backrubman

Oh dear, that is dreadful and a little beyond -- almost intentional -- no must have been intentional, bad policeman!

Exactly, so that is why I say your report is appreciated. Just the same, a nice guy like you who does offer the ladies a ride home will still take the risk of being questioned at the destination. Good for them to know it is happening though and also there is nothing to fear from it. In fact, I'm sure it's not an hour, right? In any event, if you provide them with the basic information they request after about 5 minutes you have every right to say, ok, have a nice night officer I'm out of here. If they want to question you anymore than that they best start telling you why :) Of course, anyone's address is private information. So your warning is a good one because it might keep someone similarly questioned from over reacting. I never fear the police and I think they can sense when someone does and it always makes it worse. So I'm driving along with an American friend and he is speeding (just a little) and we get stopped. So he gets out of the car with his hands over his head right away (but this is Canada), so I follow suit. Poor police officer was so confused he didn't know what to do, so he says, no, no, no I'm not going to shoot you, just wanted to ask you to slow down a bit. Didn't even ask to see his license but must have realized he was an American? :) We were back on our way very quickly. Yes, I have been stopped in the states and asked to exit the vehicle with my hands over my head and a gun pointed at me over nothing, quite unnerving.

For me it just makes the experience all that much the better if it is mutual enjoyment and it usually, no almost ALWAYS is (unless I am dog tired or have something else going on or the SP does, everyone has an off day). Either that or there are some dam fine actors out there :) And I'd feel bad if I didn't make the SP feel good. It's never ever just about me. I'd feel bad if it was. In fact, if an SP gets a little selfish we (well at least me but I'm sure I speak for others) are very pleased. Yeah, I'll even go so far as to admit the truth, makes me feel more like a man to know I got it just right. An encounter that is all about me, no, not anywhere as interesting or enjoyable, not even appealing.

I can't even imagine CERB without your words of wisdom and "just a rambling"s. But just how many mice do you wear out clicking on Submit Reply 7,000 times? :) Please keep it up RG! Your presence is much appreciated.

In my mind, DATO is an extremely personal activity (perhaps the most personal I can think of) generally reserved only for people I have genuine emotions for and of course they also have to enjoy it immensely. I suppose I could see doing this with an SP (if and only if) she expressed an interest and it was an ongoing regular "professional" relationship, I wouldn't rule it out but so far this has only occurred in non-SP relationships.

And much appreciated, although you really offer no actual information about the "place" nor should you ever :) So all we know is it that "somewhere" is under very visible (even in your face) surveillance. Your report is not unappreciated, I assure you. It it also nothing to worry about, the police are our friends.

Yeah, that's dark. I don't care if you do want to open up a can of whop ass, a little more politeness is called for, I say you are the one that needs a good spanking and some correction :)

From what I have heard, read and come to understand on the subject from my time as an RMT this varies a great deal with a wide range of male responses on a scale from almost nothing (no sensation) and not worth bothering with to total magic depending on the specific male. Oddly, some men who are at the magic end of the scale are blissfully unaware until it is tried. A great variance from one extreme to the other depending on the specific individual. In general, women seem more sensitive but there are exceptions to every everything and if you are a male only one way to find out where on the scale you reside if you don't already know.

Well RG, seems you have handle on it. Best thing I can say is if you "hate my [your] job" then ASAP is indicated. You will never be happier (although it does take a few months to realize you need not live on Kraft dinner and that you will be Ok once you make the leap). In fact it was a full year after I "quit" and then looked at my bank account balance and had the revelation "Holy cow, I have way more money than I ever had" before it sunk in that I had really made the right decision :) Of course all these decisions are highly personal and based on personal circumstances but GoC is poison, you and I both know that :) The SPs are very lucky, IMHO as they have no boss (other than themselves, we hope) and if they provide good service they can work when and how they want. The oldest SP I have met was 55 or so and still going VERY strong with loyal clients. Real job? Hell yeah!

I can relate as I did what few public servants would ever do, I Q-U-I-T. Even this was difficult and met with disbelief (my boss called me the next day to ask why I wasn't at work) -- like are you for real? I know I quit yesterday and then the oh my gosh what about your pension stuff, and then the appropriate response so what? So they sent me a letter and said well, we will stop your pay but we want to give you 6 months to reconsider :) After six months I wrote back and said thanks for the opportunity, bye bye. Best decision I ever made, I make more money in a typical day than they used to pay me in a month, other days nothing. I suspect that some successful SPs are much the same. Better to be your own boss... Do I actually have a job now? Some would say no, others would say yes, you employ people so you are the boss. I'm never quite sure but I'm not hurting financially and also able to be moral -- that's all that's important to me now. So I think SPs that enjoy their work and give value for the funds received are doing what they do best, same as me. Call it not a real job if you dare :) I say just don't fall into the trap of working 100% of the the time for another 2% of your pension. Life is too short for that.

Well being a former RMT myself I note that you have discovered my "secret sauce" which changed my life and has never let me down so I hope you get to enjoy it as much as I have :)

Seems to be met with mixed reviews: http://robulack.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/the-drawbacks-to-toktumiline2-in-canada/ Oddly the original cell phone standard allowed 2 numbers on the same cell phone by default, built in (NAM1 and NAM2) but at some point this was outlawed by the FCC and discontinued by the carriers in North America. More recently your phone number is tied to your SIM card and there are a few models of phones that allow 2 SIM cards to be installed but not both active at the same time and this seems to only be available in Europe now. I have my own phone system at home based on Asterisk with allows me to do all sorts of fancy things. When you call my house you get an auto attendant, "Press 1 for me, 2 for the wife" type of thing. I have it programmed to behave differently depending on the time of day and who is calling. If the number is recognized as being for me it starts off with no auto attendant and rings my office phone only. Important friends and associates are offered the opportunity to be transferred to my cell phone if I don't answer. All callers are intercepted after 10 PM to a special greeting, "We don't accept calls after 10 PM unless it is an emergency, if this is truly an urgent call press 1 now or 2 to leave a voice mail" :) Known telemarkerkers are redirected to a SIT tone recording, "Dah, Dahhh, Daaaaah - The number you have called is not in service." :) It sends me a text message (and who it is from) when I get a voice mail and also an email with the same info and the audio of the message. Basically if you can imagine it, you can do it with this kind if system and they are not that expensive. I would think it would be a good business opportunity to be setting this kind of thing up in major centers. I suppose an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system could even be set up for your regular clients that knows your schedule and takes bookings and then sends an Ical message to your phone (or uses the Google Calendar API) to enter the appointment in your calendar but we are getting a little too impersonal going to that extreme. One big advantage for me is DISA, so when I call in from my cell phone I can ask for dial tone and make a call to anywhere. Of course this number is on my FAV 5, so FAV 5 becomes FAV 5 billion.

What I do is I have a number of groups of contacts within Google Apps and I use two factor authentication to log into Google for extra security. When I want a contact in my phone I just drag it into the main MyContacts group and it magically "appears" on the phone, when I want it gone I drag it into another group that is not set to sync with the phone and it similarly disappears a few minutes later. Of course my Android is a Motorola which has BLUR which allows you to remotely locate, lock or wipe the phone. However, when it comes to ladies contact info I delete it completely unless it is truly a regular (and I know she wouldn't mind) and then I move it out of the phone when not needed. If I subsequently set up another appointment she will provide the contact info again which may have changed anyways.

Well we have never criminalized prostitution (ever) before in Canada and such a backwards step would be met with much resistance on many fronts. Fortunately I don't see this as a possible outcome. Many of the members of Parliament that would have to pass such legislation are clients too :)

Well I suppose it is possible these are different ladies that work for an agency? But when you notice something (like this) that appears not right, there is but one God who has the authority and ability to deal with this. Simply PM the details of your findings to the MOD who is the police, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer and parole board and parole officer :) His response is amazingly always appropriate and tempered, he has also seen it all and will be able to validate your findings and know just how to deal with it if that is indicated.

OMG! I'm so sorry to learn that some twit sees the need to harass you Cristy. Of course it is a real job. In fact it is often referred to as the "Worlds Oldest Profession" but aside from being professional I consider the ladies that take this job seriously to have a real vocation and provide a much needed service. I have much more respect for people that do your job than lots of others. Don't let anyone tell you different. If it helps, I've been told the same thing :)

It could be just a temporary failure with Yahoo and trying later might work but most people still fail to realize that the email header contents "from" and "reply-to" addresses in email (and even "to") are only comments (no different from the "subject" line) and can get be set to anything, correctly or incorrectly and have nothing to do with how the email is delivered. If it was a client legitimately attempting to contact you he may have set these values incorrectly. What ever your email address is, I can easily send you an email to: [email protected] (doesn't exist as far as I know) and from [email protected] (does exist) and have it arrive in your inbox. When you reply your reply will go back to the President of the United States (well is minions really). All that from, to and subject stuff in an email is strictly comments and has nothing to do with how the email is routed or delivered.

Yeah the originating number can't be trusted for both phone calls and text messages. It's easy set it to any number you want it to appear as. What really confuses non-technical people is that most smart phones will even match the number to your contact list and display your friend's picture (if added or harvested from elsewhere, e.g. facebook, twitter, etc.) when it didn't come from them at all (voice call or text). For non-technical folks there are services that make this easy for them also, here are some related specifically to text messages (but there are more for making voice calls): SMS Spoofing - http://www.smsspoofing.com SpoofCard (New for 2011) - http://www.spoofcard.com SpoofTexting - http://www.spooftexting.com Fake My Text - http://www.fakemytext.com The SMS Zone - http://www.thesmszone.com Can't always trust your eyes when it comes to caller id or text messages. I always think of this when SPs say no blocked calls, ok, so what number would you like me to call you from? :)

Support for this kind of setup is pretty poor in Windows XP. I'm not saying you will never make it work but Windows 7 does have better support for Bluetooth.

As another former RMT (in title and training only) I've had many similar experiences in my personal life over many years. As long as you don't renew your registration and call yourself a RMT you should have no trouble with their canon of ethics. Of course you were trainied just like I was on just how to avoid this happening and oddly by extension how to make it happen :) Certainly my RMT training changed my life forever.

Very wise to keep to whatever you are comfortable with. Of course you should really call it "safer" as opposed to "safe".

I have to agree with billybob on that one. There are lots of fine ladies that oddly have few or no recommendations. The absence of recommendations doesn't always tell the story especially here as as this is a question about a "girl on BP" -- she may not even be aware of CERB. Of course Cowboy Kenny's Diary is a great resource and also other sites similar to this one that allow negative reviews. That said, nothing like a positive recommendation and I admit to being lazy and not very adventurous or experimental in this regard but I will mention that I did visit a wonderful lady on the CERB DNR (Do Not Recommend) list before I knew she was on this list :)

Wise. I had that trouble, and it's not just contacts, it's like your recent call history (both incoming and outgoing) as well as email addresses that are not in your contacts (maybe they sent you an email) and then when you run the dam mobile Face Book app it pries into your life in a most invasive way. In fact if the movie (The Social Network) is at all accurate, well lets just say it portrays Mark Zuckerberg of Face Book as having no concern for privacy and a complete and total thief. Gmail definitely does that, it syncs everything, so even if you send an email from your computer it shows up in the sent items on the phone. It's also cool in that I have a rule under Gmail when I get new email from CERB to tag as it something other than INBOX so no candice on the phone of incoming email (except in the case if a PM) :) One thing you might really like is the under used feature of "profiles". By default mine came with 3, "Work", "Home" and "Weekend". When you switch profiles it's like having 3 phones in one, everything is setup as it is under that profile, placement of icons, wallpaper, everything changes and the phone is a different phone. Great if someone wants to borrow it to make a call as the sexy wall paper is no more and then it's back when you want it. Lots of you tube videos that are Android tutorials, well worth the time to learn about it well and leverage all the features. Thanks for the feedback RG.

I used to work with a company (still do on occasion) that had a lot of BlackBerry's and find they are no more or less durable than any other phone. Any smartphone without a protective case (like the OtterBox, available for most makes and models) is subject to this kind of damage from any drop but sometimes you do get away with it, unfortunately this time you didn't. The new Motorola RAZR is made of Kevlar and suppose to be extra tough but Gorilla glass is so hard (to be scratch resistant) that it will break on impact if it hits the right way. I say pick what suits your fancy and get the appropriate OtterBox for that model. That said, I pay a small fee each month for an extended service plan that covers everything. I was careful to read the fine print, apparently I can drop it in the pool, run over it with my car or even just loose it (including theft) and they will replace the phone up to 3 times. More important to me was I would get an immediate loaner (programmed with the same number) if they didn't have stock to replace the phone the same day.

Oh we are on the same page RG! From my somewhat limited experiences with those ladies that do the jet set international travel companion thing, they will go on such an excursion with someone they don't really know (much like they will meet RG for or BackRubMan for the first time) as international travel is a lucrative and generally rare opportunity but they will take precautions (normal client screening procedures still apply) and insist on a minimum of an initial meeting first and also smartly insist that everything must be prepaid before departure (including their return airfare) and that they remain independent enough of the client at all times so they can return home at any time without his consent or assistance. I'm sure if the client didn't treat them with the respect they deserve they would be on the next flight out of there or at any time they felt it was the appropriate thing to do and rightly so, just like they have the right to leave at anytime during a normal couple of hour appointment if it becomes necessary and prudent to do so. A surprising number of ladies do offer this on their web sites (usually called "Fantasy girlfriend", priced by the week) often at what seems pretty high rates (but then you need to consider that while she is out of town or abroad with you she is not home taking any other appointments) and as gentlemen we never negotiate a rate, we simply pay any quoted rate. As long as everything is set up to ensure she remains independent and remains only because she wants to, everything is cool. What troubles me about the OPs post is that it is illegal for him to arrange companions for anyone other than himself, (212(1)(g) perhaps why MOD suspended him) and as Angela of Ottawa said and others alluded to it seems just to be a case of big spender syndrome, likely he isn't (never was) serious so my spidey sense tells me we are starting to fall victim to a troll :) If it was one guy and four ladies and he had anything up his sleeve, they would band together and ensure he got what he deserved :)