Yep, that about sums up my feeling on the matter. I have always hated cellphones. Sure, they make life easier in some instances, but they are such a pain. Always worried about charging them, leaving them on in movies (I hate that!) or church, where it is, whose number is in your address book, etc etc. Blech! Also, I always saw them as a sign of being a "preppy" and I definitely wanted to avoid that. Plus, when a rat ate 1 million pounds of nutrasweet, then talked on his cellphone for the rest of his life, he ended up getting cancer. So there's that danger. All that to say, I finally succumbed to the pressure and got a cellphone yesterday. With my job and being so busy all the time, and the fact that Lacey and I aren't married yet, so we're always having to coordinate our schedules on the run, it just became too much of a necessity to pass up. Anyway, when you see me using it, feel free to laugh. Or give me a call on it and do it over the phone:)
Posted by Josh Melton at February 19, 2004 10:41 AMYou may not like it now, but believe me, you will...except for those times when you don't want to be reached and people can find you anywhere...that's annoying, but overall, the cell is very convenient.
Posted by: Christin at February 19, 2004 11:11 AMDitto to what Christin said...just remember- it's your choice whether or not you answer it...so how do we get this elusive phone number? You want to email it to me? :)
Posted by: Sarah at February 19, 2004 11:29 AMI think it's funny that there are people out there still trying to resist the lure of the cell phone. My grandmother has one, for crying out loud. Just the act of having a cell phone has long since stopped being a status symbol.
Posted by: John at February 20, 2004 07:04 AMWelcome to America. Your life will never be the same.
Posted by: the booth at February 23, 2004 01:11 PMI remain cellphoneless and plan to stay that way.
Cell phones annoy me. Esp when you see some large bottomed blonde girl in her skimpy shorts and backless tanktop w/ lord knows what hanging out, and she's yacking away on her cell phone and trying to walk in those sort of shoes you could stomp a ferret to death w/..*shudder* I also don't really have a need for one. All the ppl I talk to are usualy w/in yelling distance. I mean I hardly ever even use a regular phone!!
i loathe cellphones.
i work for a cellphone company and i hate the shit out of cellphones.
i had a cellphone for like a year... to see what it was like... i also once smoked crack for the same reason. the crack was more enjoyable. did my year... the celly contract that is.. then bounced. and the people i deal with.. that act like their some kinna breathin machine.. made me hate them. because i dont want to be like them
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I will probably have to lease a cell phone soon, as I am going into private legal practice, and it's a matter of keeping up with Jones & Jones P.C. But GOD, I loathe them! After years of people trying to find the perfect stereo sound, I cannot understand why people now want to listen on something that has the accoustic properties of a Dixie cup with string. Not to mention the cutsie musical rings, that make my flesh crawl. 'Cause I know it's going to be followed by someome nearby yelling nonsense at the air, a pasttime once blessedly limited to schizophrenics in the park.
Posted by: Thomas Niksa at May 15, 2004 12:53 PMI still can't see the point of cellphones. I honestly can't. I run a global business in 11 countries without one. The only reason for a man owning a cellphone is saving money on a vasectomy. Shove a Nokia down your pants and have your testicles irradiated. And text messaging? What the hell is that? The equivalent would be, 'Hey, buy this Ford Focus, for $3,000,000.' Morse Code is only slightly less primitive, but not much more. Cameras on cellphones? Why? Can anyone actually make out what the heck the photos are of? Mr Niksa above has got it right: the human race is not progressing technologically, and the cellphone and the iPod are perfect examples of humanity's retrograde.
Posted by: Jack Yan at August 2, 2005 03:05 AM