Head-to-Head: The cellular disconnect
Users may be rude, but phones are here to stay
By Mark Edgcomb
IV Leader Staff
Cellular phones: it certainly looks like they are here to
stay. Cellular phones frighten me. Cellular phones might just be the death of
me. Walking down the halls here at IVCC I have been bumped into three and almost
a fourth time over the past couple of months of attending IVCC. Each time the
operator of the phone was just talking away like no tomorrow. Then BAM, they ran
right into my backside. I will survive; however, if these same people talk and
drive a car the same way they walk and talk, my time is limited on this planet.
Have people evolved to a point were we cannot live without
being in touch with every one we know no matter where we are? Don’t you just
love it when someone’s phone goes off when you are talking with them, and they
insult you by answering their phone, and start talking in a voice loud enough
that the other person probably can hear them without the phone? Of course, they
forget that you are standing right next to them and you might as well leave.
That is when I pull out my Cellular phone and call their phone. They stop
talking long enough to look at the tiny screen checking who is calling them, and
realize it is me the person they were talking with only seconds ago.
What is up with these new phones? Mine can hold a 1000 phone
numbers. I do not think I even know that many people, and definitely the number
of people I would want to call I can count on one hand.
Please understand me, I know how to call out and answer my
cellular phone. Nonetheless, there are things the salesperson told me this high
tech phone could do, yet I still need my daughter’s help finding them inside my
little flip phone. It has games and text messaging, and if I paid for the
service, I could surf the Internet. I passed on the camera phone I just cannot
imagine taking photos with a phone.
Certainly, cellular phones have a place in this ever
increasingly fast paced world.
Besides, I might just use it to order a pizza for one of my
classes this semester. It might help save someone’s life — like mine when I get
run over by one of those phone talking careless drivers.
Go to the other Head-to-Head: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them