Reply #20: I don't have one.

[CBHagman]

For starters, I don't talk on the phone much (E-mail has proved more practical). Secondly, I don't really need one for business purposes. Thirdly, I simply hate the things. They have their uses, but mostly they just create divisions and disruptions. They go off in church and at museums and in the theater. I walk down the street and watch my fellow pedestrians. Most of them have their heads cocked to a cell phone. People check out at the supermarket without so much as interrupting their chatter on that device.

It used to be that if a beeper went off in church, we knew an emergency volunteer was being summoned to help someone. Now it's just routine ringing during hymns, sermons, and prayers. The church requests that pagers and cell phones be shut off to allow "a prayerful atmosphere," but you can imagine how effective that plea is.

Once I went to hear Helen Thomas speak, and the moderator very carefully asked us to put all cell phones on vibrate During the discussion, Mr. I'm Too Damned Important to Consider Other People's phone went off, and he answered it while climbing across a row of people on his way out the door. I'm sure he was Very Important. I'm also sure he was socially incompetent. :mad: