WHAT’S EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT? ———- by Steve Nadis
I suppose this is a banal observation that has, without a doubt, been discussed thousands of times before. Yet I’m still amazed at the number of people who seem to be talking on their phones ALL THE TIME–walking, shopping, driving, on the bus, trains, bicycles, you name it. Most people you see outside these days are talking on their phones, which was certainly not the case five years ago or even a few years ago. What I don’t get is how people have so much to say that they can and do spend hours–all day it seems–on the phone. Has the volume of essential and worthwhile discourse really gone up that much?
I don’t have a cell phone, which is probably obvious, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on something, as if what I really want to do is spend more time on the phone. Unlike the rest of our glib society, I just don’t have that much to say.
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20:13:24
If you don’t have that much to say, why do you say so much?
With respect to that (and with all due respect), I have nothing to say.
Burt, I can’t for the life of me figure out why you read this.
I don’t know why a lot of people feel the need to be on the phone all the time. However, if you have ever been on a playground when a kid bangs his head and falls unconscious, or have seen a pedestrian get hit by a car, or a car go plunging off the highway and into the woods, you know there are times when having a cell-phone is a real blessing. I just wish there was a feature that cuts off all annoying conversations (which almost all cell-phone converations seem to be).
Once again, Gatemouth, you’re absolutely correct. There is certainly a place for this device. The thing I still can’t get is that once people get these devices, some of them seem to be able to talk incessantly, as if they now have 100 times more to say than they did a few years ago. That I believed and still do.