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Originally Posted by RVGRINGO
I don't need my ego puffed up by feeling that I am so indispensable to the world that I must be able to be within reach at a moment's notice.
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Well, I feel I am indispensable and it has nothing to do with ego.
My 76 yr old mother lives alone and one night last year she called my cell phone and said one breathless sentence, "I'm calling 911" and hung up.
I immediately called back (on the cell phone I gave
her) and talked to her while she was lying on an ambulance gurney; she was on her way to the hospital, she had congestive heart failure.
She called 911 on her cell since it was on her hip, she couldn't walk to the phone on the wall in the kitchen.
Ego ? Hardly.
People who still think carrying a cell phone has to do with ego is
SO 1980's logic.
I always use the "Umbrella Comparison" regarding cell phones.
Hundreds of years ago, the umbrella was invented.
The inventor stood in the town square showing off his invention. Everyone stood around ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the invention.
There was one guy in the back of the crowd yelling, "What's wrong with getting wet ? My dad stood in the rain, my granddad stood in the rain. What, are we too good to stand in the rain ? Am I supposed to carry that thing around just in case it rains ?"
Now, do I
need a cell phone ? Of course not. I also don't need the 300 piece Craftsmans socket set in my garage; a pair of Vise Grips could get most jobs done. A cell phone is a tool, just like the socket set. It makes a job easier to do.
What's ironic about the whole issue is the people who poo-poo cell phones are the same people who have internet access on computers and drive smart cars that are controlled by computers. You
do realize that cell phones are computerized hand held devices, don't you ? Ironic as to where the line is drawn......