Do you have a cell phone?

[NMMNG]

Poll question: Do you have a cell phone?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. I have a cellphone ...

because I don't have a landline . And since I work in another city , it comes in handy as well .

[enigmatic]

2. no

I think I'm one of the 3 people in North America w/o one..

[Solon]

3. I'm number 2! n/t

[Wetzelbill]

5. I suppose I'm # 3

Oh I hate those things. Making society an even ruder place. Yuk. I would get one only if I absolutely had to do so.

[enigmatic]

6. Hate Hate Hate them...

I never, ever want one. Mrs E has one, and everytime I see it it's like Count Dracula freaking out when he sees a cross..

[Wetzelbill]

12. you seem like more of a Count Chocula man, imho...

That's a funny way to describe it, lol. I had a professor in Seattle who hated those things to death. He once was at an outdoor concert with a bunch of students for some class related activity, he told them all not to have their cell phones on etc. This girl got a call and started talking loudly as he was explaining something, so he just grabbed it out of her hand and threw it, haha. I don't know how well that went over but I loved that story. There used to be this website where these guys would go out, one with a camera and the other dressed up in this giant cell phone costume. When somebody would be walking by with a cell phone the guy in the costume would grab it out of their hands, throw it to the ground and stomp all over it, then run for his life, lol. It was great. People would just be in shock. Man, that guy probably has gotten brutally murdered by now. Somebody had to catch him.

[enigmatic]

14. hahaha

It's funny too, because I'm an electronics freak; I think it's because I hate phones to begin with on the privacy thing alone, so it just carries on from there..

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. I try to be as cordial as possible when I use mine .

Whenever I am out in public I have it on vibrate , and when I do get a call , I go to another area away from everyone else and I still talk as low as possible . I hate it whenever someone in my vicinity talks loudly on their cellphone with the " hey look at me I am on my cellphone " attitude :eyes:

[Wetzelbill]

8. what I hate is when

you are talking to somebody and they get a call. They just pull it out and start chattering away while you stand there like an idiot. That's the worst. I was so incensed when a friend did that to me it was all I could do to not blow up and start a fight with him. That to me is the rudest thing ever.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. If I am already with someone in person , I will make the clal short

and call the person back later - because like you , I too think its rude when the other person is left there like an idiot . I have one because I don't have a landline and I work in another city away from home .

[Wetzelbill]

13. see that is acceptable

nothing wrong with taking a call and making it short. I hate it when people will yammer on about nothing and leave somebody standing there for several minutes. Those people should be shot, haha. :)

[enigmatic]

15. I know you would

You're a kind person, so that goes without saying :)

We got into a wreck w/ a person last month w/ a person yakking on a cell phone instead of paying attention to their driving, so it's a sore spot (literally) to me these days..

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

24. Yes I remember posting about your wreck .

I am glad that you and Mrs. Eigmatic are alright . I pass by people on the road everyday that are on their cellphones rather than watching the road . Just last night someone ran the ran light as I was turning right into my street - they came out of no where and missed me by a couple of inches . Why ? - on their damn cell phone .

[NMMNG]

10. I don't have one and never have

I've never felt the overriding need for such an expenditure. I'll get one only if absolutely necessary.

[tjwmason]

4. Yes

I was given it as a Christmas present by my mother :crazy:

Whilst I don't use it very much - I have it with me all of the time.

One thing I have found useful is getting text-alerts. Over the summer I have received a daily message from the B.B.C. telling me what that evening's prom will be; plus I get major news alerts texted to me as well.

In fact - I probably use it twice as much for texts as for calls, if not more.

[NMMNG]

11. An FYI

Be careful what you text (and what others text to you). In the event you or someone who texts to you gets arrested, the police can pull the LUDs from the cell phones and get word for word copies of all text messages in question. Law and Order franchise.

[tjwmason]

16. The one's I write are usually along the lines of

"Hello little sister - haven't seen you for a while, how are you doing?"

Which aren't really going to get the police that excited.

[NMMNG]

17. That's good

Keep them clean like that and you should be just fine.

[Clintmax]

18. Yep, I do...

But I need a new one, so I'm going to the Cingular Store today to look at them and purchase a new one!

[hickman1937]

19. Had one, ditched it. Sick and tired of predatory attacks

on my paycheck.

[NMMNG]

20. Predatory attacks on your paycheck?

[hickman1937]

25. I signed up for 32 dollars a month

200 minutes, 1000 minutes of week-end or late night shit. Never actually used more than 90 minutes total every month, but my bill was about 60 bucks a month. I don't like being scammed.

[NMMNG]

27. I hate when they pull that BS

I don't blame you for getting out.

[NuttyFluffers]

21. it exists in my possession, yes.

do i willfully use it? no. in fact i ignore the land line phone, too. if the house isn't on fire this second, it can wait. i need my beauty sleep. and beauty lounging...

[BamaGirl]

22. I have one, hate it, but

with 3 kids, I need some way for ppl to get in touch with me when I'm not here.

[undeterred]

23. 3 phones for 1 person

very nice treo paid for by my job
very cheap personal cell phone
land line- I'm getting rid of it!

[sbj405]

43. I have the same situation.

I'm trying to figure out how to forward calls from my personal phone to my treo, because carrying 2 phones really stinks.

[scarlet_owl]

26. I just got it today.

I don't really need it, but my mother got two extra phones for cheap with her plan, so she gave one to me and the other to my sister. I can't figure the damned thing out.

[marzipanni]

28. I'm waiting for the phone of the future,

the Stem-cell phone. You grow it in your brain and you can communicate with people not only wirelessly, but phonelessly!. I practice this form of communication by walking around talking to myself and to my dog, even when she is not with me.

[NMMNG]

32. There was a "Terminator" book where the Terminator cyborg had

something like that. She could make and receive calls via an implant she had in her head, although when someone else was in the room she had to pick up a phone and pretend to be using it.

[darkism]

29. Yes, and I cherish it like right-wingers cherish their guns.

Don't try and tell me what I can and can't do with it.

I'm an adult. I am perfectly capable of talking on the phone and driving safely at the same time without some silly headset.

I know to turn it on vibrate when I'm going someplace where ringing would be obnoxious.

I know how to keep my conversations in small public places quiet, respectful and short.

I'm a responsible phone owner, and I'm sick and tired of the crusade some people have to regulate their use or vilify their users.

Oh, and nobody needs a camera or streaming video or games or ESPECIALLY text messaging on a PHONE. It's a PHONE - you TALK with it. Not take pictures. Or watch CNN. Or play Breakout. Or use a clumsy keypad to peck out messages to someone in three times the amount of time it would take to call them up and actually SPEAK.

/rant

[NMMNG]

33. You sound like a responsible owner

You are not the type one needs to "crusade" against.

[Graf Orlok]

30. I've got one, but no one calls me.

:(

[chknltl]

31. Drats could not vote like a republican...

....your poll only allowed me to vote once.

[NMMNG]

34. Which did you vote for, and what other option would you have voted for

if you could have voted for more than one?

[chknltl]

35. Buffy........yippeee....

hooray....I am not on your ignore list??? (He sighs with much relief), I was just making a little joke, very little, I know.
I have a cell phone, my daughter got it for me, it stays with me always. I use it at least once a day, that'd be answering fave daughter checkin in, otherwise I call out on it very rarely.
Great lil gadget.

[NMMNG]

36. I don't have anybody on my ignore list

:-)

[chknltl]

38. Then you ROCK my dear fundie slayer

.....I promiss to always speak nice about you from now on... ok so I generally speak nice about most folks.... you still rock though.
(See how easy I am)

[NMMNG]

39. Oh, from now on--as opposed to before

Just kidding...

[chknltl]

40. I found this earlier, since you have been nice I'll share.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2080465
I found it absolutely hilarious

[NMMNG]

41. LOL, that explains a lot!

[tedoll78]

37. Not yet.

But I'm getting one later this week, now that I have a killer job at the hospital and will be on call all the time. Yay! Ka-ching!!! :bounce:

[khashka]

42. I just got one....

I hate the damn things. I think they are evil.

But my dad had to get a blackberry and a new account for work... and he always pawns off his old gadgets on me... so now I have one.

I keep it in my car in case of emergency, but so far I've never used the little hellspawn.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

46. They are indeed nasty

But hideously useful - especially for text messages.

[Skittles]

44. yes but it has strict purposes

work and of course I'd usei it in an emergency - is not for chitchat and DAMN I wish more people treated them like I do

[caty]

45. Yes--

our house has one (this is the only number we give out), my husband has one, and I have one. We gave up our land line and have saved a lot of money doing so.