Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[ColinJ]

What problem would an urgent message being delayed from 6am till 10am make for you? Unless they are close enough for you to dash round, what difference will it make?

There are times. For example, if I would be catching a train at 7am to go and meet someone, I would like to know if there was a change of plan.

At least when our dad died, my sister waited until about 8am to call me. She realised that phoning me at 3am to tell me straight away was pointless.

 

[mistyoptic]

That makes no sense, and should be illegal.

Why?

Say, for example, I need to contact a family member urgently. If I send a message when they are in “do not disturb” mode I am given the option to “notify anyway”.

Makes perfect sense

 

[lazybloke]

With iPhone, and presumably Android, you can override that if need be

That makes no sense, and should be illegal.

I hope you have to enable the override before people can do it.

On my phone, 'starred' contacts can ring me even if the thing is in Do Not Disturb. Handy for loved ones. (Also a care-line/emergency alarm button service for an in-law).


There's a further option that i can enable, so anyone can get through, but only if they ring twice in a short time.

 

[Alex321]

Why?

Say, for example, I need to contact a family member urgently. If I send a message when they are in “do not disturb” mode I am given the option to “notify anyway”.

Makes perfect sense

If somebody has set that, then you should have no right to override it, unless (as @lazybloke suggests) they have to enable override before you can do so.

 

[MontyVeda]

size comparisons.

...it covered an area the size of 200 football fields. That means nothing to me. They may as well say 400 million beer mats. What's wrong with square miles?

on the radio someone has just described one of the smaller shark species as being the length of a ruler. Now I'm sure the pedants were wondering if that length is comparable to Lizzie, Charlie, Eddie or George... but I'm no pedant and I do have several rulers ranging from 6" to a metre.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There are times. For example, if I would be catching a train at 7am to go and meet someone, I would like to know if there was a change of plan.

Then wouldn’t you be awake anyway and turn phone off silent / do not disturb to check before heading out?

 

[ColinJ]

Then wouldn’t you be awake anyway and turn phone off silent / do not disturb to check before heading out?

It wasn't a brilliant example, was it!

There definitely are unpredictable situations when I would want/need to be woken up to hear something ASAP. At other times, let me sleep!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It wasn't a brilliant example, was it!

There definitely are unpredictable situations when I would want/need to be woken up to hear something ASAP. At other times, let me sleep!

Besides I think in do not disturb you can fine tune, so don’t ping texts but do ring for calls from “important person”. If it’s important you ring as there’s no guarantee you received a text. Texts and email are not for important / urgent matters. As a follow up confirming details, maybe, but not as initial urgent contact.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

As for me, I have the phone on do not disturb whilst I sleep. There’s nothing so urgent I need waking. A sudden death of a close relative there’s nothing I can do overnight, and I’m better being rested if I need to travel. If someone close is on deaths door with days to live, then likely to have travelled over already and have phone in different mode.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Very few people use our landline - but in an emergency family know it is the best way to contact us

It is generally the only one upstairs
the mobiles are normally left downstairs overnight - unless I need mine as an alarm clock
I do find it annoying when I get a text or something at 3 a.m. telling me something I don;t even want to know about!

 

[Alex321]

Very few people use our landline - but in an emergency family know it is the best way to contact us

It is generally the only one upstairs
the mobiles are normally left downstairs overnight - unless I need mine as an alarm clock
I do find it annoying when I get a text or something at 3 a.m. telling me something I don;t even want to know about!

My mobile is always by my bedside overnight - but then I do use it as my main alarm clock, which means it is needed 5 days a week, and the oter two it is just part of my routine to plug it in to the charge cable by my bedside every night. I can't remember the last time I looked at it between plugging it in and the alarm going off though.
And I don't remember ever having a text or call overnight.

 

[Accy cyclist]

There I was at the local park entrance yesterday aft', when I looked at a parked up car and noticed the front passenger window was half open, with a couple of what liked like full shopping bags on the seat. I think the car belonged to a woman walking her dog in the park. Now if someone not too law abiding had spotted that, they might've nabbed the bags through that half open window. My gripe is that if that'd happened and the car's owner had claimed on her insurance and her insurers paid her out, then that just bumps up the annual payments for those who aren't so thick as to leave a car window open with 2 full bags on the seat, just asking to be nicked!!🧐

 

[MontyVeda]

As for me, I have the phone on do not disturb whilst I sleep. ...

I do something similar... by leaving the phone in a different room to the one i sleep in

 

[Mike_P]

The main use of my landline bar is to ring my mobile that I cannot find where in the house I have left it.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I have two mobiles - personal and work. Mainly I use one to phone the other when I forget where I put it.