Frigging cell phones. A grumpy Horse story
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238268)
Walnut Creek, California
September 2, 2021 12:17pm CST
As you know, I used to work at a mother-and-child drug rehabilitation program in Oakland California. I was head of the child program there, and the book I'm working on is largely about my experiences there.
Some of my adult clients have found me on Facebook, and I have maintained relationships with them. I just called one such former client to let her know that my Facebook account was hacked, and that she can no longer contact me there.
As I was giving her information about my new Facebook account, her cell phone started to cut out. She could hear me but I couldn't hear her. Once I got the necessary information to her, I just said, "Let's talk later" and hung up.
This happens all the time when I talk to people on cell phones. It's incredible to me that some people have dropped their land lines and have ONLY cell phones. Do you know anyone like that?
I'm about to launch into a tirade about Big Brother, so I'd better stop. If I retire to the mountains of Montana and go mostly "off the grid," I'll try to visit MyLot at least once a week. I'd miss my friends here if I "went all survivalist" and no longer used any technology.
By the way, does anyone have a good recipe for squirrel and rabbit?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
2 Sep 21
He won't leave too soon, vanny... He'll get over it after you tease him a while.
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@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
2 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil (cleaning my .22)
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
2 Sep 21
Because that's what the kids called him as he ran across the floor carrying them on his back. (You did know that's how he hurt his back, right? I kept telling him six kids at a time were too many.)
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
2 Sep 21
I dropped our house phone service about fifteen years ago. Pretty wouldn't answer it so there was no reason to have it. I did everything I needed on my cellphone. (She won't answer a cellphone, either. She doesn't like talking on a phone. *sigh*)
When I was a kid on the farm we raised rabbits for sale and meat. Mom dipped the rabbit parts into an egg and milk mixture and then fried them in lard.
The cell services work fine unless you don't like technology. Cell phones can sense it when a person dislikes them and cuts in and out to teach them a lesson. (The funny part, to me, is that you'll think I'm joking. 
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
2 Sep 21
@TheHorse Yes, it was her service giving you problems... 
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@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
2 Sep 21
@DaddyEvil So she has nothing a priori against cell phones.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
2 Sep 21
There is an old, old book called Fox Fire. It is a book of survival arts which is interesting and I hope I never have to go that route. It tells how to do all sorts of old-timey things. Maybe you could snag a copy online or look at it in a library if they have it. I bought my copy at a hoarder's yard sale.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
2 Sep 21
@TheHorse I don't remember. I paid for it and then my friend came along and paid for it. He did not mention that it was already purchased. He had acres of stuff sitting everywhere and the government was always after him about it. But he got paid twice.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
3 Sep 21
Cellphones can be annoying like many other things.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
3 Sep 21
We have the opposite problem out here. If it rains more than an inch the landlines are totally useless. So when cell phones got easier to use we dropped the landline
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
4 Sep 21
@TheHorse Our stop lights seem fine in the rain. The problem I have seen in our area is they have not upgraded the cables underground in a very long time. They just do fixes as they go.
@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Sep 21
I have no landline and no cell phone, I call and message through my laptop Textnow. I really have no one to call so through the free service once a month I can call my friends in NYC I have never made squirrel or rabbit, However, I knew a lady who made an awesome rabbit stew, This recipe online is similar to what she made and it was always really good.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25843/hasenpfeffer-rabbit-stew/
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Sep 21
@TheHorse I was not too thrilled by that too but the stew was good from what I remember all those years ago, Try it with chicken and instead of calling it Hassenpfeffer scale it Chickenfeffer
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@TheHorse (238268)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Sep 21
@RasmaSandra Heh. Maybe I'll do that. I enjoy playing with chickens. But I still eat them.
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@JudyEv (381739)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Sep 21
Lots of people here have given up their landlines but I wouldn't like to be without ours. Mainly I suppose because I'm pretty useless with my mobile. Every time I tell Vince I want a rabbit he says he loves them too, especially with bacon.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
3 Sep 21
By The Horse
@TheHorse
I am sorry cannot help you with your recipe because I do not eat either of those. I have both a landline and cell phone. I call people here in the country on my cell and ask them to call back on my landline. Some do and some do not. I know people that just have cell phones and before I had a cell phone I found it very hard to call their cells. Now, I can call and ask them to call my landline and some will and some will not.
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
3 Sep 21
We have both a landline and cell phones. I would not feel safe without the landline. Did you want to PM me about your new Facebook account? So I should unfriend your old one? No recipes for critters here; but I see JJ came through for you!
@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
3 Sep 21
i could offer advice but won't.
I do promise as 5g rolls out and expands, that issue will go away. but you are five years from that point.
it is frustrating, but I know many people that have dropped landlines. i haven't used the home phone (landline) in more than a year. I only have it because its, well free.
