we have become slaves to cell phones

Yes, you heard me right, we are living in a world of cell phone chaos !!!  Things have gotten out of hand and we need RULES…  all around us there are abuses happening every day. It seems like anywhere I am the sound of The William Tell Overture or the theme song from I Dream of Jeannie blasts out at me from, sometimes the strangest places, funerals, ladies rooms, my OB GYN’s office, my shrinks, my kids make up bag, the list goes on and on….. what drives otherwise fairly normal people to program their cell phones with the stupidest rings… I mean grown men playing the theme songs from Star Wars and BatMan and the women Kokomo and Keep Your Hands to Yourself…. whatever was wrong with the plain old ring? Then there are those, and in my house they know who they are, who have decided that instead of letting there phone have four or five normal rings before their voice mail picks up they have chosen a song, usually one that I cant stand play for what seems like eternity and then their voice comes on. Why, why, why, we all have enough unwanted stressful things that we have to put up with in our lives, cant we just have a break in this one area. I can only imagine if I programed something like ” The Wheels on the Bus go round and round,” (for anyone that doesn’t recognise this, its what every 3 to 5 year old sings what seems like all the time… ) that would, well, that would probably put an end to them calling me….

I remember the days when I was a teenager and there were no cell phones, for that matter in most houses there was usually only one or two house phones ( I like the way they call them Land Lines now, sounds sort of like something they use in the military,) anyway if our friends did call us we were lucky to get 10 minutes before my father would yell ” haven’t you been on the phone long enough, ( this, by the way was not a question ) say goodbye, somebody important might be trying to get through, besides you saw her (him) all day, didn’t you have enough time to gab ? So I’d hang up and 2 minutes later it would ring again and we would go through the previously mentioned procedure, until we and our friends gave up. Now, not having cell phones also made my life, and I’m sure many others quite  a bit more fun, and shall we say challenging to come up with some of the most unbelievable stories we could come up with. Put  it this way once we’re out of sight there was not usually an easy way to find us, which did leave lots of room for opportunity. See, now it just annoying, you say you are going to the store to get a few things, before you are barely out of the driveway the damn phone starts ringing, ( and if you are as safety minded as Iyou pull over ) so upon answering  the very important question of ” did you see my tennis shoes anywhere ? I need them right now..” Yep, first crisis over with. Then, as I walk around the grocery store I notice every other woman ( or so it seems ) Is talking while shopping, I kinda think alot of these people are just pretending to talk so everyone thinks they are so indispensable. I know this because I have pretended on occasion to talk on mine when I spot someone I don’t want to talk to, God, I don’t go there to socialize, I mean I am wearing dark glasses, a baseball hat , and old sweats and that should give people the idea that you don’t want to be seen…

Have you ever been in a bathroom stall when the person next to you is yakking on their phone. One time I thought the lady was talking to me so I started chatting back to her when I noticed she was not responding to me at all, then when I shut up she continued…. I felt like passing alot of gas at that very moment, wonder how she,d explain that to her “friend” Then, there was the time, only once , where I was on the phone at home and I just couldn’t wait, plus it was long distance, so I figured as long as I kept things relatively quiet it would be my little secret. This would have worked until I got distracted and flushed….

Now, people say it isn’t rude if you are talking say on a bus and everyone around you can hear every word you are saying, because, according to them, if you were talking to someone standing nest to you it is just the same. I disagree, when you are having a conversation with someone else in the same area as me I can eavesdrop on every word if I choose to, while, if you are talking on a cell phone I only get one side of the conversation which is not fair, I don’t even get a chance to ask questions….

I think more people should be like me who doesn’t need outside conversation- I just have internal conversations with myself…..

I especially think it’s a good idea to turn them off in church, your calling from the Lord wont be from Sprint.

I mean do I or you want to be connected to the world 24/7/365 ? The more you make yourself available the more available everyone will expect you to be. Lets think of our cell phones as a tool used mainly for emergencies. Like when you get a call from your daughters lawyer to announce the jury is returning. Gotta go,  I hear a text message….

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