The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 30, 2022

She can do it, too. It’s been a gripe of mine that cell phone companies don’t know the meaning of unlimited.

If Gladys keeps this up, she’ll be in need of an upgrade to a “new” phone – soon!!

/SHMIRK/

Do plans have talk and text limits on them anymore?

My wife’s family is very taciturn. ’Hello." “ok” click.

I think you two oughta get separate cell phone plans and let her pay for her own. Meanwhile, you can switch to Consumer Cellular and get their basic plan for under $30.

Well in a way you’re lucky. When your wife is perfectly content and satisfied with a Blah Blah Phone, she at least isn’t asking you to give her diamonds and a mink coat!

To infinity … and beyond!

If you don’t use it you’ll lose it. Talk on Gladys!!!

My reaction to when the guy in the phone store “explained” their “unlimited wireless” plan: “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

is that even possible? that be fun to see… err, well hear.

Finally, after 2 months of Sunday reruns, new Born Loser Sunday strips resume!

Started with Sprint in ‘94 and they sold out and of course it’s Verizon now which totally beats any phone network out there. Grandkids and Greatgrands always got new phones every 6 months new plans with various Companies but end up with Verizon. My cell number has never changed since 1994 nor my two home phone numbers since 1984 (retired Air Force).

Between her and her mother, they may yet set Olympic Records. Might be the first tie for a Gold Medal for Olympic Phone Call Usage…..

You shouldn’t have told her that you signed up for the unlimited plan Brutus.

Apparently she has succeeded!

Better than her nagging to you

Admit it Brutus you got the unlimited plan because you thought it would cut down on the Mother Gargle visits.

It needs to be called something other than “cell phone”. It is probably used less as a phone than anything else. I remember an I article read once about future predictions that were made back in the 1930s. It wasn’t called cell phone, but it did describe a “unit” that would be assigned to someone at birth with a unique number that would follow them the rest of their life, with the characteristics that described all the features of a cell phone.

The only problem I see, Brutus, is that her talking might be a distraction as you’re reading your paper. When my wife and I encounter that issue, we just go to separate rooms.

I didn’t think any plans charged by the minute anymore. I was under the impression all of them were pretty much unlimited. I haven’t worried about mobile minutes in over a decade and am a little taken aback that this isn’t the norm now. Go figure.

She talks too much? Does she worry you to death? Does she even worry Kewpie?

I know some guys at work like that. They have their blue tooth earpieces and are constantly on the phone. Don’t get me wrong, I can get on a roll talking, but even I can’t talk as much as those guys.

As for Brutus, should have picked a phone with a shorter battery life. ;)

I’m always amazed when I read about people who text hundreds of times per day! What in the world are they texting about, and how do they find time to do it?

That was my mother. She would never miss out on the opportunity to talk, except for a “wrong number” call.

I signed my wife up for tracfone’s unlimited talk for $20 a month