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RANT FOR MAY
As Bobby Boucher’s
dear sweet old mama would say, “Cell phones are the Devil.” I am so sick
of cell phones. I can see their value to parents by giving one to their kids
for emergencies or to keep in touch with (i.e. spying on) them. No more I
wasn’t near a phone and it was broken excuses. I can see how it can help
one in an emergency capacity: your house is flung forty miles into the desert
by a tornado and you need help, or your car runs out of gas on the turnpike.
Fine.
But do you really need to be in the grocery store on
the phone with your sister in law telling her you just picked up the milk
and you are heading to the checkout? Do you really need to talk to anyone
while you are driving? Its herd enough to believe that most people even have
driver’s licenses much less that they know how to use a car; but talk on
a phone while you are pretending to drive?!?!
Many states are outlawing the use of a handheld cell
phone in a car. Bravo to them! When will it happen in Pennsylvania? Probably
the same day those PA drivers are taught how to drive well than our neighbors
from New Jersey.
People in general are only vaguely aware of the life
that goes on around them. They barely notice that there are other people
doing other things when they walk, drive or sit on their porch. Ok, they
notice when you flip them off, but not when you hold a door for them or say
hello. People are growing more ignorant of simple common sense every day.
They have a cornucopia of distractions as it is without the cell phone. They
can’t get along with anyone, but do they need to not get along on a phone
anywhere they wish?
Kids of all ages have cell phones. They talk and instant
message more than adults. They need the added distractions as it keeps them
out of everyone else’s hair for the most part. But did you ever listen to
there pathetic conversations? Maybe they shouldn’t have the cell phones. Dumb
kids are making other kids dumber by talking to them on the phone constantly.
The worst thing, and most annoying to all around them
is the cell phone earpiece with mic attachment. This gives the user the freedom
of having their cell phone clipped to their pants with a line connecting the
phone to an earpiece. The line has a mini-microphone close to their throat.
This lets a person have a conversation with you and someone else without the
live person knowing to whom the user is speaking. This is the pinnacle of
ignorance in my book.
Another thing that is not quite as bad as the earpiece,
but come in a close second is those annoying walkie-talkie phones that have
a 15-mile radius. They should not be used for public use. Construction workers
or other businesses that require a range to work should have them. It would
help them a great deal. Your dad does not need one to let you know the football
score while you are standing in line a Wal-Mart.
And whatever happened to people being concerned about
brain cancer from the harmful rays emitted and collected by the cell phone
being held to your head too long?
