ah yes steels afraid of black folk good call thats why I wouldn't want to walk to the ghetto in the middle of the night. fyi isnt it more racist to assume crackton is full of black people bled...maybe it's a jewish ghetto named crackton...
no stupid it's so much more fucking convenient in every aspect of life to be reachable. I was able to tell my entire extended family I had cancer within an hour because I had a cellphone and access to the hospital phone and guess what all their numbers were in my cellphone so I don't have to carry a fucking list of names and numbers whereever I go JUST IN CASE. yesterday the place we were going to meet at for my party was closed but because everyone had cellphones we all just called each other and moved to a different place (considering people were late, had we just waited outside like you'd probably advocate, it would have gotten dark in front a street that just had three robberies in the past month and we probably would have said FUCK IT HE'S NOT GOING TO SHOW and left some people behind). I can call sredni to look up the price or a review of something online before I buy it in the store. my girlfriend could call me on the cell instead of the landline at two in the morning so she didn't wake up my three roommates and say "I'm outside, let me in so we can fuck."
you goddam luddite cellphones are insanely convenient if you aren't a shutin. do you think the only time someone should be accessible is in an emergency like MY CAR CRASHED or HELP 911? some of us like having, you know, lives.
I can't believe you're trying to push a massive cellphone conspiracy as the only reason anyone would want to be accessible to friends and families for non-emergency. the majority of people posting here aren't teeny boppers chatting away in the car, they're people who don't want to hang around a landline all day when they're expecting a call and would rather go out to eat, have the phone ring, answer it and say "hey yeah? oh okay dude 6:30? see you then."
and then you just keep harping on this one fucking example of CAR ACCIDENT. doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, officers, judges, magistrates, businessmen, all need to be accessible by certain people constantly. and on GW, we have people with sick parents and grandparents, siblings and relatives. I had a seizure in my mom's car once; because she had a cellphone she was able to call the doctor and tell him not to leave at 4:45. he normally leaves at five, and no bled we were not five minutes away from a payphone. people have all kinds of emergencies, whether it's as minor as missing the bus so you call ahead and say you'll probably miss dinner but don't worry (some of us like to do this, it's called decency) or as severe as a sudden unexpected seizure with your only son's life potentially hanging in the balance.
this is just the most unbelievably stupid line of thought. how can you argue that a cellphone which can put you in contact with emergency personnel in minutes is unnecessary? are you one of those people who bitches when someone buys a dvd because UGH...ENTERTAINMENT? REALLY?
FUCK CONVENIENCE. IN AN EMERGENCY I EXPECT YOU TO PULL A NAVY SEAL AND CARRY YOUR 170 POUND CHILD TO THE NEAREST PAYPHONE AND SEARCH FOR CHANGE.
a cellphone saved my life, got me second opinions, got my mom her relatives and friends, and has been nothing but massively convenient for me and my social and medical life. and you want me to walk to a fucking payphone? I can't believe this horseshit.