With a freaking cell phone.

It all started innocently enough...I was drinking Gatorade, just visiting with a friend, sitting out on his patio in the cool evening breeze.

Pretty soon, his wife and kids returned home from the movies.

Then, a cross-section of neighborhood rugrats showed up, plus one or two long-lost relatives, and suddenly a symphony of ring tones started sporadically going off, each playing it own distinctly syncopated sound.

If you think that's funny, you should have seen the looks on their faces when I said I didn't even have one.

A cell phone, I mean...

You'da thought I'd done broke wind.

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You are not the only one. I don't have a cell phone and I don't see myself getting one soon. They are an annoying part of society that I just can't get over.
Mark

Suffice to say, 'They all fall with hardball...'

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Funny but just last Friday 4 of us got together that had worked a special project some years ago.
Well retirements are starting to interfere with contact info so we all started to collect contact information.
They all started keying numbers into their whizzy bangy latest technology cell phones and I reached for a pencil . . .

Pencil, not pen at that.
They gave me til next year to come up to the pen level of technology.

My antiquated cell is in the console of the truck in case I ever need it.

It does sadden me to see a couple out at dinner and both hare constantly tending to their cell phone(s) with little personal interaction.

Guess I have earned my title as curmudgeon by virtue of surviving this long.

You ain't the only one around here....

have a cell phone, it's part of my emergency gear, it lives in the truck, with the radios, spare ammo/mags, food, water, first aid kits, golok, etc. Hate, while sitting in a nice café , having to hear some fecalhead yapping away, ruining my dinner.

And use it but I 100% agree about them being an annoying part of society. You can't turn around without seeing someone talking, texting, gaming or just plain playing with and usually while driving or sitting at a dinner table. I ain't for that!