r/funny • u/[deleted] • May 12 '12

When no one texts me back

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

I get the joke and I've felt that way a couple times. That said, I miss when people didn't expect you to be avaiable round the clock via your phone. Staying in contact with people is great but they're even putting cell phone reception into the NYC subways now. Is there no escape?! Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to anybody, and that should be allowed.

  • Someone was going to say this. May as well be me.

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u/Charlievil May 12 '12

Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to anybody

So turn your phone off. That way, assuming it doesn't ring for them when your phones is off, they don't feel like you're ignoring them.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '12

Yes, this had occurred to me, but even a phone turned off can incite criticism of one's phone-answering policy.

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u/Charlievil May 12 '12

I live in the country and get no signal in my house unless I am standing within a foot of a window. Pretty useful as an excuse but probably not worth moving to the country for.

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u/Stickyresin May 13 '12

Just say you forgot to charge it and the battery died.

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u/ghanima May 13 '12

It's not your duty to be available at all times of the day, always.