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Happy birthday, refusenik! #cellphonerefuseniks
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About this: people who don't have a cell phone aren't necessarily hard to reach.
If you have a landline, a phone number at work and an e-mail address, you're extremely easy to reach at least 22 hours a day. And if people are feeling pissy because they can't call you during your commute, or when you're having dinner outside, or you're at the movies, they should get a grip, leave a message and give you a couple of hours to call them back. Jesus.
I really don't know people who have neither a cell phone nor a landline, seriously. It's at least one of those, which means that when you can't reach them immediately when you want to at some point (Oh the humanity!), you can leave a message.) #cellphonerefuseniks
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Not only that, but she keeps trying to convince all the rest of us that we don't need cell phones either.
Note: I'm not saying that everyone sans cell phone is like this, but this one person gets on my nerves. #cellphonerefuseniks
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Dear Gregory,
You can just turn off the phone.
Love,
egg cream
I mean, I get that it's relaxing to disconnect -- last month, I went away to visit family, and during the week I was out of the city, I think I looked at my cell phone a total of two times. Half the time, I didn't even bother to bring it with me when I left the house. There's something to be said for just being on your own, with the people you're with, and no one else. But I didn't have to make some grand statement by rejecting cell phones and all they represent, and hand out a list of ways to contact me, to do that. All I had to do was not pick up my phone.
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Basically, I can be available 24 hours a day, but I don't have to be. #cellphonerefuseniks
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The people who just refuse to have a cell phone make my life hell. I've had a situation arise where I sent a paralegal, who apparently didn't have a cell phone, to Court to file papers that had to be received by 5 p.m. that day. She got lost, but couldn't find a payphone to call me for awhile. Then when she got to Court, my papers were rejected (for erroneous reasons) and she had to leave the Courthouse and find a payphone down the street (she said she couldn't find one at Court) to call me and tell me about it. I was all "Put me on the phone with the clerk!" and she's all "I can't, I'm a block away." This would be at 4:50 p.m. At that point, I flipped out.
I also had a friend who didn't have a cell and once we couldn't find each other at the designated "meeting spot" and so I spent an hour looking for her. After I didn't find her, I went home. Thanks!
Cell phones aren't just for people who want to chat with their moms all day - it's a useful tool for everyday life. And when you don't own a cell phone, you actually fuck with other people's lives - and that ain't cool. #cellphonerefuseniks
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For me it's cell phone or groceries. I choose eating. Not everyone is just not as smart as your grandpa. #cellphonerefuseniks
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People reach me all the time - the same way they did a decade ago before cellphones were ubiquitous. #cellphonerefuseniks
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@scootermom: As an associate, I have no say about that sort of thing nor do I think asking the firm to pay for cellphones for their paralegals will go over well when they won't even pay for its own lawyers to have blackberries. That doesn't make the paralegals issue any less MY problem. #cellphonerefuseniks
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I got a new phone; we don't have a landline and I don't care to get one installed, but I definitely feel less attached to it.
Oh wait. I said that I only used someone else's phone to call the police? I forgot about those times I went to pay phones and called all my friends, using all their daytime minutes, to gossip. Disregard! #cellphonerefuseniks
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I also slept with a blankie until I was far too old, so there may be some residual psychological issues going on here. #cellphonerefuseniks
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I'm so tired of this totally pointless sense of immediacy in our culture - not everything is an emergency, no, I don't need to answer your phone call while I'm driving. In the past, people managed to hold on to messages until the person they needed got home, people managed to make plans in advance rather than just being like, "Just call me when you're free," and frankly, if I have to honk at another asshole who's too busy texting to see that the light has been green for ten seconds, I'm going to piss my pants.
Whatever happened to just living in the moment? Why do we have to have this surrogate comfort latched onto our ears every time we have a free minute? The world has not changed; we have - and to expect everyone to live up to our new arbitrary rules is bogus. #cellphonerefuseniks
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Also, some jobs do require cells, or are at least greatly made easier by them. It might have been different when payphones were everywhere, but that is no longer the case. #cellphonerefuseniks
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Yeah, I have a cell phone, but you know, I've realized that in the future, a land line would cost a lot less each month. And there's always Skype, e-mail, pay-as-you-go phones. But all of those choices are my choices and I don't want to be villified for how I choose to spend my money, you know? No one should put those kinds of standards on people - it's just not cool. Where's Dave Ramsey? He'll back me up. #cellphonerefuseniks