-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 07-03-19  08:01 <=-

 >  > Had some issues connecting there, too...? 
 JM> I had to be on Main Street and I was on another one, one block over.
 JM> Once I got over to Main Street things were fine.

Yeah, the right street always helps....  <G>
 
 >  JM> But his name was on the box, he forgot to remov
 > Good thing for neighbors....   (and you dropped off again)
 JM> He forgot to remove his name when he took down the numbers.  

Ah..  I thought that might have been what you were saying...  
 
 >  JM> friend saying to someone "Be very quiet and maybe he'll go away". 
 >  JM> (No one was home, my friend was still at work). 
 > You've got a lively (and suspicious) imagination there.... 
 JM> When I got to Denver to see a friend there, he was at work, he acted
 JM> like I just stepped out of the room than several years since we last
 JM> saw each other.
 JM> Now I have known James for years and we both have a strange sense of
 JM> humour.
 JM> After visiting a couple of hours I said I had best be on the road
 JM> and sort of stood there a minute, figuring I would be asked to stay
 JM> for dinner.  He wished me well and returned to work.

Perhaps you should have hinted a bit broader that you could be persuaded
to stay longer....?

 JM> Several days passed.
 JM> I was in East Texas or western Louisiana and called a friend to say
 JM> I would be in his town around a certain time.
 JM> Then noticed I had missed a call from James so called him back.
 JM> He said his wife Karin was highly upset I hadn't been invited to
 JM> stay for dinner, how rude, etc. and he wanted to apologize then added
 JM> "but as I told Karin if he comes to dinner he'll stay on for several
 JM> days".  LOL   

Sounds like Karin was sorry not to have had the chance to see you,
too... And might not have minded if the stay had stretched a day or
so... 

 >  JM> Must be a iPhone "feature".  
 > Could be....   Indeed strange, though....
 JM> When I was in Syracuse I was shown the Destiny Mall.  (I'm not a
 JM> mall person but did enjoy it).

I don't think I've been in there since it was renamed Destiny, but I've
heard that it's become quite a destination...

 JM> I found an Apple store and stopped in to find out why my text tone
 JM> stopped working.  
 JM> The first guy swiped this way and that, pushed this and that button,
 JM> swiped again, had my host (who was standing by us) text me with the
 JM> clerk saying it was working.
 JM> Nothing.
 JM> He swiped this way and that, pushed buttons and still nothing.
 JM> He called over another clerk who did the same thing.
 JM> Nothing.
 JM> He just handed the phone back to me saying I would have either data
 JM> or wifi on all the time, thanked me and walked away.
 JM> (I pay for data and wifi not always available).
 JM> So, I guess that's just another feature of that phone.  

There seem to be quite a few "features" of that phone that I'd not at
all like to have... another reason for me not to get a smartphone,
particularly not that one...  

 JM> Oh, and it take a day before a text arrives and often get a
 JM> undeliverable message when I send one.
 
How unhelpful.... the reason for having a phone being communication...

ttyl       neb

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