Can I use your phone?

[abcdefz]

It just seems weird to me that a stranger would ask to use someone else's phone. Is it just me?

[Freebasser]

That's because they want to steal it.

[Guy Incognito]

or a so cheapskate they dont want to use their own. Thing is, i'd be wary of anyone asking for an "emergency" which i feel bad about but the more convoluted the story the more likely it is they are going to nick it

[abcdefz]

There's that, but this even happens on the light rail where there's really nowhere to run...

[Dorothy Wood]

I almost had to ask to use somebody's phone a couple weeks ago when I locked myself out of my new apartment the first night I spent there alone. :(

It was around 2 a.m. and I was in my pajamas, so I just slept on the porch, then got up with the sun. I luckily had some quarters in a drawer of stuff that I hadn't put inside yet, so I grabbed those and walked to my old apartment and broke in fairly easily (new tenants hadn't moved in yet). I had some bags of clothes meant for goodwill in there, so I fashioned an outfit out of old crap and set out to search for a pay phone.

Well, pay phones aren't so easy to come by anymore, so I considered asking a stranger at a bus stop to use his/her phone. But then I remembered that there are still usually pay phones at gas stations. So I did that instead. Got a hold of the only person whose phone number I know (scary! I need to start memorizing some others...stupid cell phones), she looked up my landlady and found her number, got a hold of her and hopped on the train to meet her at her condo to get another set of keys. Got back home safe and sound! hooray!


so, yup, those people probably just locked themselves out.

[b i o n i c]

pay phones are disappearing, whatta brotha sposed to do?

[b i o n i c]

as she was eating an ice cream cone a on the strett kid axed my ex gf,

"yo lady, i could lick dat?", i seriously think he was trying to hit on her, but she thought he really wanted a lick of her ice cream

[Guy Incognito]

There's that, but this even happens on the light rail where there's really nowhere to run...

unless they do it right as the train stops and bugger off thru the doors.

[jabumbo]

i worked with a guy who always asked to use my phone for his booty calls


i just gave him the job phone. if he wasn't such an old guy, i'd have called her myself.

[MC Moot]

No you may not...I will however call 911 or a cab for you as the situation requires...

[Guy Incognito]

i worked with a guy who always asked to use my phone for his booty calls


i just gave him the job phone. if he wasn't such an old guy, i'd have called her myself.

but if she didnt recognise the number then she might not pick up and he wouldnt get any.

Plus just because he's old doesnt mean she was.

[Lex Diamonds]

No you may not...I will however call 911 or a cab for you as the situation requires...
Wow, you really are a genuine social retard.

My phone died a few weeks ago when I was going to a friend's in a sketchy part of Bristol. I stopped in a pub, turned out to be the kind of place everybody stops talking and stares at the door if a stranger walks in. I spoke to the barmaids about my predicament and they reluctantly let me use their phone, thinking I was up to something. Not wanting to look like a chump, I got a half pint and sat on a stool at the bar chatting to them while I chained various numbers together to contact my friend. By the time I left they were being warm and friendly, and I was really grateful to them.

The moral of the story is, people should help each other out. When it boils down, we're all just animals trying to get somewhere. Don't be a dick about doing tiny favours for your fellow man.

[MC Moot]

Wow, you really are a genuine social retard..


Sociable retard... (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs338.snc3/29519_1418928521564_1483177562_31076172_3509217_n. jpg)

[Lex Diamonds]

What relevance does that picture have to anything? Why you linking pictures of me? You're creepy as fuck, bruh.

[Guy Incognito]

Wow, you really are a genuine social retard.

My phone died a few weeks ago when I was going to a friend's in a sketchy part of Bristol. I stopped in a pub, turned out to be the kind of place everybody stops talking and stares at the door if a stranger walks in. I spoke to the barmaids about my predicament and they reluctantly let me use their phone, thinking I was up to something. Not wanting to look like a chump, I got a half pint and sat on a stool at the bar chatting to them while I chained various numbers together to contact my friend. By the time I left they were being warm and friendly, and I was really grateful to them.

The moral of the story is, people should help each other out. When it boils down, we're all just animals trying to get somewhere. Don't be a dick about doing tiny favours for your fellow man.

half a pint? you big girl

[Bob]

I almost had to ask to use somebody's phone a couple weeks ago when I locked myself out of my new apartment the first night I spent there alone. :(

It was around 2 a.m. and I was in my pajamas, so I just slept on the porch, then got up with the sun. I luckily had some quarters in a drawer of stuff that I hadn't put inside yet, so I grabbed those and walked to my old apartment and broke in fairly easily (new tenants hadn't moved in yet). I had some bags of clothes meant for goodwill in there, so I fashioned an outfit out of old crap and set out to search for a pay phone.

Well, pay phones aren't so easy to come by anymore, so I considered asking a stranger at a bus stop to use his/her phone. But then I remembered that there are still usually pay phones at gas stations. So I did that instead. Got a hold of the only person whose phone number I know (scary! I need to start memorizing some others...stupid cell phones), she looked up my landlady and found her number, got a hold of her and hopped on the train to meet her at her condo to get another set of keys. Got back home safe and sound! hooray!


so, yup, those people probably just locked themselves out.

one time i was on the other end of that - my neighbor locked herself out of her apartment so she rang my doorbell and asked to use my phone. she was kind of hot as i recall i probably should have hit on her but i didn't oh well

[abcdefz]

An emergency makes sense, though. There's some urgency. At least there's a story behind it. I always help out in an emergency if I can.

I'm thinking more of the casual, "Hey, can I use your phone?" thing when there's just an expectation that everyone carries phones for strangers' use. It seems invasive and presumptuous.

My reply was just, "Sorry, I don't let people use my phone" and the guy gave me this look. Well, sorry buddy.

The lady today on the train got a phone from another lady, and the call was just, "Hey honey. I'm on the train. Be there in fifteen minutes." Not like she was arranging anything, just confirming it.

I dunno. A sense of self-entitlement just bugs me. But I guess it's none of my business.

[Dorothy Wood]

hmm, I guess I've never had anyone ask to use my phone...didn't realize it was so common!

[MC Moot]

What relevance does that picture have to anything? Why you linking pictures of me? You're creepy as fuck, bruh.

Come on Paddy!... It’s self explanatory, poseur... (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs347.ash1/29519_1418944521964_1483177562_31076254_3544207_n. jpg)

[Lex Diamonds]

No it's not. Please explain why you feel the need to keep looking at pictures of me you socially stunted recluse.

[MC Moot]

An emergency makes sense, though. There's some urgency. At least there's a story behind it. I always help out in an emergency if I can.

I'm thinking more of the casual, "Hey, can I use your phone?" thing when there's just an expectation that everyone carries phones for strangers' use. It seems invasive and presumptuous.

My reply was just, "Sorry, I don't let people use my phone" and the guy gave me this look. Well, sorry buddy.

The lady today on the train got a phone from another lady, and the call was just, "Hey honey. I'm on the train. Be there in fifteen minutes." Not like she was arranging anything, just confirming it.

I dunno. A sense of self-entitlement just bugs me. But I guess it's none of my business.



amen!

(y)

[Lex Diamonds]

half a pint? you big girl
I'm not spending £3+ on a phone call! Don't worry it's the only time I've ever ordered a half.

[MC Moot]

No it's not. Please explain why you feel the need to keep looking at pictures of me you socially stunted recluse.

recluse?...geez...well then,cause they sum up your stupidity really quite well,that's all..."sociable retard"...figure it out and keep on frontin,"bruh"...(y)

[Lex Diamonds]

They don't sum up anything, they're pictures from a BBQ where everyone was fucking around and taking pictures. Stop being a total retard and answer the question: What the fuck have pictures of me (or even my "stupidity") got to do with your weird inability to offer help to those in need?

[camo]

Hey Padster stop being such a (http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4200/4255/printing-press_1_lg.gif) !

[MC Moot]

They don't sum up anything, they're pictures from a BBQ where everyone was fucking around and taking pictures. Stop being a total retard and answer the question: What the fuck have pictures of me (or even my "stupidity") got to do with your weird inability to offer help to those in need?

give over now...you indicated I was a "social retard" and I retorted that you were a "sociable retard" ergo the picture of you displaying said behavior...I think it’s pretty reasonable not to hand my phone over to a stranger…like I said I’ll make the call for you if ya need a hand…and for the record I hate my phone…

[Lex Diamonds]

So... what exactly is a sociable retard again? I'm really not following this at all, you're pretty strange.

[MC Moot]

So... what exactly is a sociable retard again? I'm really not following this at all, you're pretty strange.

well...I'd say a fair definition is someone who poses for photos of themself smoking a poorly rolled blunt...:rolleyes:

[Lex Diamonds]

Cool, not me then.