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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-01-17 09:45
So there you go - a happy ending.
Broadway couldn't have scripted it better ;-)
................Paul Aviles
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-01-17 12:28
I live in fear that something like Patron X's disaster might happen to me if I try to step up from my cell phone that doesn't do anything except make and recieve phone calls to one of those fancy new phones.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-01-17 12:47
Lelia -
There are problems even with plain cell phones. I have a $25 Verizon Mobile phone, which works fine. The only problem is that on the 5th of every month they update their (presumably mainframe-based) payment records at 3:00 a.m. and send me a confirmation message. The phone starts beeping and doesn't stop until I wake up to turn it off. Verizon can turn the message off, but the setting reverts after a couple of months, so I have a calendar reminder to turn the phone off before I go to bed on the 4th of each month.
To really mess things up, you need to do something simple on a computer.
Ken Shaw
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2012-01-17 12:51
Lelia Loban wrote:
> I live in fear that something like Patron X's disaster might
> happen to me if I try to step up from my cell phone that
> doesn't do anything except make and recieve phone calls to one
> of those fancy new phones.
>
Just leave the phone in the car before entering the concert hall. That way it doesn't matter whether you phone decides to turn itself back on or not. My personal feeling is that if you are going to have the phone turned off anyways then there is no reason to even have it with you.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2012-01-17 13:38
A while back I attended a concert featuring a female vocalist and a classical guitarist. The guitarist played the dramatic opening chords of a traditional Spanish piece, the singer opened her mouth to sing and the guitarist's phone played the opening notes of the march "Colonel Bogey". The whole auditorium fell about laughing and the mood was destroyed.
Tony F.
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2012-01-17 14:09
I wonder if the phone rang, playing Rhapsody In Blue, if they same response would have been the same?
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Author: BflatNH
Date: 2012-01-17 14:32
A church choir director, in the middle of a quiet section, received a text (he doesn't text) on a phone in his jacket. The ringtone was a rooster crow. He discovered texting.
Time to update those arrangements.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2012-01-17 20:58
At a band concert at the Reagan Library in California, the pleasant introduction to a vocal on "Over the Rainbow" was interrupted by a flute player's ring tones. How disturbing, but the band and the vocalist went on while the culprit shut off his phone.
It is nothing new to this person as he often disturbs rehearsals with his calls, demonstrating an unrepenting arrogance and rudeness. He is also late to every event, another facet of his life, which I do not understand.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-01-18 18:14
SteveG wrote,
>> Just leave the phone in the car before entering the concert hall. That way it doesn't matter whether you phone decides to turn itself back on or not. My personal feeling is that if you are going to have the phone turned off anyways then there is no reason to even have it with you.
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I've always trusted myself to turn the gizmo off (when my geriatric cell phone is turned off, it's really most sincerely dead), but your advice is excellent, and after reading these horror stories, I intend to follow it!
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: BflatNH
Date: 2012-01-23 12:04
Shown on morning news, this violinist's response to Nokia
< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RTNzyxNNm4 >
Post Edited (2012-01-23 12:04)
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Author: LJBraaten
Date: 2012-01-23 19:51
I share the opinion of some that the phone should be left in the car, or if there is an absolute emergency that entails waiting for a call then skip the concert (church, etc.). So perhaps I shouldn't open up this can of worms: if a phone has headphones plugged into it, with volume all the way down, would it make a sound, e.g., if the alarm turned the phone back on, would the alarm/notification/etc. only make a sound through the headphones? If yes, then this could be eliminated by cutting off the headphones, and securely plugging the plug into the jack (securely meaning having he phone stored in such a way that the plug would not fall our or wiggle loose). But even this could fail due to human or technological error, so it's not worth the risk. No matter how diligent we are, there could always be the first time when we *thought we secured the phone, but did not.
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