My cell phone burns my butt.

[Opsimath]

Are you saying the cell phone is getting hot? Or that your body is having some reaction to it?

It's a reaction. Not burning like from a source of high temps, but a weird achy, tingly, burning discomfort which goes away a little while after the phone is out of my pocket.

All in all I'm thinking that it is probably not a good thing.

And then there's the burning fingers on a touchscreen, but my sis gets that more than I do.

 

[Opsimath]

When you do accidental "butt calls".

Never done a butt call. Have you?

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

It's a reaction. Not burning like from a source of high temps, but a weird achy, tingly, burning discomfort which goes away a little while after the phone is out of my pocket.

All in all I'm thinking that it is probably not a good thing.

And then there's the burning fingers on a touchscreen, but my sis gets that more than I do.

Actually it sounds like the sciatic nerve is being compressed...whether from the pressure of the phone itself against your body or the waist band of your jeans or pants being pulled or tightened by the weight in your pocket against your back and/or hips.

 

[mushroom]

When I worked in telephone exchanges in the eighties, we had a tool call the Buttinski!

 

[Opsimath]

I remember the phone techs carrying something like that. They plugged them into the lines they were working on and could call the office to help with troubleshooting, I think.

I tend to be a repair tech's nightmare. I watch and ask questions, but in the case of telephones that's how I learned to run my own lines and switch wiring to make one line the primary ringer over the other (we had two lines), and how to check whether the problem was in the phone company lines or in ours but that was about as much as I learned.

That last one was handy because they kept telling me the static was in my line so I took my corded phone out to the box and called them. The rep could barely hear me for the static and again told me it was in my line. I told her I was plugged into the outside box and calling her from there standing behind my house. She didn't have anything to say about that. They sent a tech who found squirrels had chewed the lines on the pole.

 

[Guildedagain]

I remember a Century Tel - a nightmare phone co - tech telling us that it was "probably mice in the box somewhere" since the worst of the static was early morning and evening, he said "that's when the mouse leaves the nest, and then later comes back"...

A real animal expert that one.

I finally solved the problem by calling the Sheriff's office and telling them that no one here community wide could call 911, I think they lit a fire under the phone co's butt and the problem magically went away.

 

[adorshki]

Never done a butt call. Have you?

Just booty calls.

 

[adorshki]

Actually it sounds like the sciatic nerve is being compressed...whether from the pressure of the phone itself against your body or the waist band of your jeans or pants being pulled or tightened by the weight in your pocket against your back and/or hips.

My thought too or possibly a different nerve that just happens to be in the right place to ge compressed. Those symptoms definitely sound like a "pinched" or compressed nerve, which corrects itself when the irritation's removed.

@Opsimath : it did occur to me that there could eventually be some amount of nerve damage from repetition of the problem. I'd seriously consider looking for a better carrying alternative.

Dumpsters are looking mighty good but you might still be hoping to get some use uot of it. And it might make the dumpster radioactive. Bad for feral cats.

 

[Cougar]

Literally. I carry it around in my back pocket.....

I never could figure out how girls/women/ladies could carry their phones in their back pockets and not sit on the things.

 

[Opsimath]

I never could figure out how girls/women/ladies could carry their phones in their back pockets and not sit on the things.

I take it out before I sit, never sit on mine. I don't know about other people.

 

[Guildedagain]

Butt calls are are simple as putting your phone in your pocket, if it hasn't timed out yet. The heat is the tell tale sign.

 

[adorshki]

I take it out before I sit, never sit on mine. I don't know about other people.

I'd never let anybody else sit on my phone, if I had one.

 

[Opsimath]

I'd never let anybody else sit on my phone, if I had one.

Wise you are.

 

[tonepoet]

Literally. I carry it around in my back pocket and if I've had it there for a few hours my butt starts to hurt, but it stops after I take the phone out of my pocket.

My sister has it worse as touch screens make her fingers burn. I've only had that happen a cople of times.

I don't think these are good things.

My wife has a similar situation with her right upper thigh were the phone is in her pocket. The phone is not hot, her leg is hot and sometimes numb and tingly. She takes the phone out of her pocket and it goes away in a while. In her research, she thinks it's Meralgia Paresthetica. Some sort of nerve entrapment.

 

[tonepoet]

When I worked in telephone exchanges in the eighties, we had a tool call the Buttinski!

Back in the days before cell phones, when I was in the fire alarm technician biz, we used to take cheap phones that had push button dialing on the handset, cut the cord, throw the base away and solder alligator clips to the red and green wires. If we were alone inspecting something like an apartment complex with no access to a phone, we could open up the alarm monitoring panel, clip on to the phone line there and call the monitoring company using that line.

Phones like this that had cheap knockoffs that you could buy in places like Radio Shack. That was our homemade Lineman "butt phones".

 

[adorshki]

Back in the days before cell phones, when I was in the fire alarm technician biz, we used to take cheap phones that had push button dialing on the handset, cut the cord, throw the base away and solder alligator clips to the red and green wires. If we were alone inspecting something like an apartment complex with no access to a phone, we could open up the alarm monitoring panel, clip on to the phone line there and call the monitoring company using that line.

Phones like this that had cheap knockoffs that you could buy in places like Radio Shack. That was our homemade Lineman "butt phones".

My home phone looks just like that except it's bright red. Y'know, in case I need to call Moscow or something.


Cell phones put pay phones (remember those?) out of business.