Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 07-13-19 06:51 <=-

After visiting a couple of hours I said I had best be on the road
and sort of stood there a minute, figuring I would be asked to
stay for dinner. He wished me well and returned to work.

Perhaps you should have hinted a bit broader that you could be
persuaded to stay longer....?

I sort of stood around a few minutes waiting for him to make the invitation then said I had best be on my way.
But I've known James for 40 years and he is some of an absent minded professor type. :)

Definitely should have hinted (or even stated) more broadly... <G>

Sounds like Karin was sorry not to have had the chance to see you,

I only met her once, shortly after they married and had returned
here to visit family. Hers are from somewhere in KY.

Doesn't mean she wouldn't have wanted to see you...

There seem to be quite a few "features" of that phone that I'd not at
all like to have

The oddest thing.
Thursday my captain texted and it notified me. I had done nothing
in the meantime.
I had been sent a text a week before, by another person, and
nothing. But being called to work a day, it lets me know...

It clearly has a mind of its own.... and apparently respects
authority... <G>

Oh, and it take a day before a text arrives and often get a undeliverable message when I send one.

How unhelpful.... the reason for having a phone being communication...

"How unhelpful" LOL Gotta remember that one.
I have checked phone numbers to make sure the undelivered ones was
the right number and they were.
And the text I mentioned I didn't get a notification, that one took
two days to be delivered!

Well, they are supposed to be tools, not arbiters.... Maybe the issue is
with whether or not the phone (receiving or sending) has sufficient
service... I've run into that here at the State Park campground we're
staying at this week... I have service at my cabin, but it's spotty or non-existent most other places here... My one sister doesn't have any
service at her cabin, so couldn't respond to my text to her.... Last
year when I was here, my phone didn't work at my cabin, but did, a
little, at the other campsites... I think I ended up borrowing someone
else's phone when I had to make a phone call, last year....

ttyl neb

... The Murphy Philosophy: Smile, tomorrow will be worse.

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