Well she didn't realize that the plan set up was only for unlimited texts or internet so she told me I could do both. First month she got the bill and was like
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OUCH!!!
That reminds me, back in my early 20's, I had a landline telephone plan that would charge me per call if I went over a certain amount of calls per month. Usually, I never went over that amount, so no problem. But my then BFF got a new answering machine. She didn't know how, (or more likely didn't
want to change) the switch setting on the answering machine over from allowing for someone to leave only 15 second messages to longer messages. I had asked her several times to change the message length. And asked didn't other people have problems leaving a decent message too? She never answered that.
So, if I wanted to leave a reasonable length message of say, 1 minute, to include any details, meeting place, address, time & directions, I had to call 4 times. And that was just for "one" message.
If I called later in the day, I'd have to leave another 3-4 messages for another "full message." She used to say she'd arrive home and there'd be 11 messages on her machine, including the messages other people left.
At the end of a few months, I noticed that my phone bill was excessively high, by about $20 - $30.
I called the phone company and they said, "You made all these calls to this number. . . (my BFF's phone.")
I was so peeved that my BFF wouldn't change over her answering machine message length that I started leaving less messages.
Several months later, when we had a falling out for other stuff, she actually said one of the reasons for us ending was how I CHANGED, I used to leave so many messages for her, and then it went down.
So, basically, I was paying another $20 per month in phone bills, because it fed her ego to see so many phone messages listed on her machine. She
deliberately kept the answering machine setting to short messages.
And instead of simply ASKING me why I wasn't calling so much, she assumed our BFF friendship had changed. I wasn't into her anymore the way I used to be.
Oh, to be a young, 20-something with all those problems we had.
Very, very unlikely but maybe we should actually look forward to it. Historically the Church has flourished under adversity in a way it never does when we're all living in comfort and complacency. And biblically speaking, cultural dominance isn't the goal.
I completely agree with the bolded. However I don't feel like everybody needs to be included in everything - that's the opposite of diversity. We can all freely enjoy our own cultural distinctives without taking anything away from one another. Personally, I have no interest in being "included" in Eid or Diwali or anything else like it but I certainly am fine with my neighbours celebrating and wish them well. As I mentioned in a pp - our City Hall (and generally all levels of government) recognizes all major cultural/religious celebrations rather than just trying to homogenize them, and I think that's a much more common sentiment in Canada where "cultural mosaic" is our national identity.
If you mean Christmas, well, it's a Christian holiday and sacred time of year for Christians - and secular observances are entrenched in Western culture and accessible for anybody and everybody that wants to participate. If you mean some other thing then I guess I can't answer. 
I've already expressed my thoughts about diversity and inclusion in previous posts and am not touching the "church and state" thing with a 10ft. pole. Neither the United States or Canada are theocracies nor in danger of becoming so, and implying that is as absurd as the idea of a "war on Christmas".
We can't go there. I don't want you to get points.
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so he switched back to a flip phone (I think it was like the only model his carrier offered at that time that was a flip phone) and then upgraded to a smart phone again and has finally stuck with it. He uses a holster and everything. It's funny now because he used to talk about how we were on our phones a lot and now he's the one doing that though he hasn't gotten on social media really. His daughter, who worked with him at his insurance office, handles his FB page which is simply for a business aspect.
We also took a trip to Florida every year. At that time, there weren't toll roads in the south. Florida is full of them now. I despise them also, but it's nothing new.
that a family-friendly site like this would have soft-porn and "dates for hire" ads on it. 
He slunk away pretty quick when posters started explaining that he was the only one seeing them - and why. 
