Woman killed in text messaging accident

KTAR.com ^ | 12/27/2009 | Elizabeth Shell

[arthurus]

My favorite scene is a group of young folks, probably a dozen and a half visiting the beach here and walking in a group. Every one of them had a cell phone stuck his ear. All were involved in animated electric conversation and oblivious to the people they were vixiting the beach with, unless they were talking to each other and just did not know how to do that without the cell phones.
I had a Net-10 cell once for one use in order to meet someone in a huge airport with only a few minutes time. I subsequently gave away the phone and the remaining minutes. When I am out of touch I want to be out of touch.

[Little Ray]

That’s probably more important since more women initiate divorce proceedings than men...

[fatnotlazy]

I caught all sorts of heck over my statements. Glad you seem to agree with me.

There is really nothing that anyone needs to tell me, or I need to tell anyone else that can’t wait until I get home or to some other land line phone. When I worked, I was on the phone much of the day, five days a week. When I left work, I really didn’t want to talk to anyone, by phone or even in person.

The one thing that bothers me is that pay phones are becoming scarce. The assumption is that everyone has a cell phone. Well, I don’t, and I resent the effort to force me to get one.