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When the editor tells you to find a stock photo of a phone and you don’t ask which kind

OK. Updated November 21st, 2016

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To illustrate an article on why someone might not be texting you when they’ve said they would, some numpty chose to use a stock photo of a woman looking at a home phone.

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So, reason number one was presumably ‘It’s the wrong kind of phone.’

Source: I-AM-Canadian-Eh on Reddit

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