I remember (my fault) for leaving a paper to the last minute to transcribe. Unfortunately I had my lower wisdom teeth surgically removed (impacted) that day. I looked like I had been run over by a bus when I handed in the paper. Doh .. did a two-sided page. Instant fail.
Yikes. I had one of my wisdom teeth removed, and when I got home I told my grandmother I was going to bed. Maybe half an hour later, one of my regulars showed up, insisting that she just had to have her resume and cover letter typed NOW (some of them didn't bother phoning to book an appointment - they figured that since I was always home, they could drop in any time and expect to get things done). My grandmother tried to tell her I wasn't well, but I figured that a job was a job, and at least it wouldn't take long.
In college I got sick of trying to come up with interesting titles for my papers, and, inspired by the writings of certain Cold War era figures, I just started to name all my papers "Regarding [fill in the blank]" or "On [fill in the blank]." Kor
One of my social work clients started calling her assignments "Essay #1" , "Essay #2", and so on. She was one of the ones who asked me to choose a title for it and I said no.
[SIZE=17px][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody][COLOR=rgb(69, 69, 69)] Or if your phone has fallen into water (be it an ocean, a swimming pool, or a urinal), or if you've been mugged, or if you do not have the phone on your person while out in a car that simply won't go any further, or, or, or ... I once had to call my bank, from a foreign country (England), in order to have them send me some money. My sister called grandma from Italy for the same reason at another time.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
If I'm outside of my home town, I absolutely cannot get around without a smartphone, for navigation, for last minute double checking to make sure places I'm going to are open, etc. Kor
Agreed. I often have my navigation on even if I know where I'm going to see traffic and for possible alternate routes.
I love smartphones and all the apps. (owner of a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 and a very cheap Nokia) At first I was anti- text (why would anyone want to do that, its quicker to call), anti- camera (what's wrong with buying a proper camera), anti- apps (why spend time playing games, why would I want to do my banking, shopping, booking hotel rooms etc on a phone, what if I lose it?) Now I do all of the above.. and more! The only thing I still refuse to do is watch movies or tv, can't stand the small screen.
[SIZE=17px][FONT=UICTFontTextStyleBody][COLOR=rgb(69, 69, 69)] I saw it as the perfection of the phone; never again would I have to be interrupted in whatever I was doing and tend to someone elses problems, I could just wait til I had the time to read their message and react to it in my own good time. Plus there wasn't all this messy waste of time with hellos and how-are-yous and whatnot (while you had to excuse yourself from whatever company you were in and have one arm tied up by holding the darn device).[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
I think it depends on the conversation you need to have. If all I'm saying is "hey can you get some milk on your way home" or "leaving now be there in 20 minutes" then a quick text is perfect.
Yeah I don't get that myself. What's the urgency or attraction for watching TV or movies on a crappy mobile screen? Unless we had phones with nanotech where the screen could expand well I will say no thanks.......
My 8th grade science teacher asked us to name the states of matter. I mentioned plasma, and he said that was just science fiction and not real. It's particularly funny because my answer showed up in a state-mandated exam at the end of the year, and everybody else would have gotten the question wrong if they believed the teacher.
Our geography teacher changed his mind about what the capital of Iceland was every week. I never changed my answer on his pop quizzes but one week it would be right, the next not,
I read another anecdote somewhere about a math teacher who thought that a student made up the term "googolplex." Where do these teachers learn their stuff? Kor
True. But so often it seems that they only learn the stuff up to the grade level that they are teaching themselves, rather than becoming experts in the subjects that they teach. And then if a student finds out something beyond that grade level, the teacher insists that it's some made-up nonsense. Kor
I have a story of the opposite. My little brother was supposed to write plants that grow in our home state. To help the children, the teacher said they should think of tea. In our family, my uncle made his own tea, collecting all kinds of herbs. It had a phantasy name, which was combined from his name and village where he lived. So my brother wrote that Sipromi is a plant. The teacher, even though she never had heard of it, could not prove otherwise and gave him the point