Cellphone Rant
My Hell is a stadium of 20,000+ people in which everyone has a cell phone...Here's why. Say I'm walking down the street. Someone's cell phone happens to go offand thirty-five people all pat themselves down like they are on fire. To boot, the ring toneis nothing but an eardrum-shattering sonic boom of a cute, yet inaccurate version, of thelatest pop molasses released for the mindless sheep we call mainstream radio listeners, It seems that the world renowned pocket communicator has swept the world issuch a way that even children not a day over twelve feel the need to call their friends on acell phone that has been so lovingly bestowed upon them by their materialistic and quiteegotistical parents with morals that need to have a serious reality check. Who has themoney for 600,000 anytime, anywhere, free-night-and-weekend minutes to shell out on asixteen year old? Not I, yet there are some out there that suffer fromgotta-buy-a-cell-phone-cause-my-son/daughter-might-not-look-cool-enough syndrome.
Maybe it's because cell phones have become the trendy new item, like pants. I just can't see how telling your fellow Abercrombie-clone that "We'rewearing the exact same thing today!" is a valid use of the over-abundance of air timeawarded to the oh-so babied society of Mommy/Daddy's little princes and princesses thatcan ask for another race car even though the insurance is throwing them into bankruptcybecause they totaled the past three Mustangs by wrapping them around telephone polesand other road paraphernalia all because they had to find a phone number to call a friendwhile driving 75 in a school zone and neglecting the right turn they had to make. High-profile careers such as doctors and otherhealers that we have put too much reliance on need to be contacted when an emergencypresents itself. " Why is it so important that everyone have the ability to get in touch with anyoneat any given time whether they like it or not? I used to enjoy the phone tag played athome on a regular phone that didn't cause tumors the size of footballs to grow out of theside of my head. I feel that cell phones are an important toolwhen used properly and effectively. ckoning to annoy the not-so-innocent public with theinsatiable urge to raise our voices to that high level reserved for Jerry Springer guests andTelevangelists into the receiver your receptionless handset just so that the probablynonlistening party on the other end can hear all about the size, color, and frequency of thecontagious blue fungus on your teeth, or some other too-hot-for-TV topic. Not just have one, but have one smaller and with morebells and whistles than the person's handset sitting next to you with the Birkenstocks andAbercrombie shirt that shares a striking resemblance to everyone else's. Do me a favor and use the cell phone for what it was meant to be, an emergencydevice. Cell phones should come with a label on the side that says do not use whileoperating heavy machinery because I would rather not be run off the road by someonefailing to yield on the highway in their Ford Excursions, Lincoln Navigators, and othersingle-seater vehicles. Plus the over-stressed, underpaid teacher who hasn't taken the hyper-tensionmedicine they need to keep from exploding at the sound of every student's incessant "Idon't get it" and the ever-present "You didn't tell me about that" can hear Daddy's prideand joy (truck) on the phone just to take it up and file it under "G" for "God help us.
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