mobile phones,

[powerskipper]

Mobile phones

The trouble with mobile phones is they go off just when you are close
Quarter manoeuvring and you can bet that it is someone you do not
Want to talk to.
And the person you do want to talk to is the one
who try’s to phone when you can’t hear it ring,
If on vibrate alertand in a pocket, guaranteed it is under oily and you do a kind of
ungainly gig while trying to reach it and it has hit that nerve on
your hip that makes you jump and squirm uncontrollable.
Then when you are 4 or so miles off shore it stops picking up British
network but the French network seems to stretch out much
further and all calls cost more.
So why do we take them with us on the water,

Just in case someone phones.
We mite miss something,

Why do you take yours and how would you feel without it now.????


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[hlb]

Easy answer. I only use a mobile when on the boat, Only about four or five people know my number. Some of them will be with me. The phone will be down stairs and me up, So I wont here it anyway. It's probably not switched on. What you need a mobile phone for anyway??

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Haydn

 

[BrendanS]

Hee hee!

It's 078114xxxxx

anyone want's to drive Haydn mad with text messages, pm me /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[hlb]

Wont drive me mad. Buggers never switched on. Just ckecked and theres 72p left on it since I last used it in August.

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Haydn

 

[whisper]

I take mine as a possible backup for fixed & handheld vhf. Only turned on when I want to ring out. Have to admit to occasionally ringing colleagues or ex colleagues who are still at work, to annoy them by telling them what a wonderful time I'm having with sea & sunshine etc.
If I leave it behind due to forgetfulness (frequently) I'm not really bothered.

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[ccscott49]

living aboard, I would need a very long extension lead, so I have a mobile, mainly so work=money can contact me, when I get out of the business, I will have a ceremonial dumping at sea! I will still have a mobile, but with a local card, then anybody calling does so at there expense, not mine! I do already have a local phone, but still need a UK one for travelling etc. not for much longer though.

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[chrissy]

I suppose thats what they call progress in technonolgy!!!

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[Dave1258]

I must be sad,....................I wear a hands free looking like Captain Scarlet!!!!!

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