Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 16, 2020

Truth.

We had a 3am that our daughter flipped her car off the road going 75. Not a scratch however

Who is going to send an emergency email or text at 3 in the morning? That’s when you call.

Lately I’ve been getting 3am texts from Accu Weather telling me what the weather will be in 2 days. Just what I need.

It’s never good news in the middle of the night.

Baked beans are off.

We get texts at 3 in the morning when the school calls a snow day. Good news and bad news in one text. Good news for our daughter, bad news for my back.

I had weekend duty at the mine. The foreman on the night shift called me at three AM and told me ‘Everything is fine’.

Phone in the bedroom. Charging all night. Tch, tch, tch.

If a flirty message from a Facebook admirer is spam

For those who don’t know…

Unless they’re really old, you can easily set Android phones to “Do Not Disturb” between whatever hours you choose….

in most versions, it’s in “Settings”, under “Notifications.”

I’m sure it’s available on iPhone too.

You can also choose what sounds are allowed… e.g. calls, texts, communication from certain numbers… or nothing.

You don’t have to do it nightly… it’s set till you change it….

Nothing is lost… the texts arrive; the calls go to voicemail.

You just don’t hear any ringing or audible notifications.

It’s Jake from State Farm!

She’s waiting for Gene to call at 3 a.m. with; “It’s a boy!”

Been there, Janis.

Just leave the phone in the kitchen and worry about any calls in the morning.

The only calls I’ve received at 3 am were from work. I’m retired now.

Er, Janis? He is! >:-)

Before I retired I got calls from work at all hours of the day or night, an average of every couple of weeks but sometimes several times in a week, even when on vacation and when I was on bereavement leave after my mother died. The last weekend before I retired (Christmas weekend) I got a call at 5:00 Saturday morning when I was out of state. I got my computer out and took care of it so my mates would not have to. Après moi, le déluge.

Wait till you start getting “Trump Spam”!

I turn my phone off (ringer and vibrate), but my wife refuses to turn hers off too, so I hear her spam messages while she sleeps ever so soundly.

Only a parent would understand the sheer panic.

Back when you had to pay for long distance calls Hubby’s brother was living in CA, and would wait until the rates went down at 11 PM to call us. Getting a phone call at 2 AM, in Maryland, just to have somebody say “Hi, bro, how ya doin’?” was just plain annoying, and it happened twice. A few days later, Hubby got up early and called CA before our rates went up at 6 AM. It was 2 AM in CA, and sister-in-law answered the phone. Let’s just say brother never called us in the middle of the night again.

ALL of our family, except one of our grandsons, live out of state, so we took the phone out of the bedroom. I am not climbing out of bed in the middle of the night to drive from here to Tennessee. Leave a message, and we’ll talk in the morning.

I’ve always told my kids “Nothing good happens between 2 and 5 a.m.” – they’re adults now but to this day whenever they hear about an athlete or movie star or whoever getting in trouble between those hours they make sure to let their Dad know

The knock on the the door at 3 am is the worst.

My 3AM call was from son-in-law in AZ, saying my daughter was in labor. I live in TX. Got the first flight out in the morning and there was a thunderstorm that kept us sitting in the plane for half an hour. I swear I heard the baby say “It’s okay, I will wait for you”. And she did. Oh yeah, she’s a mother now!

With kids aged 15 to forever, any call after 11:00 isn’t a good one.

Got a call at 2am as I was reading this. Quite a coincidence.

Janis is right; there are so many worse scenarios!

I’m glad it will be President Biden taking that call instead of tiny sitting on his “throne” rage tweeting his garbage out to the twits.

Long before “smart” phones or “spam” meaning something other than canned meat, I got a call at 3 am, which turned out to be a wrong number… from some guy in Greece.

Then he said that as long as I had answered, we might as well chat, which we did, briefly. And just before he hung up he said that he thought that I had a good voice but that it could use some training, and he recommended a voice teacher in the city where I lived.

So does that count as “spam”?

I never keep my phone in the bedroom. I am not a doctor or fire fighter so everything can wait until morning.

Beach004 and Flatlander, please accept my condolences for your losses. Hawgowar, glad you could there for her in a couple of ways. I have my phone set to “do not disturb” during sleeping hours, and my phone won’t ring except for the few numbers that I’ve set as exceptions. If it rings in the middle of the night, the call will be from a loved one.

My mother used to call our relative in Holland whenever the mood struck her. The calls were not appreciated.

My upstairs neighbor got text alerts in the middle of the night. They woke me up, but he slept through them.

There is, and never has been, a phone in my bedroom.

Raising threes young men, I totally understand.

If you’re idiot enough to sleep with your phone you deserve whatever you get. I don’t even own one other than a land line.

Put your family in your Favorites Contacts & in your Settings go to Do Not Disturb & select the hours you don’’t want any calls/messages from anyone except those in your Favorites list. You can also allow accepting repeated calls from the same person within three minutes who is not in your Favorites which would allow contacts from someone trying to notify you of something urgent.

smartphone stays in the livingroom at night. There is a landline in be bedroom for emergencies, but I hate being awakened by incoming texts, etc.

Yeah, it could be the Kremlin but, by an infinite shot, she’s better taking then Hillary would have been.

Got one at 3:30am some years ago from the security alarm company. There was a robber on our office at that time. Fortunately just some material stuff was lost, a broken glass door, some smartphones. Looking back, I was lucky. A phone call at that time is not good news, it could have been something worst.

Nice job drawing the night lighting

We don’t go to bed (especially these days) until 4 or 5 am and sleep until afternoon. We get a call every morning that wakes us up, the machine answers, no one is there.

If there is an emergency with my mom, my sister calls no matter what time. If non-emergency she texts whenever she gets the news about mom.

That’s about 98% or more of the telephone calls we get. No one else calls, no one else texts, and we don’t call anyone else or text them except in odd situations. Currently I am slowly calling all of our credit card companies, banks, and insurance companies to change our mailing address from our PO box to our house as there is problem with forwarding the mail from the box to the house as we don’t go out and can’t pick up the mail at the box.

Don’t take the phone to bed. I leave mine in the kitchen.