The Case Against Cell Phones

Aside from generally sounding a touch crazy, I have a few problems with This Article on the evils of Cell Phones.

Starting at the top, cell phones need not be the electric leash that people often make them out to be: they're a convenience, and the only one who can leash you with them is yourself. Don't want to answer a call? Then don't. Doing something more important, like having dinner with friends or walking along the beach? Turn it off; it's not a crime. if it's really important they'll leave a message or call back anyways. It's no worse in the end than if you didn't have a cell phone and people could only catch you while you were home, but it's better because when you *do* have the time and motivation to use it, it's right there.

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This is the most stimulating bit of my work-day so far. that makes me cry.

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I'm so bored (and so thirty to write something) that I made a haiku.

Wind through the floorboards.
The drip of iron on wood.
Night of silent screams.