A quick survey

[mankiller]

On my monthly trek to North Campus, invariably to yell at some wing of the administration, I decided to do an informal survey of cell-phone use after seeing several people in a row talking on a cell phone, punctuated by one brazen young woman who was poking curiously at her keypad. Whether she was dialing, text-messaging or trying to reverse the

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[bonelesspuppy]

Entire sections of Tokyo are no-smoking zones. If you want to have a cigarette, you have to duck into a glassed-in "smoking lounge," where you can puff away in the company of your fellow nicotine addicts without getting smoke and ash into the (relatively) fresh outdoor air.

If we could do something like this for cell phones, the world would be a happier place for me.

[mankiller]

It used to be when I used my cell phone in public, I would duck over to a bank of pay phones, as that seemed an authorized noise pollution zone. Nowadays I let you hit voice mail and then find an out of the way place to call you back. Ahh, voicemail, the subtle reminder that YOU are PAYING for a cell PHONE. You pay. It works for you. Not the other way around. Do you give your boss a check for the advantage of working for him / her? Same principle.

Too bad the reminder is subtle and the response to "Genie in a Bottle" in MIDI is Pavlovian.