Michael Blowhard has posted on his experience of finally yielding to getting a cellphone, and his experiences are an eerie parrallel to mine. Most young people seem to use them without effort, resistance, or inhibition, but we both have some trouble. Is it generational?
For instance: both of us were more or less convinced by our wives to get them because we no longer used the landline except for an answering service.
Both of us are uncomfortable with the sound quality of the cell as opposed to the landline-- I can't always tell if anyone is there-- and tend to save long rambling (rare) conversations for the non- mobile.
If either of us have to talk outside we find a doorway (Michael fears he looks like a bum pissing in a doorway).
We only give our number to our wives and in my case a VERY limited amount of friends, mostly without computers, who would otherwise never get us.
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If it is generational Steve, it goes at least one generation south of yours. I do have a cell phone, a model from 1997 (ie., it is actually the size of a phone) that stays in the truck glove box for emergencies and is used about that often. I refuse to carry one, and can't operate those of others when I have to.
When Shelly's phone rings at the charger, I bring it to her still ringing as if it were explosive. Her look says, "You're a moron."
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