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Rod Speed wrote
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Fredxx wrote

I don't own a mobile phone

That sounds very ludditish.

Not really

Yes, really.

I have never needed one for anything.

Bull****.

The ONLY time I needed one was when I broke down
in Bavaria and had to ring the AA. Mrs had a brand
new Samsung Galaxy, but did not know how to
swipe the screen to answer their return call.

Thats bull**** too. You must have needed to work out
where to eat or stay and could have used your smartphone
to see whats local and see which looked like worth trying
if you werent such a dinosaur. Instead, you had to waddle
off in person, dragging your immense wheeled bin stuffed
with all those dedicated satnavs and cameras etc.

Luckily, I was parked in a Shell station, walked into
the shop and borrowed their landline phone. That
was in 2015 and was the last time I could have used
one. Since then, I have used petrol stations' WiFi to access
the internet and e-mail with my Acer Aspire notebook.

And that isnt viable when walking around some foreign town.
If you had enough of a clue to have a decent smartphone,
you could just take it out of your pocket and use it.

Mrs M uses her Galaxy to text our daughters on occasions though,
but is always moaning about the number of unidentified calls she
gets from spam companies and texts that seem to steal her money.

Clearly luddites marry luddites.