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  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.

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