Having To Rely On Pagers Was A Nightmare

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Houston, Texas
Before cell phones pagers were the thing. I had to travel all around Harris County (Houston) wearing a pager. So I'm in my car and I get a page, now I have to find a phone. The person sending the page runs out of patience and leaves the phone to ring off the hook when I eventually get to a phone. Also I would get a page from the shop and again I search for a payphone and when I call someone in the shop answers the phone but has no idea who paged me. I can hear him holler "Anyone call XXX?" He tells me no one is claiming to have called. So what do I do? Drive there? Go elsewhere? The shops when it was a page from them was a real pain because there was no one person assigned to call me so when I responded they had to trace down the person. I pushed to have that made policy but I never got my way. Then there were the times when they would enter the wrong number so when I called it they said it was not them while the caller got mad that I was not returning the page call. Cell phones were an answer to prayer.
 
In 2001, my cell phone provider was Verizon. When I drove to work, I'd lose my signal just as I crossed the railroad tracks into town. No biggie, because I was at school teaching, and didn't need to call anyone. And then 9/11 happened. Roaming charges be damned. Called my daughter, called my husband who was in Houston at the time. I changed providers shortly after that.
 
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