Comments on: Do You Believe People When They Say They Didn’t Get Your Text/Call/Email?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:27:17 +0000

I wanted to comment on this yesterday but I didn’t have time once I got to work. anyone who says that this doesn’t happen has never lived in Wyoing, because here it is wide oopen spaces, lots of dead zones and problems with cell phones. they are’t dpendable here at all. I’m not saying that I have never used this excuse, because I have, but there are times when it has happened to me. And there are times when I get the message eventually, sometime a day or two later, after I have already talked to the person and told them that I didn’t get there message, which at the time I hadn’t. I had a friend call me from Denver and leave me a voicemail asking me to reserve him a hotel and I didn’t get the message until 7:45 the next morning! By then it was too late, he had already made it to where he was going and spent two hours looking for a room! And my old phone used to turn itself off everytime it tried to receive a txt message and then when I got it turned back on, the message was gone, so equipement malfunctions all the time. so I am completely with ya on this one Stan!

By: Heather B

Heather B — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:10:14 +0000

I live in an absolute dead zone out in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, when someone calls my cell, it won’t even tell me someone called. If they call a few times it may tell me. Wierdly, if they send me a text, it usually goes right through. My mom gets mad at me all the time for ‘not answering my phone’ when she calls. Usually, when she gives up, she sends me a text that says “call me”. If I miss calls when I am not home, my phone is on silent or (sadly) I am ignoring someones calls. Makes it easier when each person can have their own tone.

By: Tammy LaPlume

Tammy LaPlume — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:52:39 +0000

I do believe when people say they didn’t get my message/ text. I live up by the Canadian Border and we have mountains and valleys that have areas with no cell service. We have a lot dropped calls and missed messages. When you go through certain valleys there is no cell service and you don’t get notified that you missed a call. So it is possible in some rural remote ares of the country.

By: Stefani Ray

Stefani Ray — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:11:51 +0000

Get over it, what happened to peoples attitudes when we got all this high technology. It is great to have these conveniences, but that does not mean we are not busy when we are n’t tied to our little gadgets. yeeeesh

By: jason

jason — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:32:25 +0000

its possible to not get a text or a call depending on where you are, i’ve texted people or called and they never got it because it was in a bad service area or the oh so common in your pocket and it’s hit buttons, i know I’ve done it, and with the texting i’ve sat right beside someone who was with a different phone company and it took them almost a half hour to an hour to get my text, and that was sitting right beside them but when i texted someone with the same company that i was with they got the text the second i got the message sent screen

By: Lola

Lola — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:56:05 +0000

Do all the people that called in work for cellular companies??? You would think so because according to them this never happens and people are lying if they say it happened to them. What a load of bullshit.

By: Rhonnicles

Rhonnicles — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:21:09 +0000

I have this happen all the time, in fact some time back it was so bad here in my area that it would take up to half a day until I or my friends would recieve their txts, but then again I don’t exactly live in the USA, I live in a wonderful country in Central America named Belize. But the reason why these things happen is still the same and here they are, either 1 your phone went out of service or shut off at some point and did not reset itself, (fairly rare) 2 the tower went dead or just quit transmitting, (happens once in a while) or 3 the servers are overloaded, (MOST COMMON) this results in txt’s getting to the tower but since its overloaded it “forgets” about them, calls will appear to ring but will never connect with the other person.

By: Shannon Bishop

Shannon Bishop — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:56:40 +0000

There has been times when our “oh so lovely” wireless towers will go “dead”……. I have honestly missed calls / txts.. or they would show up a day or two later… or 3 of the same txt will show up.. HOWEVER, there have been a few occassions, where I would forget someone called/txt and I didn’t have the heart to tell them I simply forgot to get back to them. )

By: Danta

Danta — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:39:16 +0000

It happens sometimes but I can always tell when they are lieing.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:38:30 +0000

I’ve had this happened a couple of times. Sometimes my friends are unable to receive some text messages from me or somehow I get a voicemail but I never heard the phone ring. It happens.