Cell phones. Remember back in the days of "Miami Vice" when a cell phone was the size of a cement block and we all laughed at Don Johnson talking on that fucking ridiculous looking thing while out on his boat? You figure that back then we thought no more advances would be made in that technology - just like in the case of flying cars, we would never see it happen.
Well, here we are, 25 years later, and cell phones are now the size of tylenol capsules. Let's be fair though...for the people who actually wanna do things with their phone, we're talking more along the size of thick credit cards. iPhones, Droids, you name it....you can just as easily read this blog on your phone as you can eat a bowl of cereal at 3pm. That really made no sense, but wow. It's just amazing that we, as a society, can now do just about anything on a cell phone.....and god forbid we'd be without it for even a second. I've seen people literally have a stroke...a fucking stroke...because their cell battery went dead. Because let's face it - we all know what that means. It means you can't TWEET the fact that your cell battery went dead...and in the maybe 10 minutes that you won't be connected to the rest of the world, all your friends will feel neglected and hate your ass forever.
I do a lot of walking around a college campus..and it truly is fun to notice that everybody is talking to somebody ALL THE TIME. And I can only imagine the complexity of these conversations. Something along the lines of "Hey, what ya doin?" "Nothin." "Really? I'm walking to class right now!" "Oh yeah?" "Yep. So I'll probably call you when I'm done and see what you're doing then." "Ok, later." And c'mon. We all know that the person on the other end will still be doing NOTHING and is too afraid to tell the originator of the phone call to leave them the fuck alone. Same thing with grocery store phone calls. It's called a STORE LIST, assholes. Don't walk into the store and immediately forget absolutely everything you need just so you can call your significant other and chat loudly while the rest of us roll our eyes and wish a violent death upon you.
So yeah. I guess you could say I might have a little bit of a problem with the subject of cell phones. Actually, that's not true. The phone itself is harmless, it's just the owner that needs to rethink everything. I look forward to some feedback on this one because I know that some of you can defend, in a coherent manner, what goes on...and I wanna hear it...truly.
Well, here we are, 25 years later, and cell phones are now the size of tylenol capsules. Let's be fair though...for the people who actually wanna do things with their phone, we're talking more along the size of thick credit cards. iPhones, Droids, you name it....you can just as easily read this blog on your phone as you can eat a bowl of cereal at 3pm. That really made no sense, but wow. It's just amazing that we, as a society, can now do just about anything on a cell phone.....and god forbid we'd be without it for even a second. I've seen people literally have a stroke...a fucking stroke...because their cell battery went dead. Because let's face it - we all know what that means. It means you can't TWEET the fact that your cell battery went dead...and in the maybe 10 minutes that you won't be connected to the rest of the world, all your friends will feel neglected and hate your ass forever.
I do a lot of walking around a college campus..and it truly is fun to notice that everybody is talking to somebody ALL THE TIME. And I can only imagine the complexity of these conversations. Something along the lines of "Hey, what ya doin?" "Nothin." "Really? I'm walking to class right now!" "Oh yeah?" "Yep. So I'll probably call you when I'm done and see what you're doing then." "Ok, later." And c'mon. We all know that the person on the other end will still be doing NOTHING and is too afraid to tell the originator of the phone call to leave them the fuck alone. Same thing with grocery store phone calls. It's called a STORE LIST, assholes. Don't walk into the store and immediately forget absolutely everything you need just so you can call your significant other and chat loudly while the rest of us roll our eyes and wish a violent death upon you.
So yeah. I guess you could say I might have a little bit of a problem with the subject of cell phones. Actually, that's not true. The phone itself is harmless, it's just the owner that needs to rethink everything. I look forward to some feedback on this one because I know that some of you can defend, in a coherent manner, what goes on...and I wanna hear it...truly.
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I have a G1 for t-mobile. that phone does everything! the only downside to it is that it's kind of heavy. lol tha would come in hand when i'm in the grocery styore and next to the person speaking obnoxiously loud on their cell phone. I'd be like "Hey, did you know that my cellular device is better than yours? Mine is an android, like a robot, and it transforms into a brick!" and i would throw it at them. haha, at least in my imagination.