TheBanyanTree: Cell Phones

[Theta Brentnall]

At 04:44 PM 9/29/03 -0400, Sachet wrote:

>I darn well make sure my daughter has the cell phone whenever she leaves 
>the house. It makes me breathe a little bit easier to know that she isn't 
>totally "alone" as she ventures into the new world of driving, working and 
>being wonderfully independent.

Before the days of the ubiquitious cell phone, Gerry and I were hams.  We 
still are hams, in many senses of the word, but basically, we are people 
who talk to other people on radios.  We had radios in our cars when they 
were VERY LARGE BOXES sitting in the middle of everything, just waiting to 
draw blood on their sharp little corners.  I carried a radio in my 
purse.  Large purse.  Large radio, about the size and weight of a brick, so 
that's what they were called - bricks.  As in, "Make sure you take the 
brick in case you need something."

When Maggie was taking drivers training, Gerry made her take amateur radio 
classes also, so she had her license for both car and radio at the same 
time.  When she went out with her friends, she had not only a radio in the 
car, but one in her purse also.  Fortunately, by that time the state of the 
art had progressed so her "brick" was about the size of a pack of 
cigarettes.  Her friends thought it was more cool than Maggie did, (she 
called it the 'electronic leash'), but there were several cases of 
someone's car breaking down and we went to get them because we were the 
ones who could be reached.  We also did phone calls to parents of everyone 
in Maggie's pack when the game went into overtime and all the kids knew 
they were going to be late coming home.

So now we all have cell phones and I love them.   My new phone has 
different ringers I can set, so Gerry's is a bugle call for a cavalry 
charge, Liz is the Minute Waltz, and Maggie is Here We Go Round the 
Mulberry Bush.   I'm trying to find "Hail to the Chief" to download for 
Gerry's ringer.   And they don't weight 7 pounds, like the first piece of 
comm equipment I hauled around.  Yep, I'm guilty and loving it.

Theta
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