Thursday, November 15, 2007

cell is other people

do you remember when there was cellphone etiquette? when the one person you knew owned a phone would blush at a squawking 2-bit Old Macdonald ringtone, whisper apologies in every direction and hurry to the nearest permissible area as if suddenly suckerpunched by stage 2 of Montazuma's revenge? do you remember when people were exhorted to leave tables? go into other rooms? leave the house? remember when they were treated as pariahs and not as if they were the 110 decibel rallying point of convergent 'future technology'? remember when they were the only brain-tumor you had? remember when one person checking their phone led to people rolling their eyes as opposed to inducing them to check their own? when your Mum didn't have Giving the Dog a Bone as her personal ringtone for Gerry from her darts-league?
remember that? when you thought that you invented the 'they look like crazy people' joke? when PDAs held up the mini-putters behind without making you look like a total shithead?
...i just realized i could go on a long time about this one...

5 comments:

Lucy said...
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Lucy said...

What the Heck is a PDA?
Do you mean one of those hand-held computer phones or a Public Display of Affection. Cuz those can get pretty annoying for the other mini-putters too. I just can't decide which is more annoying in a mini-putting line up

Eve said...

Amen!

Eve said...

And no, I don't remember when there was cell phone etiquette.

S'Mat said...

Odd that you wouldn't remember it Eve.
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I'm kidding!