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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#1: Feb 25th 2012 at 2:59:17 PM

Right, so I'm locked out of my room, wearing pajamas and flipflops, starving since I lack money and the means to reach a location to get food, and having a hard time working since a lot of stuff i need is also in my room.

And guess where my roomate's phone is? In the room.

So now I'm wondering, do I have a basis in screaming at him for not keeping his cell phone on him? Because I plan to. Than I might eat him.

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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#2: Feb 25th 2012 at 3:01:54 PM

I wouldn't say screaming is necessary, but you have good reasons to be rather cross with him.

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HungryJoe Gristknife from Under the Tree Since: Dec, 2009
Gristknife
#3: Feb 25th 2012 at 3:10:11 PM

I wouldn't scream if this hadn't happened yesterday too and I had to pay $30 to get into my room so I could sprint to class.

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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#4: Feb 25th 2012 at 3:15:51 PM

Well, shit. Yeah, that definitely understandable. Though I find displaying an aura of calm fury to be more effective. People start getting scared when you're coldly angry, whereas I've found most people just get defensive when you start yelling.

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TomoeMichieru Samurai Troper from Newnan, GA (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Mu
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#5: Feb 25th 2012 at 3:27:01 PM

Why have one if you're not going to keep it on you?

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RainbowMatt Prettiest Pony :3 from the cave of unspeakable naughtiness Since: Oct, 2011 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#6: Feb 25th 2012 at 4:42:43 PM

My smartphone is never more than 5 ft from me. Unless I leave it in the car like I did last night :P

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Blackmoon Since: May, 2009
#7: Feb 25th 2012 at 5:10:18 PM

I generally take my smartphone with me, but that's because for me, it's a mobile IM platform, remote PC access, web browser, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, PDA, and watch. Which I can call people from if I feel like it.

Point is, it does too much stuff to justify me leaving it behind when I leave the house. tongue

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#8: Feb 25th 2012 at 5:34:13 PM

Same for me Blackmoon

edited 25th Feb '12 5:34:22 PM by RainbowMatt

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Leradny Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Feb 25th 2012 at 5:52:36 PM

Is there a window you can pry open?

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#10: Feb 25th 2012 at 10:18:02 PM

Back before I had a smartphone, I was in the habit of keeping it on me unless it was charging, but I'd only charge it if it was dying/dead, and then forget to take it off the charger the next day.

Now that I have an everything device, I pretty much always remember to grab it before I leave, and it's easier to since I got a dock for it in the last week.

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Trollkastel Not a Princess from the Tea Party Since: Dec, 2011
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#11: Feb 25th 2012 at 10:20:30 PM

@Blackmoon: Where's your towel?

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#12: Feb 25th 2012 at 10:37:51 PM

Blackmoon: The Guide is most definitely a Tablet/e-reader with wireless internet.

edited 25th Feb '12 10:38:08 PM by TParadox

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Feb 26th 2012 at 12:12:20 AM

Sometimes if I'm running late or something I'll forget it, but I try to have it with me even if I'm just biking over to the convenience store or what have you. Part of it is because in the past I have been in an accident and needed it in the past.

AStrayBard Sega's Last Hope from 867-5309 Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#14: Feb 26th 2012 at 12:20:56 AM

My phone's usually in my pocket. At most, it'll be no more than 10 ft from me.

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#15: Feb 26th 2012 at 12:27:52 AM

I keep my mobile on me because its sole raison d'etre is to be used in emergencies. If I have an emergency and it's elsewhere...well, that'd just be silly.

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Inhopelessguy Since: Apr, 2011
#16: Feb 26th 2012 at 11:54:55 AM

My mobile is for emergencies, really. Nonetheless, I keep it with me, except when I'm out with someone else with a mobile.

Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#17: Feb 26th 2012 at 11:59:33 AM

I don't have a cell phone.

But I have a pager.

... That's weird, isn't it?

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OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#18: Feb 26th 2012 at 4:48:03 PM

i usually always have my phone, but screaming at your roommate for not having his when this is twice in two days that you left your key in your room is a scummy thing to do.

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Lock Space Wizard from Germany Since: Sep, 2010
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#20: Feb 26th 2012 at 4:50:42 PM

Do you keep your cellphone on you?
Pretty much all the time during the week.

But turned off...

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#21: Feb 26th 2012 at 5:25:51 PM

[up][up]See, they're these things people used to use for business...long story short, Mukora is weird.

I keep my phone on me all the time. I cannot be without it, especially since whenever I'm out on my own if I don't pick it up when my mom calls she calls it until I answer, and I don't want her to be stuck in an endless loop.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#22: Feb 26th 2012 at 5:32:41 PM

No. And when it's on me, it's usually turned off so people have trouble reaching me... Yeah, I'm terrible about mobiles.

That sucks sad I, too, have a habit of locking myself out of my room, but we only have to pay money to get it opened if it's between 10-30pm and 7am.

Once I locked myself out of my room during a shower. That was embarrassing. I had to wait in the hall for the security guy wearing my flimsy little dressing gown and clutching my soap.

edited 26th Feb '12 5:34:11 PM by LoniJay

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Uniocular
#23: Feb 26th 2012 at 5:57:59 PM

@Hopey: It's this thing doctors use. And drug dealers.

I am neither.

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HersheleOstropoler You gotta get yourself some marble columns from BK.NY.US Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Less than three
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#24: Feb 26th 2012 at 7:08:12 PM

I will very, very occasionally leave the house without it on purpose, there's a grocery around the corner and I don't always bother when I'm just going there. Otherwise I always have it.

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DarkConfidant Since: Aug, 2011
#25: Feb 26th 2012 at 7:12:27 PM

I don't often have my cell phone with me, for precisely the same reason a lot of people keep them on hand - I don't want the constant connectedness, and the distractions of internet access, e-mail, and the like. That, and I don't really have anyone who I'm particularly interested in needing to talk to at any particular time.


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