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I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
by apricot 3y ago
I don't have a cell phone. What should I have done in this situation?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- ta8645 3y agoSame as if you want to sign up for OpenAI. You can't, so go somewhere else.
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- GaggiX 3y agoWithout a cell phone I would be more concerned about other things than the parking lot, such as how people contact you when you are out?
- saulpw 3y agoI have a flipphone. People can contact me if they need to (they never do). I can't use a QR code or app or whatever. How do I pay for parking?
- GaggiX 3y agoWell it's clearly nonsense that some parking lots required having a smartphone with some data available in the data plan. Still I was just wondering about the author of the parent post that reported that he didn't have a cell phone.
- cfeduke 3y agoYou don't, but you are also statistically unlikely to spend money (or, perhaps spend very little) at where ever you're trying to park so everyone concerned would prefer you move along to make room for a paying customer please. :)
- saulpw 3y agoI guess if you s/park/live then this is why everyone concerned would rather poor people just get on with it and die already. I mean if you're not going to spend money then please move along and make room for a paying customer.
- klyrs 3y ago1. Why do I want people to contact me while I'm out? It's almost always spam, and assuming it's not, it's almost always a them problem. 2. If I did want people to contact me, a flip phone would work fine for that. Without a smart phone with a data plan, it is becoming harder and harder to navigate the world made for advertizers and cellular providers. And these parking companies don't want to make it easy for you to pay for parking. They'd much rather you have a frustrating experience, take the risk of not paying and getting impounded.
- GaggiX 3y ago>Why do I want people to contact me while I'm out? I mean I would think you have a family and just to organize something you would need to communicate, even when you're outside. >a flip phone would work fine for that. Yes flip phones are indeed cell phones.
- clipsy 3y ago> I mean I would think you have a family and just to organize something you would need to communicate, even when you're outside. This seems to come as a shock to much of the HN crowd, but people did in fact manage to organize things before cell phones existed.
- klyrs 3y agoPeople even made plans to meet at a specific time and place before phones were invented. When they left their houses, nobody was able to deliver a letter to them. I'd say it went fine, but honestly, they're all dead now.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoIf only they'd been carrying an emergency phone at all times
- GaggiX 3y agoThere was even a time when people used to get around without driving, and so they didn't have to worry about finding a parking space.
- teddyh 3y ago<http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/incremental-progress http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/incremental-progress>
- apricot 3y agoThey email me, or call and leave a message on my answering machine, or sometimes even write me a letter that eventually finds its way to my house. I get the message and answer it when I have time. In the not so distant past, it was perfectly normal for a person not to be reachable at all times. Today it became a luxury. I choose to indulge in it.
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- pvaldes 3y agoEnjoy the fact that you still keep control over your life
- petee 3y agoLoudly complain to your city. If you have plenty of spare time in your life you could just park anyway, and dispute in court that there is no physical way to pay, and they can't force everyone to own a phone.