I remember back in high school when my friend Emily had received her first cell phone for her birthday. It was one of those monstrosities that was big enough to connect to the entire planet or at least make us look cool, so we thought.
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The main purpose back then was for our parents to keep a close on eye on where we were at all times, forgetting that kids will be kids.
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However, the times have changed, the cell phone industry has revolutionized, and people have become much more dependant on a invention that meant so little years ago, at least when then first came out.
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After years of use and overcharges from cell phone companies, I kicked mine to the curb and I now us it for an alarm clock and nothing else.
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So why are so many people obsessed with having a cell phone terminally attached to their ear at all times? I guess in my eyes it may make them feel more important or they just feel the need to broadcast their entire lives to the free world while speaking out load on their Nextels and speaker's.
There is nothing more annoying than standing behind someone in a checkout lane and the person in front of you is speaking on their cell phone, ignoring the constant waving of the cashier to swipe their card or give them money so they can get the heck out of their line.
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Even when I walk the college campus, after classes are dismissed, students frantically reach for their cell phones, iphones, and whatever else is the latest gadgetry and permantly place it to their ear while walking the 5 steps to their next class afraid they will miss what their friends had for breakfast.
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Or maybe, they're keeping up with the lastest episode of Spongebob Squarepants or Beavis and Butthead making sure they have their fill of educational material for the day, not concerning themselves with the F they just received on their Math test.
One of my personal experiences with a cell phone was at my restaurant during a busy Friday night. I was working on the hotline with one of my employees and they had the audacity to pick up their cell phone when it rang. Imagine my surprise when he just kept on talking even when I gave him the look of death.
This is where it gets exceedingly interesting. I proceeded to grab the cell phone from his ear and with the most stern voice I could muster up I said "If you ever want to see the light of day, you will not pick up that cell phone on my line again or I will through it directly into the deep fryer."
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I'm sure you're all thinking how harsh this is, considering everytime I worked at a corporate restaurant, the managers and chefs wouldn't give a second glance to a line cook answering his cell phone on bended knee so they wouldn't be seen.
So what may you ask is my point? My point is that there is a word called RESPECT, and so many people have no idea what that means. We survived a depression, the Gread Flood, and War so surely consumers can live without cells phones.
People dont also realize these days that the cell phone is bought for their convenience and not for an headache.