What if the babysitter needs to call you about an emergency? What if your son away at college is having a meltdown and really really needs to speak to you? What if the next door neighbor is calling to say your house is on fire? What if …………?
Some of us Only use our phones for necessary communication and know how to keep them tucked away until needed and how to science a call or ignore a text if it is interrupting a meal, and we don’t see the need for posting our every activity to instagram. But we will refuse to have our phones confiscated to a locked bag like we were children or idiots!
People got along fine before cell phones. Mine sits home 99% of the time. If it’s with me in the car it’s for music and stays in the car when I get out. I never take it to resteraunts, breweries etc. Doesn’t go with me on hikes or fishing, grocery stores, Home Depot or Lowe’s.
I’ve got kids, grandkids and other family and friends. I’ll check when I get back in the car or when I get home. If my house was on fire I’ll find out when I get home.
How did we even live prior to cell phones? We never had a phone so we could go out and know the babysitter could call right away.
Our homes even burned down when we went out. /s
I sat in a restaurant one afternoon where a woman about 50 took her mother out to eat. The woman sat there engrossed in that freaking phone and never said one word to that woman she was with. Not one word. It was sad to see.
They asked that the phones be put away, not turned off.
Everyone saying “people got along fine without cells” rarely say that about cars, computers, penicillin, electricity, or washing machines. That these comments are likely being typed out on a phone or laptop etc. is lost on some.
Every innovation that helps humanity results in a change, often for the better. But it’s a two-sided thing….Cellphones have sped up communication AND also given bad guys an advantage on robberies etc. To say “it can wait, we lived fine before cellphones” ignores that Bad Things have also accompanied the cellphone introduction.
The cell has enhanced society insofar as problems can be addressed quicker, stemming loss of property or treasure. Sure, there are downsides but anyone who says “nah, I’ll talk to junior later” and finds out he had a car accident will likely change their tune. Responding to that call or text quickly is simply keeping things pari passu.
The comments are funny. Let’s be Luddites and go back to no refrigerator. Gee, we were just fine dying early from spoiled food-borne disease.