I'm so old I Remember when:

[R2elk]

I prefer self checkout. Even when there's 12 'regular' checkouts, there's never more than half staffed even on the busiest Saturday morning. Those that are staffed, there always needs to be a price check or someone who needs to chat with the cashier or the 3 people in front of you have overflowing carts, and on and on to make the wait longer than necessary. I just want to make my purchase and leave the store. The only time I go to the manned registered is if I have more than the "about 20" items in my cart.

My brother only uses self checkout because he thinks the cashiers are either incompetent or crooked.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Nokia?

In about 2001 I was driving from Tulum to Coba (Mex.). It was 30 miles of jungle and a few grass huts.
I saw one man, walking with a machete in one hand and talking on a phone.
I realized at that moment, "Cell phones may not be a fad."

 

[NanaK]

Did his cell phone look like this?

My first one was similar, more like a purse.
That thing worked even out in the boonies. Never dropped a call.

 

[Evadig]

Did his cell phone look like this?

My first one was similar, more like a purse.
That thing worked even out in the boonies. Never dropped a call.

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Then I would prefer it over a fancy Iphone. Mine doesn't work 75% of the time even when hooked up to wifi.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Then I would prefer it over a fancy Iphone. Mine doesn't work 75% of the time even when hooked up to wifi.

When you mentioned Nokia I remembered them being the hot brand then.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[Nomadicus]

Nextel was the fad.....

 

[Nomadicus]

Beepers were just a stop gap way to get you to a pay phone.... So you could be annoyed twice by a telemarketer.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when phones were made with two tin cans connected by a string.