I wrote about the pros and cons of email yesterday...and come to think of it, cell phones ain't so great either! On one hand, they are cool, especially in emergencies. You can call anyone from anywhere...unless your roaming or out of your network or noon on Sunday and it's not 2:13am during the harvest moon... And how many times have you asked yourself, "what did we do without cell phones?"
Lived in peace and harmony, that's what we did! We could go somewhere and NOT be reached for once. And we would be ok with that. Today, if we forget our cell phone at home or elsewhere, our lives are over. It's as if we cut off our hand. OMG, what if someone is trying to call me?! we ask ourselves, as if the world will implode if we don't answer the phone when it rings. Or if the caller id says 'unknown' and they don't leave a message, it drives us nuts....we must know who called!! Or if we go to the movies or someplace where we turn it on silent, what's the first thing we do when we get out? Check our messages!! And speaking of messages...what's with the 10 minute greeting? First, we have to let the phone ring 4 times or more. Then voicemail picks up and there's your friend saying "hi, you've reached....please leave a message". But then, there's the recording that says "to leave a message, press one. To page the person or leave your number, press 5. When you are finished, press pound or simply hang up, or shove the phone thru your ear b/c this is the longest greeting ever and that's the only way to make it stop" (although you might experience a slight ringing in your ears...HA!)
But really folks, since when do we need instructions for how to leave a message? Whatever happened to...beeeeep? And on top of that, we need instructions for how to hang up once we are finished? Seriously unnecessary. And talk about a boring job...that poor woman who has to say the same thing over and over again every day...to leave a message, please press one...to leave a message, please press one... ;)
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We really need to work on you being able to express your opinion better. :0)~
Even worse... how about this new cell phone idea where your friends just start talking out your speaker before you even pick up the phone...
Am I the only one who sees embarassing meeting moments, or angry yelling from the guys cell phone who was just caught in an affair or something equally akward...?
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