# Beck is having a bad, bad, bad telephone experience.(actual talking) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579 "2020-04-11T21:39:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/1 "2020-04-11T21:39:28Z")
I live in a place that has never has land lines run through (or anything else really). We’ve had cel service as long as we’ve lived here. Started off pretty bad, got better over the years. Never for voice calls, though. Texting worked pretty good. I tried to convince Verizon to put a tower up on the place. They never got back to me on that. Hmm? :dubious: Then we got Hughes net internet. Emailing and messaging was very good. We felt part of big ol’ world for once. And…lucky you…I found the SDMB. 😃 Something has changed. All of a sudden I can make voice calls w/o climbing a tree. (Really, I did that, not even kidding). I’m astounded. It’s been many years since I’ve talked to someone on my phone from inside the house. I called my doctor and actually held the call. No dropped call. Called my Sis in Texas and she thought I was driving somewhere or up a tree. She told my other sibs. Jeez. My phone won’t quit ringing. Problem #1- maybe I don’t really wanna talk to these people so much :smack: I feel like the an old west town when the railroad came through. I’m feeling more urban by the minute. I’m just an average city gal now. Let’s order in pizza. Problem #2- ain’t no one delivering all the way out here. There’s one thing I have. Unlimited talk and text. The ‘talk’ part of that never interested me. Til now. Y’all can just post your phone\* numbers and I’ll put you on my call schedule. :D. 6:35 pm is already taken, so sorry. Problem #3- telemarketers can’t be ignored as easily now that my ringer is turned on. Gah!!?! :smack: (\*don’t really post your number) Dang it. Another typo in my thread title! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/2 "2020-04-11T22:39:57Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Dang it. Another typo in my thread title! That’s okay. Do it again. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/3 "2020-04-11T23:13:27Z")
Sounds like a infrastructure upgrade. Perhaps a booster amplifier or something similar. A new cell tower would make a big improvement. More people are working from home ànd maybe a service upgrade became more urgent? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/4 "2020-04-11T23:31:04Z")
\*\*Acey-\*\*that’s kinda what we thought. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/5 "2020-04-12T00:05:03Z")
Hooray for honest-to-god phone service! ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/6 "2020-04-12T00:30:43Z")
> [@](#): > > she thought I was driving somewhere or up a tree. There’s a line you don’t see every day. This should be good for the medical stuff, too, right? Like if (God forbid) you needed to call 911, you could? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/7 "2020-04-12T00:33:58Z")
It’s really nice. DIL is tickled about it. God, I’m actually gonna have to form intelligent speech every time she calls. The lil’wrekker is very pleased about it. As we’re stuck here. She can talk to her girl friends. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/8 "2020-04-12T02:15:56Z")
DIL took her girls home as soon as it got dark. Guess who just called me from her bed? Man oh, man! Why did I give the Grandwrek my phone number? She read me a chapter from a Junie B Jones book. Oh joy! I heard hollering and she hung up. That girl! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/9 "2020-04-12T02:16:18Z")
I almost called you, but I remembered that I hate talking on the phone and already made a phone call this week. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/10 "2020-04-12T02:21:49Z")
You could read a chapter to me. That’s always a laugh. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/11 "2020-04-12T02:44:51Z")
a chapter of what? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/12 "2020-04-12T02:55:53Z")
How about a song parody of Adele’s song Hello? Beck’s phone call,. – Coronavirus Life imagine a sorrowful piano Hello, It’s Me I’m in California dreaming about going out to eat Just a burger, with cheese Or a shaken Marguerite, baby back ribs from Chili’s Hello-o-o Can you hear me? I’m Shouting out to neighbors who I used to like to see When We Were Outside and Free Is there something else to watch Besides the News and Finding Dory? There’s social distance between us. And I’m freaking out! Hello from the inside!! It’s just me and myself and I And a Stay home order that’s breaking my heart It just gets funnier and funnier in the other verses. > **[This Adele Parody About Being Stuck Inside Is So Cathartic](https://funnyordie.com/2020/4/01/this-adele-parody-about-being-stuck-inside-is-so-cathartic/)** > > HELLO FROM THE INSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/13 "2020-04-12T03:04:44Z")
Y’all so funny. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/14 "2020-04-12T03:28:41Z")
Oh, you’re gonna have fun with spam calls (telemarketers) let me just tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/15 "2020-04-12T03:44:37Z")
Out of my Brain on the 6:35! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/16 "2020-04-12T17:56:31Z")
da Who? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/17 "2020-04-13T02:57:40Z")
Well, wouldn’t you know it? My power is out\*. Just as soon as one things working okay, the universe smacks me and something else goes wrong. Big Wrek turned the generator on. But, no fun stuff. Just fridges and freezers. Mustn’t have warm beer. :smack: \*weather ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/18 "2020-04-13T04:00:26Z")
But the train ran on time. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/19 "2020-04-14T03:03:38Z")
-----beck hanging on to a thread of sanity----- Bad storm. No power anywhere. Lots of folks in my house. They all want to charge phones and laptops…let me count: 4 laptops and 8 cel phones. Not counting my iPad or the kids nabys. The generator and welding machine are powering lights, the well pump and freezers and fridge. My car has the only hotspot. Everyone wants it. I’ve made a schedule so we can take turns. This is my turn. :smack: Send help!! I’m dying here. b. on the verge. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579/20 "2020-04-14T03:11:25Z")
Sending lots of good vibes for a quick power restoration, Beck. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beck-is-having-a-bad-bad-bad-telephone-experience-actual-talking/851579.md?page=2)