to me it’s just something else I don’t want or need.
