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myLot reputation of 91/100. ORyansBelt2012 (1999)   ranked 526 out of 34,985 in life1 year ago

Let’s not waste any time and get right to the point: I hate cell phones and everything about them.
What I hate most about cell phones is that I am completely and hopelessly dependent on them now.
We’ve become a herd of celloholics, and sadly, I am an addict.
Hello, my name is O'Ryan and I can’t live without my cell phone.
Cell phones have become an addictive need.
You can lose twenty bucks and while you might be a little upset, life goes on right?
But misplace your cell phone?
You would think Jesus just called and Armageddon’s coming. You will tear your house, car and life inside out until you find it.
I had lost my cell phone once and actually shook my fist at the ceiling, crying out in helpless anger, “Where did you hide my cell phone?”
I find that troubling on so many different levels, one that I lost control of my temper, and two, because I blamed the ceiling for playing a prank on me.
For years I resisted the urge to get connected.
I don’t have enough friends that I want to talk to at a moment’s notice or that I’d want to hear from as soon as I left the movies. I don’t have a circle of friends. I don’t even have an arc of friends. It’s more like a short line.
I’m simply not that friendly.
I thought that’s why God invented answering machines, so you could screen your in-laws’ calls.
Now, a cell phone call is like God calling.
Or your mom.
And you better by God answer it.
I admit it. They got us. I’m addicted.
I need my cell phone, but cell phone coverage around here stinks.
I could be in the middle of an important phone call maybe something as ridiculously fantastic as finally hooking up with the girl of my dreams, and the call will drop. When I try to call back my cell phone scolds me with, “Call not allowed. Network failed. Emergency calls only.”
Well this is an emergency!
But be on the phone with your mom… while she’s going on and on about shaving corns, or chin waxing, or how she just hasn’t been regular lately, and those four bars stand tall and proud and every last stay-with-you-til-the-day-you-die detail comes in loud and clear.
Before I joined the Cell Phone Nation I never screamed. I never shook my fist in anger. I never blamed the ceiling for it’s mischievous nature. I didn’t even know what a conniption was much less be able to pitch one.
But now, I actually argue with my cell phone.
And lose.
We live in a cell phone black hole. I am convinced somewhere out there somebody pulled the cosmic plug and all that wonderful cell phone coverage is being sucked into another dimension.
They say there’s a fine line between fishing and standing in water looking like an idiot holding a stick. The same holds true for people and what they do with their cell phones in order to find that elusive signal bar.
I’m the guy you see walking around town around holding my cell phone out at arm’s length trying to catch a signal bar like catching snowflakes on the wind. I spent so much time looking into my phone trying to find a signal that I caught two folks on Main Street who mistook me for a tourist taking pictures with my cell phone. I stood there for three minutes telling them to smile and say cheese because I didn’t have the heart to admit that my cell phone couldn’t do that.
To my surprise, I didn’t feel like an idiot standing there, holding my cell phone at arm’s length pretending to take pictures of complete strangers. Instead I felt shame. I had a cell phone that couldn’t take pictures and I had to lie about it.
A show of hands please: I have actually stood on a kitchen chair and held my cell phone up to the ceiling to try and catch a signal bar.
You’re lying if you say you’ve never done that.
I just want to talk on the phone without bending in places I can’t bend anymore, sitting in my chair and not standing on it.
ET would have better luck phoning home.

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 82/100. nakitalikely3617 (298)   ranked 2,852 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

Well I love my cellular phone and everything about it. I get great coverage as well. Cell phones are one of the greatest inventions to mankind.

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2. myLot reputation of 96/100. berryliciousme (612)   ranked 356 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

I used to be very dependent to my cellphone but now, I noticed that I only bring it for emergency purposes. Just in case something happens, I would a gadget that I could use to call people. I always keep my cellphone in my bag and not in my pocket. Luckily, I got rid of that habit of always having my cellphone near me. I just check it now a few times a day to see if someone had left a message for me.

Before, I had a phone which could take pictures which I always brought with me but then it was lost/stolen. I now have something more simple and less expensive that maybe even if I lose it, it will not be much of a loss.

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3. myLot reputation of 83/100. danzer (2465)   ranked 2,479 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

Cell phones are just a tool for communication. In my belief, you don't hate cellphones, you love it. Whatever the situation, whether you are struggling to get a signal or you are blessed, the truth still remains, cellphones are useful.

But improper use can bring the user destruction, trouble, and agony! "You either use your cellphone, or your cellphone will use you!"

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4. myLot reputation of 76/100. Benjaminna (179)   ranked 10,305 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

LOL - Thanks for the laugh! I hate cell phones also but we rarely use them. My husband has one and he calls me when he leaves for work to let me know when he will be home - that's it. He rarely uses it any other time. I have one but I use it maybe once a month - if that.

My 13 year old daughter has been BEGGING me for a cell phone and my answer is no. My biggest pet peeve is seeing kids walking around with cell phones and she wants one because all her friends have one. I told her if she could come up with a good reason why she would need one then I might consider it, but that hasn't happened yet.


myLot reputation of 91/100. ORyansBelt2012 (1999)   ranked 526 out of 34,985 in life  1 year ago

Finally.
Someone sees the sarcasm here.
I write a weekly column for my newspaper and this is next week's column.
Cell phone coverage in my town defies the conventional laws of Einsteinian quantum physics that it manages to suck and blow at the same time.


myLot reputation of 76/100. Benjaminna (179)   ranked 10,305 out of 34,985 in life  1 year ago

Yup I got it! Loved your humor! What kind of column do you write for in the paper?

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5. myLot reputation of 92/100. winterose (17526)   ranked 5,931 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

well I really hate cell phones, and I do not have one, nor will I get one,

first of all I don't need one so that is the biggest reason, my house phone is good enough for me. I have an answering machine and people can leave a message.

second they cost extra money which I don't have,

third, they are annoying ringing and vibrating at the wrong time,

they are too small for me to see the numbers to dial.

I will not pay x amount a month for a cell phone in the odd chance that I am out someplace and need to get in touch with somebody,

I believe last time I checked there were still pay phones available for that purpose


myLot reputation of 97/100. GardenGerty (17989)   ranked 74 out of 34,985 in life  1 year ago

Pay phones are hard to find around here nowadays. When I have needed to make a call, before I had a tracfone, someone or another comes along and makes a call for me on THEIR cell phone.


myLot reputation of 92/100. winterose (17526)   ranked 5,931 out of 34,985 in life  1 year ago

I have not had that problem, there are enough around here especially in malls, and I don't need to have a cellphone, the industry has just built a need so that people will buy them.

I have always lived fine without them. And still do, sure sometimes they come in handy but I am not about to pay big money every month because I might be need one once or twice a year.

I hear people sitting on buses, calling somebody to say I am on the bus will be at your place in 10 minutes, you know what I tell the person before I live the house that I am leaving and they see me when I get there.

other people stand at a bus stop get bored waiting for the bus so decide to call their friends,


yes if your a business person and every telephone counts on your livilihood I see the need, or like my boyfriend who is disabled and I bought his first cellphone for him because if he fell somewhere he would be able to get help,

most people I know just run up crazy bills for talking while they are outside and bored.

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6. pathfinderobs (79)   ranked 18,850 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

I still like my phone. It was before that I am fond of it that I become so dependent. However, I was able to manage using it.

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7. rk_agrawal (95)   ranked 3,852 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

cell phone has became the best part of my life infact it has beacse a crucial part of my life3 and i think i can't live without cell phones....

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8. myLot reputation of 92/100. RobinJ (2015)   ranked 567 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

I am so sorry, I can not even give you an empathy answer as I do not own a cell phone nor am I interested in ever owing one. Like you I can count friends and family on one hand, and I have a land line that I pay for and seldom use unless it to answer some telemarketers obnoxious call. I am surprised they haven figured out a way to call your cell phone the cell phone companies that sell plans would be in your debt for ever.
I have been almost hit by cars, bikes and people walking because they are deep in a conversation on their cell phone, I suppose if you have 1000+ minutes and are paying for them you must/have to use them. It must be very difficult owning a cell phone and I do not feel the need to join you. so I promise not to call

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9. myLot reputation of 76/100. elisa126 (125)   ranked 6,716 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

Don't own a cell phone and I like it that way!! lol

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10. BEEZYSHAWtY (2)   ranked 18,855 out of 34,985 in life   1 year ago

Are u kidding me I LOVE CELL PHONES!! I cant live without my cell phone! lol. not really but u get the point. I think you should really evaluate the convieniece of a cell phone. Im pretty sure if you were with the right cell phone company that you would enjoy your cell phone. But i understand the expierences that you have had with them and yes they can be so annoying.LOL.

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