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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

How did we even live prior to cell phones? We never had a phone so we could go out and know the babysitter could call right away.

Our homes even burned down when we went out. /s

I sat in a restaurant one afternoon where a woman about 50 took her mother out to eat. The woman sat there engrossed in that freaking phone and never said one word to that woman she was with. Not one word. It was sad to see.


18 posted on 04/19/2026 4:24:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

“How did we even live prior to cell phones?”

How did we ever let our kids walk to school, play in the street, ride bicycles without helmets, or not know where they were after school as long as they came home for dinner.

ANSWER: We’re not supposed to remember the pre-Soros America, when, among other things, we locked up the crazies, and our supermarkets didn’t look like the UN. Because if we do remember that country, we’d NEVER vote Democrat, or even sit out elections, again.


23 posted on 04/19/2026 4:44:55 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: dforest
How did we even live prior to cell phones? We never had a phone so we could go out and know the babysitter could call right away.

Books and periodicals. While this thread is about tables, I've always brought a magazine or small book into bars to hang around for a couple hours and have a couple of top shelf cocktails. I like the energy of the places, but don't always want to engage in conversation. Or sometimes a good looking woman will inquire about what I'm reading, and there's my opening...

The proprietors and service staff never complain because I tip very generously.

28 posted on 04/19/2026 4:59:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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