O-T ... This is off topic and weird .....

[GoldenAge50s]

Just want to make note, as Barry & a couple of others did, that I have a land line, an answering machine that works perfectly well and NO cell phone to bother me at the golf course, local watering hole or anywhere else I choose to be w/out a rude intrusion!

[barrysloate]

Fred- I thought I was the last guy on earth without a cellphone. Glad to know there are others.

[GoldenAge50s]

Not for sure Barry, but I'll bet there are a few others on this Board that will be in our camp!

[drc]

As noted, the "You have reached (insert phone number here). Leave a message at the tone" is the standard default message on many message machines. If buy a new machine and don't make your own message, that message is automatically used. You message must have been accidentally reset to it. Especially with age and use, message machines can wear out and act goofy-- cut messages short, etc.

[Cat]

My message was once changed from my self recorded message. Ultimately I determined that it was the jack-boot thugs that hover over my house in their stealth helicopter. I don't know why they changed it, but they did.

[packs]

Aliens

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Fred- I thought I was the last guy on earth without a cellphone. Glad to know there are others.

None for me either, though the wife has one and every time it goes off when we are out driving.
I feel like tossing it out of the window.

[E93]

If that 20 year old does not keep up with technology, it won't matter if he put $20 away each month.
JimB

[slidekellyslide]

Believe it or not, George isn't at home.
Please leave a message at the beep.
I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone.
Where could I be?
Believe it or not, I'm not home!

[PGACPA]

Several years ago, all of the garage door openers on my street just died. Yep. Not the openers themselves, but the "clickers". This lasted about three days then they started working again. Called repair men. Everything appeared in order. It was very strange. There are some really computer savy kids in my neighborhood who could have somehow been responsible who knows. The joke was that the mothership just moved on...

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by PGACPA

Several years ago, all of the garage door openers on my street just died. Yep. Not the openers themselves, but the "clickers". This lasted about three days then they started working again. Called repair men. Everything appeared in order. It was very strange. There are some really computer savy kids in my neighborhood who could have somehow been responsible who knows. The joke was that the mothership just moved on...

You don't by chance happen to live on Maple Street, do you?

[brickyardkennedy]

And have Claude Akins and Jack Weston as neighbors?

[Rob D.]

Thanks for getting that, Bob.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

Thanks for getting that, Bob.

What Rob means is that not every day does he make a joke referencing an episode of a 40 year TV show and have anyone know what he's talking about.

Today was that day.


(On a side note, I went to college with Rod S.'s daughter, way back when. Very nice girl, but... a little different.)

[PGACPA]

not maple street but i have a judge, an fbi agent, and about four cops who live on my street. makes me feel protected but garsh don it they could not open their garage doors either!

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by Jay Wolt

None for me either, though the wife has one and every time it goes off when we are out driving.
I feel like tossing it out of the window.

Jay

A wonderful feature of a cell phone is that you can turn it off when you leave the house with it. It's then just like a land line....

M

[tothrk]

There's a lot to be said for living simply. I'm actually in the process of getting rid of everything I have so I can move to a little shack in the middle of nowhere and not be bothered, like the Unabomber. Except I'm not gonna blow things up.

[GoldenAge50s]

Originally Posted by tothrk

There's a lot to be said for living simply. I'm actually in the process of getting rid of everything I have so I can move to a little shack in the middle of nowhere and not be bothered, like the Unabomber. Except I'm not gonna blow things up.

I guess that means you won't even be taking an inflatable doll for company???