My Phone Is Making Me Feel Old

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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:45 pm

I bought an iphone 5 from eBay from a guy who reconditions them, great, except that fluff from my pocket gets in the camera lens over time and the photos get 'foggy'. I sent it to another guy on Ebay who cleaned it for a small fee. It does everything I want, had a new case and screen, and won't turn itself into a paperweight when I have it unofficially repaired, unlike later models with the fingerprint reader.

My wife gets my castoffs, she's quite happy with my old iphone 3gs, as it cost her nothing.

I was going to swap for an iphone 6, having got an online part exchange quote on my old one, but as a scruffy older person, was studiously ignored by the 'greeter' at the local Apple store, who were more interested in some sort of training day they were having. I turned on my heel and went home with the money still in my pocket, and haven't regretted it since.

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:13 pm

The phone at my cottage is a wall mounted rotary unit that has been there since maybe 1970. To answer a call or to make one for that matter one must press the plunger on top which does away with those pesky multiple rings and lends a certain amount of privacy since this is a ‘party line’.

Mind you, we are the only people on the party line these days but don’t tell Ma Bell eh?

In RL work provides me with a phone so that I can always be contacted 24/7 (am important surely?). Sadly it seldom works at home but it is a bitchin’ flashlight and timepiece when needed.

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