Well, you can take that two ways. One is to change the number, the other is to teach your daughter important skills like time management, how to run a business, and as a bonus she can pay for her own damn cell phone.

davidphogan: Well, you can take that two ways. One is to change the number, the other is to teach your daughter important skills like time management, how to run a business, and as a bonus she can pay for her own damn cell phone.

Customer lists can be pretty expensive. She got this one for free. Seems to me Bell World should charge her for the list./b

Chariset: You said yes, right?

shiat, you can sub out the job and still clear $20/hr.

I think we need to see a pic of the girl before we make a final judgement here

FTFA: "When Julian and Gillian Luke gave their 11-year-old daughter a cellphone for Christmas, they didn't expect Bell Mobility to give her a phone number that belonged to an escort service."

You don't say?!

Someone teach this columnist how to open a column.

a $200 phone with a 3-year contract for an 11-year-old?

yeah, I have zero sympathy for anything that happens after that.

MSOG???

But was she hot?

In these tough economic times wouldn't the average parent be happy that their kid fell ass backwards into such a high paying. low stress job.

TTIWWOP

/Oblig...
// Why yes, I will have a seat over there...

I wish there was a time machine so we could take young kids back even to the 80s and see how they coped with no cellphones or widespread internet or anything.

Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Yes, but I don't prorate, I don't do shoots, and I don't do that fetish shiat, go to Home Depot.

eh would be extremly amusing if it was the fathers cell but seeing its his daughters and has happened to me i find this not so funny. glad my daughter was 16 when it happened and she alerady knew what a penis was thanks to the gamers that play starcraft

OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

People: we have entered an era where kids are getting these things. It's standard issue. I think the time is long past in feigning outrage. Go grab a 6-pack and watch as society crumbles to the ground.

/also the reps are morons for not waiving the fee anyways on request

calbert: a $200 phone with a 3-year contract for an 11-year-old?

yeah, I have zero sympathy for anything that happens after that.

You probably think refrigerators are a luxury for the rich, right?

profplump: OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old use a cordless phone? I can understand a front-hall, corded phone, but a phone the can use in private?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old use a phone? I can understand postcards, but vocal conversation?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old write? I can understand reading the <religious text>, but writing without a scribe?

Who the hell lets a layman read <religious text>? I can understand teaching them the Latin call-and-response, but interpreting <deity's> word without a cleric?

/ Apparently we should all get off your lawn

Who the hell lets a serf go to a cleric? I can understand their master teaching them about the holiness of <deity>, but to go directly to a high holy place alone?

Then they changed it to 867 5309. Now she gets dozens of calls a day for someone named Jenny.

calbert: a $200 phone with a 3-year contract for an 11-year-old?

yeah, I have zero sympathy for anything that happens after that.

This. WTF is those guys' problems?

OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Get a grip - 8 years ago we got our 10 yo daughter a cell after she got on wrong bus and had trouble figuring out what do do next. Cell ph is the same as a life jacket on a boat from that point of view.

profplump: OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old use a cordless phone? I can understand a front-hall, corded phone, but a phone the can use in private?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old use a phone? I can understand postcards, but vocal conversation?

Who the hell lets an 11-year-old write? I can understand reading the <religious text>, but writing without a scribe?

Who the hell lets a layman read <religious text>? I can understand teaching them the Latin call-and-response, but interpreting <deity's> word without a cleric?

/ Apparently we should all get off your lawn

seriously.

the only reason why my parents did not give me a mobile phone before I was 17 was the cost factor. if mobile phones and plans were cheaper in the mid-90's I would have had one much earlier.

and yes, these days kids do need mobile phones. when was the last time you saw a working payphone?

seriously...WTF!!!

"We began to suspect something out of the ordinary when my wife answered a call one afternoon and was asked if she could 'do a half-hour.'"

You began to suspect that when?!?!

Gordon Bennett: Then they changed it to 867 5309. Now she gets dozens of calls a day for someone named Jenny.

Just leave a voicemail of "You don't know me but you make me so fappy."

calbert: a $200 phone with a 3-year contract for an 11-year-old?

yeah, I have zero sympathy for anything that happens after that.

Just because that is the value of the phone doesn't mean that's what they *paid* for the phone.

/it was probably free, or very near so with the new contract.

I work for ATT Mobility. I would've waived the fee for the number change, especially if they didn't have the number that long. The worst I could get would be a coaching about an invalid adjustment, and it would avoid an escalation (where they ask for a supervisor).

On the other hand, when I got my new number when I switched carriers before you could port numbers, for about two years I'd get calls every summer for people wanting me to help them with yard service. It happens with numbers.

The worst are the people who call up and wonder why their number shows the wrong name when they call people with Comcast or the like. Comcast doesn't update their caller ID database and there is nothing we can do about it, and yet they don't understand when I tell them again and again how caller ID works. Then they ask for a new number and you have to explain to them that we don't know if that new number is gonna work or not.

Erotic-Canada.com.
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OhioUGrad: I wish there was a time machine so we could take young kids back even to the 80s and see how they coped with no cellphones or widespread internet or anything.

Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Because the ones that only call 911 or are "specially made for kids" are more expensive than a regular cellphone that has more features. Why spend more money for less product?

powhound: OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

People: we have entered an era where kids are getting these things. It's standard issue. I think the time is long past in feigning outrage. Go grab a 6-pack and watch as society crumbles to the ground.

/also the reps are morons for not waiving the fee anyways on request

Yeah, tough titties kid. You don't get a phone or a facebook until you're 17-18. When I was a kid, if my folks wanted to track me down, they'd call whoever's house I was at and see who's house we went to or what woods/creeks we were in. If we were out in the woods or riding bikes, the parents would say "Hey Mike, you need to call your parents" whenever we got in. Instead its lazy parents and overentitled kids. Screw that mess. If I had a cell phone at 11, it'd have been soaked through or caked in mud within a week, as it should be.

Marcintosh: Erotic-Canada.com.
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You've never been goosed the right way.

adenosine: I work for ATT Mobility.

So you're really getting a kick out of some of these posts?

wow

mjjt: OhioUGrad: Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Get a grip - 8 years ago we got our 10 yo daughter a cell after she got on wrong bus and had trouble figuring out what do do next. Cell ph is the same as a life jacket on a boat from that point of view.

Was this a school bus or the city metro bus? Because if it was a school bus, I can't believe the bus driver was so poor as to just leave her to fend for herself. (I mean I *can*, I've had bad bus drivers growing up, but I'm still disgusted.)

Kids getting on the wrong bus is as common as finding gum wrappers after a middle school run. You calm the kiddo down, ask them where they need to go and get on the radio with dispatch. Sometimes you run them home yourself, otherwise you just take them back to their school.

/end threadjack

cuzsis: OhioUGrad: I wish there was a time machine so we could take young kids back even to the 80s and see how they coped with no cellphones or widespread internet or anything.

Who the hell buys an 11 year old a phone? I could understand one of those cellphones designed to only call 911...but a regular one with texting and everything?

Because the ones that only call 911 or are "specially made for kids" are more expensive than a regular cellphone that has more features. Why spend more money for less product?

That's retarded. Any dead cellphone can call 911.

HBK: That's retarded. Any dead cellphone can call 911.

Don't give him ideas. If a kid can't FourSquare Sandusky, they're safe.

Hmm, seems like an easy way to get a new number for free. Might try that as one phone on my plan keeps getting calls from the previous owner's creditors.

cuzsis:
Because the ones that only call 911 or are "specially made for kids" are more expensive than a regular cellphone that has more features. Why spend more money for less product?

Uh you do realize that any cell phone, current, old, even deactivated, as long as there's a charge, and a tower within range can diall 911 right? At least in most places in north america. So if it's just for emergencies go to a pawn shop and buy one for 10$

Why can't some people just accept that kids are being sexually active at a younger age and their daughter is a slut....

/window seat.

adenosine: I work for ATT Mobility. I would've waived the fee for the number change, especially if they didn't have the number that long. The worst I could get would be a coaching about an invalid adjustment, and it would avoid an escalation (where they ask for a supervisor).

You know that these people most likely didn't call and talk to the customer service people in a rational subdued way. Lesson number one about dealing with customer service reps, always stay calm and respectful. Once you start yelling at them they become defensive and won't even try to meet you halfway and you may get hung up on, and once you start cursing at them you will get hung up on and flagged. Good luck getting anything done once you are flagged.

Lith: cuzsis:
Because the ones that only call 911 or are "specially made for kids" are more expensive than a regular cellphone that has more features. Why spend more money for less product?

Uh you do realize that any cell phone, current, old, even deactivated, as long as there's a charge, and a tower within range can diall 911 right? At least in most places in north america. So if it's just for emergencies go to a pawn shop and buy one for 10$

Unfortunately most people don't know this, and phone companies are more than happy not to inform them of this.

ongbok: You know that these people most likely didn't call and talk to the customer service people in a rational subdued way. Lesson number one about dealing with customer service reps, always stay calm and respectful. Once you start yelling at them they become defensive and won't even try to meet you halfway and you may get hung up on, and once you start cursing at them you will get hung up on and flagged. Good luck getting anything done once you are flagged.

I've found this to be true with many companies, but with Verizon you pretty much seem to need to wake up a VP to get anything done.

And Ma Bell "wins" another award in the awful service department.

FunkOut: Lith: cuzsis:
Because the ones that only call 911 or are "specially made for kids" are more expensive than a regular cellphone that has more features. Why spend more money for less product?

Uh you do realize that any cell phone, current, old, even deactivated, as long as there's a charge, and a tower within range can diall 911 right? At least in most places in north america. So if it's just for emergencies go to a pawn shop and buy one for 10$

It's true. I used an old phone that was on no plan at all to call 911 in Canada.

How many households (or relatives) don't have an old cell phone lying around somewhere? At one time women's shelters and the like were taking donations to give to people who didn't have phones for this exact reason.