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Here's why. Say I'm walking down the street. Someone's cell phone happens to go off
and thirty-five people all pat themselves down like they are on fire. To boot, the ring tone
is nothing but an eardrum-shattering sonic boom of a cute, yet inaccurate version, of the
latest pop molasses released for the mindless sheep we call mainstream radio listeners,
It seems that the world renowned pocket communicator has swept the world is
such a way that even children not a day over twelve feel the need to call their friends on a
cell phone that has been so lovingly bestowed upon them by their materialistic and quite
egotistical parents with morals that need to have a serious reality check. Who has the
money for 600,000 anytime, anywhere, free-night-and-weekend minutes to shell out on a
sixteen year old? Not I, yet there are some out there that suffer from
gotta-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're
wearing the exact same thing today!" is a valid use of the over-abundance of air time
awarded to the oh-so babied society of Mommy/Daddy's little princes and princesses that
can ask for another race car even though the insurance is throwing them into bankruptcy
because they totaled the past three Mustangs by wrapping them around telephone poles
and other road paraphernalia all because they had to find a phone number to call a friend
while driving 75 in a school zone and neglecting the right turn they had to make. High-profile careers such as doctors and other
healers that we have put too much reliance on need to be contacted when an emergency
presents itself. "
Why is it so important that everyone have the ability to get in touch with anyone
at any given time whether they like it or not? I used to enjoy the phone tag played at
home on a regular phone that didn't cause tumors the size of footballs to grow out of the
side of my head. I feel that cell phones are an important tool
when used properly and effectively. ckoning to annoy the not-so-innocent public with the
insatiable urge to raise our voices to that high level reserved for Jerry Springer guests and
Televangelists into the receiver your receptionless handset just so that the probably
nonlistening party on the other end can hear all about the size, color, and frequency of the
contagious blue fungus on your teeth, or some other too-hot-for-TV topic. Not just have one, but have one smaller and with more
bells and whistles than the person’s handset sitting next to you with the Birkenstocks and
Abercrombie 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 emergency
device.
Cell phones should come with a label on the side that says do not use while
operating heavy machinery because I would rather not be run off the road by someone
failing to yield on the highway in their Ford Excursions, Lincoln Navigators, and other
single-seater vehicles. Plus the over-stressed, underpaid teacher who hasn't taken the hyper-tension
medicine they need to keep from exploding at the sound of every student's incessant "I
don't get it" and the ever-present "You didn't tell me about that" can hear Daddy's pride
and joy (truck) on the phone just to take it up and file it under "G" for "God help us.
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