r/Millennials • u/watermelon_fries Millennial • Aug 14 '26

Meme Always on silent

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u/Ethos_Logos Aug 14 '26

Nah fam, feel welcomed home. 

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u/chaos841 Aug 14 '26

I sometimes miss the days when the phone was attached to the wall with a cord.

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u/LeoDeLarge Aug 14 '26

Or at the very least waiting until 9pm for the “free minutes” on my sidekick

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u/chaos841 Aug 14 '26

I remember my first cell phone and I didn’t know they charged by the text. Next thing I knew I was staring at a $2000 bill. Thankfully the phone company took pity on me since I was 16 and didn’t know. Then they agreed to turn off the text feature so people couldn’t continue to text me nonstop.

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u/NOLAgold13 Aug 14 '26

Could you imagine a company doing that today?

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u/chaos841 Aug 14 '26

No. Today I would be in collection on that bill rather than thing reducing it to $100

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u/Apprehensive-Stop142 Aug 15 '26

Nah, they'd put you on a 36 month Klarna plan 😂

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u/Visual_Zucchini8490 Aug 14 '26

Something similar happened to me! Except I was maybe more of a bigger idiot.. our family went on a cruise and my brother and I didn’t even think about international roaming fees. (This would have been like 2005/2006) My brother and I were texting up a storm with friends back home. My mom got the bill the following month and yep, it was around the $2k mark. My mom called AT&T and basically was like “my kids are effing morons and didn’t think there would be additional charges while being in the middle of the effing ocean” and yeah, they greatly reduced the phone bill for us as well lol

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u/JJAsond Aug 15 '26

You had to pay to receive texts?