Lied to wife about lost billfold.

[Dftodd]

These stories bring back a memory of when I lost my car. I was only around 21 years old and took my wife to the movies. We parked the car and then spotted a better park further down the street so moved it there. When we came out of the movies we had forgotten that we had relocated the car and were about to call the police when we spotted it further down the street. Not a fan of eggs but they were all over my face that night.

I got one better. Buddy went out with some friends one night. Got up the next morning to go run some errands and his motorcycle was gone

He reported it stolen. Went and bought another bike so he had transportation.

Got a call two days later. His biked was found 1/2 a mile from his house in a strip mall parking lot locked up.

Strip mall happened to have the bar where he met his friends

He had to much to drunk and his friends took him home

 

[RSKY]

How did you manage to live BEFORE you had a mobile phone?

I still do not have one. I understand young folks know no better, but when did all you older blokes decide you had to have one to survive? Why must you have one? Serious questions, because I have never found it essential to have any sort of telephone. Useful, but not essential. Few things in life are so important that you must know immediately, or tell someone else immediately.

Safety, safety, safety!!!

Started carrying mine full time twenty years ago when youngest daughter had a medical condition due to some medicine she was taking. She literally went blind on her way home from school. I was in a meeting at work when I received a text from my wife with the numbers "911" then about thirty seconds later a phone call from my wife. Ran out of the room going by the plant manager screaming my daughter is in trouble. To tell you what kind of man he was he followed me out and yelled out asking if I needed any help.

Then both our parents were getting older and we insisted they carry theirs constantly because, "one of the grands may need help and you might be the only one they could reach!". That worked and they all carried theirs with them all the time.

Now we carry them in case our kids or grands need us. And only a few we know have land lines any more. So all communication with doctors, businesses, etc. is by cell.

RSKY

 

[Torvy]

Safety, safety, safety!!!

Started carrying mine full time twenty years ago when youngest daughter had a medical condition due to some medicine she was taking. She literally went blind on her way home from school. I was in a meeting at work when I received a text from my wife with the numbers "911" then about thirty seconds later a phone call from my wife. Ran out of the room going by the plant manager screaming my daughter is in trouble. To tell you what kind of man he was he followed me out and yelled out asking if I needed any help.

Then both our parents were getting older and we insisted they carry theirs constantly because, "one of the grands may need help and you might be the only one they could reach!". That worked and they all carried theirs with them all the time.

Now we carry them in case our kids or grands need us. And only a few we know have land lines any more. So all communication with doctors, businesses, etc. is by cell.

RSKY

There are a bunch of good reasons to have a phone on you. Would have saved me a lot of stress and a few whoopins back in the day.

My problem is kids having them in school. Parents are nearly as big of a problem. Parents think they need immediate contact with students, even during class. Our parents could call the school if there was an actual emergency. Now they fight the school if we restrict access to phones during class. To be fair, there are some benefits of students have phones on class, but they are not worth the distraction.

 

[Jstpssng]

There are a bunch of good reasons to have a phone on you. Would have saved me a lot of stress and a few whoopins back in the day.

My problem is kids having them in school. Parents are nearly as big of a problem. Parents think they need immediate contact with students, even during class. Our parents could call the school if there was an actual emergency. Now they fight the school if we restrict access to phones during class. To be fair, there are some benefits of students have phones on class, but they are not worth the distraction.

I was in elementary school when a teacher suddenly walked over to a classmate's gym bag and started pawing through it until he pulled out a transistor radio. Can you imagine that now?
A) Getting in trouble for having a radio, and
B) A teacher going through a student's personal items in the first place?

About 12 years ago I was working with a newly hired summer intern, after his sophomore year in college. He apparently had a bad wisdom tooth which needed to be pulled; and his mother called him several times over the course of the day. We were a mile from the truck at the time, and he was supposed to be working.

They are handy though. I got my first cell phone in 1996, after I almost had to walk out of the woods after working all day. It was hot , I was still beat from putting in a good day the previous day, and I'd lost a quart of Gatorade when I put it in a stream to keep cool... not realizing it would sink. I knocked off early and as I was walking back to my truck I discovered that somebody haad dumped a load of gravel across a culvert to spread at a later date and was coming back with 3 more... not realizing I was on the other side of the dead end road. Had I worked a full day the road would have been fully blocked.

We've all been issued Garmin InReach units. inReach MINI Satellite Communicator
These tie into satellites so hopefully in an emergency we can send a message for help, even without cell coverage. Anybody who watches Matt's Offroad may have noticed that he had one of these mounted to his dash in a recent episode.

No matter what you carry for safety though, it's all useless if you don't use what's between your ears.

 

[Sigarms]

Safety, safety, safety!!!

Started carrying mine full time twenty years ago when youngest daughter had a medical condition due to some medicine she was taking. She literally went blind on her way home from school. I was in a meeting at work when I received a text from my wife with the numbers "911" then about thirty seconds later a phone call from my wife. Ran out of the room going by the plant manager screaming my daughter is in trouble. To tell you what kind of man he was he followed me out and yelled out asking if I needed any help.

Then both our parents were getting older and we insisted they carry theirs constantly because, "one of the grands may need help and you might be the only one they could reach!". That worked and they all carried theirs with them all the time.

Now we carry them in case our kids or grands need us. And only a few we know have land lines any more. So all communication with doctors, businesses, etc. is by cell.

RSKY

With that story, you're actually afraid to tell your wife that you lost your billfold?

Losing crap in or on your possession is simple crap that really doesn't really matter at the end of the day.

That said, if the billfold had money to pay bills the family was expecting to be used, you say something. If it's "trivial" money, who cares?

Heck, I was just asking my wife this morning where in the heck I put the spreadsheet on the computer for two bathroom remodels. I had it under my last name on my desktop instead of "Bathroom remodels" after looking at various spread sheets, and that was with my wife looking over my shoulder on the computer.

Perhaps I'm the last man on earth who asks their wife where I put something

 

[bigtiller]

There are a bunch of good reasons to have a phone on you. Would have saved me a lot of stress and a few whoopins back in the day.

My problem is kids having them in school. Parents are nearly as big of a problem. Parents think they need immediate contact with students, even during class. Our parents could call the school if there was an actual emergency. Now they fight the school if we restrict access to phones during class. To be fair, there are some benefits of students have phones on class, but they are not worth the distraction.

There's the sticky point. It has to be on you.

When Mrs.tiller fell, her feet were about 4' away from the home phone but she couldn't get to it. Had she put her ph in a pocket, she could have called and got help about 45 minutes sooner.

Mrs.tiller broke her back

Mrs.tiller was rearranging pics on the wall Wednesday when she fell from the second rung of a 3-step platform ladder. She fell straight back landing on her back in the doorway between the living room and bedroom. The pain was so bad she couldn't move. The phone was just around the corner on the...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Jstpssng]

There's the sticky point. It has to be on you.

When Mrs.tiller fell, her feet were about 4' away from the home phone but she couldn't get to it. Had she put her ph in a pocket, she could have called and got help about 45 minutes sooner.

Mrs.tiller broke her back

Mrs.tiller was rearranging pics on the wall Wednesday when she fell from the second rung of a 3-step platform ladder. She fell straight back landing on her back in the doorway between the living room and bedroom. The pain was so bad she couldn't move. The phone was just around the corner on the...

www.tractorbynet.com

I don't believe that they offer it anymore, but my mother's old cell phone has a simple button she can push to call 9-1-1. She lives alone and keeps it in her pocket all day.

 

[scootr]

If you have Siri you don't even need to reach the phone. Hey Siri call 911. Done

 

[OldMcDonald]

You live a different lifestyle than most.

I think that answers my question - thanks for the response.