Sorry, my phone was set to silent mode!
@katcarneo (1433)
Philippines
July 31, 2012 11:40pm CST
He asked me to call him and wake him up at 7am because ha may just sleep through his cell phone alarm.
He needs to take his medicine every day at 7am (four pills) as he is being treated for tuberculosis.
Yesterday he started working again after being unemployed for a while and his work schedule is 3:00pm -12 midnight.
When he arrived home, he played DOTA until it was 4am.
I called him at 7 o clock in the morning and there was no answer. I called repeatedly.
I kept calling him until it was lunchtime and my battery was running low.
I called him no less than 50 times.
So he finally woke up, and all he could say was 'Sorry, my phone was set to silent mode!'
I got mad at him saying it was totally inconsiderate of him to ask me a favor to call him while I am at work and then not check his phone. If he was really serious about wanting to wake up at 7am, that phone should have been set to maximum volume, and positioned next to him while he was sleeping!
I am not in the wrong here, right?
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10 responses
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
1 Aug 12
As they can't keep of track of their things, they authorise someone else to take care of it and the 'someone else' also are not vijil about it, what a pity on it. Yes, it happens many times. Even today for me also the same. I kept the phone in the front room and it was ringing over there, but I didn't heard the voice. But as usual I got up at 7:15 without the reminder from the cell phone.
Also, please note that don't keep the mobile phone(s) near to our pillow or on the top side anywhere near to the bed as there is radiaton due to it. It is harmful and you can keep it anywher atleast 2 mtrs. away from your sleeping place and also, don't speak throgh a phone which is connedted to charging due to less battery and the radiation is almost double while it is with low battery, which charging position.
Now you can tell to the 'he' that keep proper alarm by himself and get alert by own effort instead of blaming for their mistakes.
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
1 Aug 12
Good for you that you can wake up without the need for a cellphone alarm. He on the other hand is highly reliant on people to wake him up. Now that we are working conflicting shifts, he has to wake up by himself since I am at work. I admit we both sleep with our cell phones on the bed, and the combination of the alarm sound and the vibration is effective in waking me up.
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
Thanks for your advice. I just hate it that he gives me the responsibility to wake him up when he stays up until early morning playing computer games. He did it again today! I told him yesterday that I didn't want to have to call him and wake him up. He begged me to do it again. So I did. And guess what? His cell phone was on silent mode AGAIN today and I took the effort to call him for nothing. He never learns.
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
2 Aug 12
Hi,
It's ok, some people may be deep in sleep, especially early morning time and it may be habituated. Also, some people are so panctual and they will get up without the help of alarm, and that also without anyone's help.
Anyway, hope you will take care of keeping the mobiles little away from the sleeping place. We won't realise the impact immediately or instantly. It is a slow process which will harm our body and brain tissues of we keep the phone so near to our pillow or somewhere nearer.
Have a nice day.
@chum24 (569)
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
same problem before he also asked me to call him because he don't want to be late in review i called him 6times i think, you know why he got mad at me because early in the morning i called him and i told him you are the one who wants to wake up early so that you will not get late in review and he said to me you are stupid!! duh!!!
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
2 Aug 12
Ah I therefore conclude that we should never accept such favors ever again. How inconsiderate and ungrateful of these people!
@sk66rc (4250)
• United States
1 Aug 12
This is one of the reasons why I won't rely on anyone else for anything... He should've been more responsible for his own thing... Not rely on you to wake him up... I'm assuming this wasn't the first time he had to take his medication in the morning? He knew he had to do something in the morning but he stayed up anyway... Playing game at that, not doing something important... Don't get me wrong, I'm not against doing somebody a favor but if I were you, I would've called twice & if he didn't answer, I would've left a voicemail & that would've been it...
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
1 Aug 12
This is basically my attitude for everything---self-reliance. He on the other hand, even relies on me to find his socks! Staying up late when he has to wake up early the next day is another bad habit of his. We have argued about that a couple of times before.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
1 Aug 12
You are right on this one and well he asked you a favor and you did your part, too bad he was careless to set it in silent mode! I would also be quite irritated if it did happen to me too.
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
1 Aug 12
He said the phone was on silent mode since he attended training for his new job yesterday. Still I am very annoyed with him!
@flapiz (22403)
• United Kingdom
10 Oct 18
Oh I know what you mean. It’s like my mum and dad who can’t be contacted due to silent phone or worst low battery. It can be frustrating. What’s the point of having these gadgets if you don’t use it accordingly?
@mrswhitfield (2044)
• Indonesia
1 Aug 12
Have you met him after he his sorry? If not yet, make sure to meet him, ask his mobile and set alarm for him , set 10 time alarms on his mobile. If he want to wake up at 7pm, set his mobile alarm every 2 minutes start from 6.40pm, make sure the alarm sound is set to the max, choose the noisiest musics/tones in his playlist as alarm. I did the same to my class mate at collage cos she is hard to wake up to attend morning class, so I setted her mobile to ring every 2 minutes cos Im lazy to call her over and over but she just didnt wake up.
@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
1 Aug 12
Yes, yes, since we live together. I met him later in the day. I told him to set his alarm properly, but he still requested for me to call him and make sure he wakes up. Sometimes I feel like he wants me to be his mother.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
7 Aug 12
You're definitely right. I can saythat he is very irresponsable asking someone a favor and forgot checking his phone volume. He is treating his tuberculosis so I guess he needs to sleep sufficiently. He needs to take care of himself. He should be responsible enough to wake on time to take his four pills if he really wants to get well. He should not play DOTA. It will not do him any good. Next time, if he will ask you a favor to wake him up. Reject it.
@litvillegas (1274)
• Philippines
3 Aug 12
HI katcarneo
This is really annoying. If it happened to me I would also do the same thing. In my opinion why not teaching him a lesson...lol...Try not to call him so he will realize what he did to you...but anyways you need to understand him sometimes maybe he think a lot of things at work...
