Life before cell phones....

[SnoopDog]

....sometimes I wish I could go back to it.

All the fucking ringtones. All the beeping and ringing at the most inconvenient times. Can't people learn to turn it off or keep it quiet.

Speaking of ringtones, what about those ads? (here in germany ringtone-ads are polluting our tv-stations) Fucking annoying.

Then there's teenagers building up debts that they have trouble getting out of just because they 'need' the newest ringtone to be cool.

People who can't detach from work just because they have a cell phone that keeps them in contact withtheir co-workers 24/7.

Lovers quitting their relaionship via short-message.

And most of all the fact that whenever you shut yours off (yes, I do have one) for the afternoon, the next day people will have called the police because they thought you were dead or locked in some madman's cellar. ''Why didn't you answer your phone? Where have you been? What's wrong, wghy didn't you give us a call?'' I was driving, hello !!!

I mean, there used to be a time without those damn things and nobody complained that they couldn't contact you. Those were more peaceful times.

I mean, don't you just stop and think, ''If I'd throw my cellphone out of the window of this driving car, would my life really be worse ?''

Snoopy, end of rant.

 

[carsonshepherd]

But at the time I remember once as a teenager being stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire, and a flat spare.

I just turn my fucking ringer off and only about 3 people have my number

 

[Sherry Hawk]

But at the time I remember once as a teenager being stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire, and a flat spare.

I just turn my fucking ringer off and only about 3 people have my number

Yep.

The only people that have my cell number are family and very close friends.

I've been stranded on the side of the road way too many times to want to go back to life without my cell phone.

 

[minsue]

I have a cell phone. I keep it in my car, turned off. I have no idea what the number is and neither does anyone else.

Perfect.

 

[rgraham666]

Haven't gotten one yet. Don't think I ever will.

The worst I saw was back in August. I'm eating dinner on a patio. Friday night so that means dinner and several hours reading, smoking and drinking after words.

A couple, late twenties sits at the table next to me. Over the next hour and a half they talked, on their cell phones.

I think he was some movie executive, he spent the whole time cracking the whip on the crew at the other end of the city.

She spent the whole time talking to girlfriends.

When they left I wondered, "Why the fuck did they bother?"

 

[sweetnpetite]

Yep.

The only people that have my cell number are family and very close friends.

I've been stranded on the side of the road way too many times to want to go back to life without my cell phone.

You have no sense of adventure!

 

[hotchkiss]

Why do people have to shout on the bloody things when using them??

My wife bought me one on the excuse that I may need it while I was commuting around the M25 Carpark daily. It's like a bloody dogleash, it has to be on, I have to have it with me all thetime and god forbid I should turn it off.

No Privacy and no fun!!!!

H.K.

 

[Liar]

I refuse to acknowledge that I had a life before cell phones.

 

[TheEarl]

I like mine. It's good for meeting up with people; I'm chronically disorganised and so it's good for working out where other people are, where I am and how I can traverse from A to B. It's also good for keeping in touch with friends if I don't have time for an actual phone call - text messaging is a good way to have an all-day conversation that may only consist of 10 messages. It's like having convs with people on Lit - you leave them a message and then see what they've written later.

The Earl