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Same way we did in the 90s. Someone just shouts "Gnicholas, your wife is on the phone!"

• raldi 4y ago
  Or have one of those pager systems some restaurants use to let you know your burger is ready. You don't need one for every attendee; just the ones who are parents, doctors, etc., and specifically come up to request one (and register it in their name).
  • trinix912 4y ago
    Pagers solve the issue for such professions, firefighters have them, those things are loud... For parents? Perhaps, but if you're paying for daycare you might as well trust them to get things right.
    • raldi 4y ago
      I'm talking about one of these things, which are often vibrate-only: https://www.google.com/search?q=restaurant+pager&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=restaurant+pager&tbm=isch Also, not a daycare center, but a babysitter. For many of the babysitters we get, we're meeting them for the first time when they show up at our door; that's just reality these days. And it's not uncommon for them to text us while we're out, though thankfully no emergencies so far.
  • tomjen3 4y ago
    Seems much easier just to put your phone on silent/dnd and then deal with it like an adult.
• tomjen3 4y ago
  That worked in the 90's. But this all depends on infrastructure and I have worked in a couple of places now where we wouldn't have a phone number to call, because everybody has phones. Its like saying "just use a pay phone, like we used to do". You could, except there isn't a single payphone in my country.