It seems to me that as cell phones get more and more sophisticated it does not get any easier to get a hold of someone. My son just purchased the iPhone from Apple. This, I'm told, is the best of the best, the ultimate, the answer, the top of the line, the coolest, the razor's edge, the "bomb" (?), just absolutely something you must have. His Blackberry had just stopped "berrying" and it served as the perfect excuse for spending $400 on something new on the technology food chain.So, he's had the thing about two weeks and I can't get him. I've tried to call him, text him and e-mail him. He tells me that because he doesn't want to "hurt" it, he puts it in his precious very high priced Matco tool box. Actually this tool box looks like a high tech amioire with enough space to fit his equally over priced tools. Anyway, so there it sits all day and if I'm lucky he'll look at it, see that I've called and call me back.
Now I could easily get a hold of him if I used the ancient land line telephone, but nobody seems to do that anymore. "Never do that", he tell me. My wife has made an exception for me at her workplace, but that's me using my cell to call her land line phone. And that's only if I can't reach her on her cell phone. This is all becoming too tedious for me.
I called my new doctor on my cell (phone) to get the results of my blood work. The receptionist, or whatever they call the person answering the not cell phone is, said she would e-mail the doctor on his PA to let him know I called. E-mail his PA? Is he not standing 5 or 10 feet from you in his office or in some examining room examining something or someone? Can't you just buzz him like they did in the old days or even just shout "hey doc, Mr. Grumpy's on the phone?"
Just like computers were supposed to make out lives better, more efficient and paperless and didn't - cell phones don't do anything to improve our lives. Today, I waged my private little revolution against the whole cell phone, wireless, laptop establishment and left home without them.
