Posted on 09/28/2006 9:24:21 AM PDT by tang0r
We switch off our cellphones during movies because to be distracted from the film would mean we are wasting the price of our ticket, so why do leave our cellphone on during our life? Surely real life is more important than a movie? But for most cellphone users, it isn't. The cellphone is a means of escaping reality, it is the Almighty TV game show host constantly asking you to "make a deal" with your time. If you don't like what you're doing right now, just wait a couple minutes and that glorious cellphone will ring, offering you another opportunity to do something else you don't want to do - just in a different location.
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I'd like to see a return of phone booths to restaurants.
They wouldn't even need to have phones in them; just a chair and door so that they could chat in private and not among the shared company at their table or near other diners.
Why not set a mini-tv on the table and watch as you eat, since that is what many people also do at home?
This is just ridiculous. If I'm doing something or going somewhere where I don't want to be disturbed, I shut the doggone thing off. If I'm in the middle of something else and it does go off, I can always choose to ignore it.
But the phone certainly is handy to have on me, especially for emergency situations or cases when I need to be reachable without being tied to a specific location.
In my experience, most people are embarrassed when their phones accidentally go off in places that are inappropriate. This articule proves there will always be people who cannot accept change.
Exactly. For every jerk who jammers on a cell phone at a restaurant, there are dozens of folks who have more time to spend with their friends and families because they're not having to hang around waiting for a truly important call.
Agree. I love being connected to my family no matter where I am.
In Sep 1998 I was at the Cape Cod Mall. At 3:00PM I had to call the garage to see if they'd completed the servicing. I picked up the pay phone and punched in the guy's number. At that point, I became aware of a very sweet odor, and an odd substance in my ear. Some DUer had placed a wad of fruit-flavored bubble gum on the earpiece of the phone. After cleaning myself up and confirming that my car was ready, I went right to Radio Shack and purchased my first (of many) cellphones. I've only used one pay phone since then.
It took a while, but I found out that I can leave my cell at home or in the car and get along just fine. It's finally become a true convenience instead of a millstone.
I'm living happily with my illegal jammer...
Cell phones certainly make things like, say, long-distance relationships tolerable :-)
I hate to think how many hundreds of dollars we'd have had to spend on long distance without the joys of free in-plan calling.
The worst place mine accidentally went off was at my brother's funeral. I thought I had put it on vibrate mode, but I messed it up. The funeral was in Texas, and I had left my husband and 3 kids at home in California. At least, everyone knew that I was away from my home.
What an awful time for me to set it wrong!
Oh, that's bad!
Can't argue with that! I can't imagine how our courting and engagment would have gone without cell phones with in-calling plans.
Oh, how I would love to have one of those. So far I've been too chicken to order one.
get a tracphone for 10 bucks a month
Cell Phones!
They can take your picture!
They can download and play music!
They have built in GPS devices!
They make your toast in the morning!
Damn well gotta do something, they're basically worthless for talking to people more than ten feet away!
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