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Pick one electronic device you could live without. What would it be?

Take my cell phone.  I can live without it.  Honest.

Posted - September 13, 2016

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  • 5451

    It's the Lane Departure Warning in new cars and trucks.  I can definitely live without it.  It goes off when the white line on the side of the road ends, it goes off when I go through intersections and it never shuts up in construction zones.  It's supposed to shut up when I have the turn signal on but it doesn't.

    Cars and trucks that have it have 10% more accidents.  I can't imagine why.

      September 13, 2016 12:53 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    Geez, I had not heard of that since I own an older car.  I thought GPS devices were annoying when you didn't follow their instructions to the letter.

    I can believe warning going off too often could be a hazard.

      September 13, 2016 12:59 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    I could live without all of them now, but I suppose I'd miss my PC the most.  I never fell for a 'smart' phone (a/k/a government leash) craze.  There's just something about fads that turn me off.

      September 13, 2016 1:49 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    My PC would be the very last device I would give up too.  It keeps me connected.  Unlike a cell phone, I don't feel as obligated to tend to it unless it's on my time.  There is something about cell phones that make some people think you should be answering their texts and calls at any hour.  People can't believe I leave home without it a lot of times when running simple errands.

      September 13, 2016 1:56 PM MDT
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  • I agree .....  "Cellphone"

      September 13, 2016 1:58 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    Definitely.  I wonder if I could take it to a shelter or something.  LOL

      September 13, 2016 2:00 PM MDT
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  • Any of them.

      September 13, 2016 2:02 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    Even your PC?  I would be lost without mine.

      September 13, 2016 2:04 PM MDT
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  • 3463

    Cell phone, I never use it anyway.

      September 13, 2016 2:09 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    Good answer, good answer.  I hate mine except when I am sitting in a doctor's office and want to go online and kill time.

      September 13, 2016 2:10 PM MDT
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  • 3463

    I would rather count the squares in the celling.

      September 13, 2016 3:08 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    Don't get me wrong. I have an industrial strength flip phone, but I don't text on it.  I can text from my PC if I have to using the mms. protocol, but I generally don't.  I also have a tablet on which I play games and visit sites I'd never wanna visit using my PC, but I could live without all of them--except the PC. :-)

      September 13, 2016 4:02 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    I've already done that using the camera on your cellphone.  You have eighty seven. :-)

      September 13, 2016 4:03 PM MDT
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  • 3375

      September 13, 2016 4:33 PM MDT
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  • 3463

    Thanks.

      September 13, 2016 4:41 PM MDT
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  • 17604

    My Dell laptop.  Take it.  I have two new ones still in boxes.  That Dell has been a jewel but the keys are beginning to fail.  I have worn it  slap out.  (Now that is a true Southern expression). 

      September 14, 2016 12:25 AM MDT
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