Just feel the need to vent...

[brezofleur]

Oh gosh, I HATED those nextel phones! My brother wanted one and I thought he was crazy. Why would you want someone to hear your conversation like that? Pass.

Donna, I completely understand. I'll go out to dinner with my girlfriends and they're always texting. Really? If you don't want to go to dinner with me, just say so. I worked on cruise ships so I was traveling a lot too. Europeans are much more likely to not be nose deep in their electronics and thus much more friendly

[DBlain]

Originally Posted by KazzyK810

Remember when nextel walkie-talkie phones were new out and everybody & their brother had one? It used to drive me nuts going out to dinner/shopping and having to listen to everyone's conversation, even though the phones offered the option of regular private talk. It seems like so many people are exhibitionists now and deliberately talk (loudly) so that people can overhear them. The same need to air their personal business is equally evident by constant updates on Facebook & Twitter.

OMG yes, my old boss had one of the first ones and he was a friend (for a while) we would go out with him and his wife for dinner and he would have to call each of his adult sons and other people from the company that he gave the phone to. He was by far the biggest show off I have ever met, he had no need to talk with these people at 9 PM on the weekends but he could just not resist shouting to them so everyone could see and hear he owned a nextel.

[concretegurl]

On a serious note:

I told my daughter the other day when I was her age if we weren't home people left a message abd we called them back later or talked to them at school.

Cell phones had a bag either it was in the car strictly for an emergency, or you only used it when camping for an emergency.

She called me old and said her call WAS an emergency her friend's boyfriend of a whole 3 months broke up with her...

[GuinnessStout]

Lol my grandmother passed in 2007 and she still had the bag cell phone on a phone cord and all, when it would ring and I was driving I would never let her answer because I did not want people to stare.
Now I will admit that when my group of friends are out the girls might text private jokes and comments to each other playing around.
But I do government mortgage foreclosures but my first job is to help you save your home so call me crazy but if somebody was giving me their full undivided attention to help you keep your home to keep a roof over your kids heads you MIGHT go sit in a private quiet room but noooo I get food ordering eating watching TV or my fav the lady using the restroom and grunting in my ear!! Thank goodness I have a mute button is all I have to say