People are so accustomed to cell phones and texting...

I give people at work my business card, for them to email me documents and things.

I can't tell you how many times I never receive it. When I ask them about it they say

"I texted you that yesterday/last week"

You cannot text a landline work phone...🤦

Do they think I'm giving them my cell phone number or what??
I don't get it

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

I think that some people will never get that into their heads, since they have never had a landline phone.

Years ago, I had what I affectionately called my "geezer phone". It was a flip cell-phone, with no internet. Texting was very crude (three characters per key). And the storage capacity was limited.

I had a friend who kept sending me long poems he was writing. A single poem would get broken up into about 10 messages (there was a character limit per message) which I had to read separately. And, in doing so, he was wiping out earlier messages from my inbox.

No matter how many times I asked him to stop, he could not get this into his head. He would send these things, and then ask "What did you think of my poem?"

🤦‍♂️

iamnikki · 31-35, F

@DrWatson lol omg. Yes I remember flip phone and 3 hits per number. My first phone was a flip. Then I graduated to sidekick style phone. The ones that swing out when you open it.

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@iamnikki I remember those too. But I bought my first phone, the flip, when most people already had smart phones! lol. Hence my term, "geezer phone!"

But back to your post: I expect a work phone number to be a landline. A business card usually includes an email address or even a fax number (still!) for sending data.

We geezers can tell the difference! 😂

iamnikki · 31-35, F

@DrWatson yes I had to upgrade my mom about 10 years ago. She was 45 at the time, with a flip phone lol.

Yea fax is annoying to me. Just gimme an email 📨