By The Way...

Thursday, February 15, 2007
9:32:00 AM EST
Hearing On the Air -- Peter Gabriel
Since I got a new cell phone over the weekend, I asked folks to snap pictures of the phones for me as well for this week's Photo Shoot. They did, and some of them even added their own thought on their phones:

"I never turn it on unless I need to use it."

"It's old. I can't take a picture or a movie with it. It doesn't play mp3s. I can't call home by telling it 'call home.' Why anyone needs any of those things, I don't know."

"I don't really know why I own a mobile phone to be honest. I leave it switched on all day but I probably get a call once a week, on a busy week."

This person does a participation entry two-fer.

Cats! With cell phones!

"How timely because my darling husband decided that it was time to upgrade our 2 year old cell phones. The beating his much used phone takes on the job at construction sites or selling real estate proved that it was indeed time to replace his phone. Mine was still in great shape because I seldom use it."

"Since buying the phones as Christmas gifts last year, I swear I haven't seen any of my children without something plastered to their ears. It's like an extra appendage grew there."

"This is my...let's see...my fourth Sprint PCS phone. I hope it's my last."

"I will admit it, I enjoy the fun aspects of having a cell phone, such as being able to Text Message with my pal H. P. Due to his weird, hectic schedule, sometimes that is the only we can connect and keep up with each other."

"I love the silent function on the phone. I can turn the ringer off but leave the phone on. When someone calls and I don't answer they'll think I just didn't hear the phone - and they'll be right!"

Being that I have such a conflicted relationship with my own cell phone, it was really interesting to read other people's thoughts about theirs. Thanks, folks.


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• #5 Comment from lurkynat 
  2/17/07 10:50 AM | Permalink

  dear John, interesting! thanks!
  natalie
• #4 Comment from monponsett 
  2/16/07 11:54 PM | Permalink

  I bought my first microwave oven (my mother refused to even consider buying one) in 1998, so you can imagine when I'll get one of those phone thingys.
• #3 Comment from dreambeliever2 
  2/15/07 2:31 PM | Permalink

  I thought I read in your previous entry that you didn't really think you would "need" a cell phone (wasn't that when Sprint took away your freebie cell phone)? What happened to getting an iPhone? :)
• #2 Comment from plittle 
  2/15/07 12:46 PM | Permalink

  "Phoning it in." Ha, you're hilarious! How do you think of these things?
  ;-)
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
  
• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  2/15/07 9:58 AM | Permalink

  I was going to do this as a straight Audio entry that inexplicably turned into a lurid phone-sex episode late enough in a lengthy entry so that all but 95% of the readers would have clicked out of it... but I sound like Julia Childs, and I couldn't talk my friend Tammy- who has the perfect voice for what I had in mind- into it.
  
  This strategy may be re-attempted some time when we've been into the burgundy.