Could You Live Without Your CellPhone?

by SpannerintheWorks 29 Replies latest jw friends

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  SpannerintheWorks

  I know I couldn't. I rely on it for business.

  Some reports say that they cause brain tumours...?

  They also save a lot of lives (indirectly, of course) by allowing the user to dial for emergency services when there isn't a payphone nearby.

  On my way to work today, during a three mile drive, I must have spotted about a dozen or so people using mobile phones:

  The mum pushing her baby

  The school girl.

  Bloke driving to work.

  Some guy sheltering from the rain under a tree...

  Mobile/Cell 'phones seem to be the way that communication is going.

  But are they replacing "one to one" communication?

  Could you live without your cellphone?

  Spanner

  Of the "needs cellphone or the kids would starve, class"

  Edited by - SpannerintheWorks on 15 November 2002 14:40:50
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  Englishman

  I'm pay as you go, I spend about a fiver each month.

  Englishman.
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  maxwell

  I suppose I could, but it would be difficult to go back to living without it. I don't use it for business at all. Just to stay in touch when I'm not at home. Also when I recently moved, the phone company took 2 weeks to get my land line turned on. So for two weeks all I had was my cell phone, which I hear is what many people purposely do now. But I wanted a land line so I could connect to the internet. Interestingly enough, even these days, there appears to be many people who have neither. I moved into an old building, but I would think anyone living here could get some type of phone. But I regularly see people coming down and using the pay phone in the lobby.
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  SpannerintheWorks

  I've just come back from a walk to the shops, and on the way there was a bloke outside a pub shouting blue (I think it was blue, anyway) murder into his mobile phone!

  The impression I got was that he went to the pub to get away from the sort of people who would give him ear ache!

  Kinda ironic, don't you think? (No allusions to Alanis Morrisette(sp), BTW).

  Spanner
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  jack2

  I don't carry one, but my wife and daughter do, and we've found them to be very necessary. Could we do without? I suppose, but especially with her participation in extra-cirricular sports, we have found the phones to be very useful, since practices sometimes run late of get cancelled, etc.
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  SpannerintheWorks

  OK E-man,

  I'm pay as you go, I spend about a fiver each month.

  I've got a fifty. What do I get for that?

  Spanner
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  Dutchie

  I absolutely could not live without my cell. I am on it night and day. I use an earpiece and a microphone to talk with it so that I don't have to hold it to my ear all the time. I know it sometimes appears that I am talking to myself from the strange looks I get from people around me.
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  Hmmm

  Could I live without it? I suppose, but I'd have to sell a kidney to pay for long distance through my local carrier. I put about 4500-4800 long distance minutes on my cell every month. (Earpieces are great.)

  Hmmm
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  blondie

  Yes, I do it every day as did people for the last 100 years and millions still do in many countries.

  Blondie
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  Elsewhere

  No! No! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't take my cell phone!!!!! NO! NO! NO! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!