Spring Break
Cell phones make the modern world go round
By: Elyssa Jechow
Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: Aggielife
I remember the fateful day that my family became connected. My dad brought home the ultra-modern bag phone, and from then on - as long as we were in the car - we could call and be called.
If I was out at the ranch with my dad and I got bored, I would call my mom at the house for a good chat. She could call us so that we knew what time to be home for dinner, and it became standard to take the car phone on road trips so that if anyone got in a dire situation, all they had to do was ring up.
Thinking about how desperate I become without my phone makes me gloomy. Knowing that a day without a phone would mean a day in hell is a terrible feeling. However enlightened I pretend to be, I am not above the world of the cellular phone.
I commend anyone who has so far eluded the lure of being able to reach people at any time and any place. You avoid the pleasure of being able to text message in class, get the latest gossip at the push of a button and have complete convenience in so many ways.
I will go on wondering how, not so long ago, people were able to function without that miniature device my life unfortunately seems to depend on.
If I was out at the ranch with my dad and I got bored, I would call my mom at the house for a good chat. She could call us so that we knew what time to be home for dinner, and it became standard to take the car phone on road trips so that if anyone got in a dire situation, all they had to do was ring up.
Thinking about how desperate I become without my phone makes me gloomy. Knowing that a day without a phone would mean a day in hell is a terrible feeling. However enlightened I pretend to be, I am not above the world of the cellular phone.
I commend anyone who has so far eluded the lure of being able to reach people at any time and any place. You avoid the pleasure of being able to text message in class, get the latest gossip at the push of a button and have complete convenience in so many ways.
I will go on wondering how, not so long ago, people were able to function without that miniature device my life unfortunately seems to depend on.
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