unless the network was overloaded with no spare capacity.If the girl was ill, surely a mobile could call 999 or 112, even with no sim, it was a data failure, mobiles still worked.
Or texting/phoning & drivingAlthough probably those saved is probably offset by the number killed taking selfies.
me and my girlfriend (now my wife),
I have no idea. Mobiles just came out as I became an adult.
And phone numbers just had 4 digits. Ours was 4541.I can remember the GPO dial phones -my parents had a 2 tone green one.