Please Hold My Calls Cell phones - they're everywhere. They've multiplied faster than Simon Cowell's scowls on American Idol. I recently saw an elderly man talking on a cell phone outside some stores. He ambled alo...read more
I belong to a group of rare (and occasionally chastised) individuals who does NOT need their cell phone to do everything but fix dinner. I only need the phone to function as a phone. NOT as a camera, NOT as a computer,...read more
by Jon Coe
I remember the days before cell phones very clearly, just like it was yesterday. When ever my car broke down, I'd either walk to the nearest phone box, or a nice stranger would stop and offer me assistance. Nowadays, t...read more
Call me jealous. I don't have a job that keeps me in demand 24 hours a day. I don't know how to look terribly important with a lap top in the airport lounge. I am too self conscious to want my phone ringing on the train. I...read more
Most countries may refer to their portable phones as cell phones however in my country they are called mobile phones. My country is the great land down under or Australia to give it its correct name. Some of my fellow c...read more
by Tracy Farr
Just to let you know - I'm fine, but I'm a little shaken up. But more importantly, I'll never again go anywhere without my trusted cell phone by my side. It all started on Saturday, the first day of Spring Break. I de...read more
"Last Man to Answer the Cell Phone" It was my wife's 80-year-old Aunt V.V. who shamed me into it. She went out and bought her own cell phone. Her aunt, I'm saying. A woman who as far as I know still likes to do mo...read more
The men and women who choose to wear our nation's uniform enjoy the fact our armed forces have always embraced new, cutting edge, technology. The woman, and fellow military member, I share my life with fits this mold perfe...read more
by B. Birdwell
I can't even begin to count the number of times I've lost something of importance, and it was usually my cell phone. When it was misplaced, I usually had someone call me so that I could locate it by the sound of my Bon Jo...read more
PHONEY LOVER- LAST week I rekindled an almost forgotten friendship, which was much like rediscovering a lost love. It happened quite by chance when I looked in one of the nooks we used to visit together, a special plac...read more
My fiancee enjoyed having my nephew with him on some of their job sites because, even for child his age, he is very smart and observant. Charles felt he might be a positive influence in his life if he took up a little tim...read more
by Hermes
As a recreational jogger I'm always amazed at the number of young women who are glued to their cell phones when I run past them. You may be way ahead of me here already of course, especially if I say that it's usually when...read more
I hate hell phones. I do. You know what I'm talking about. Those little gadgets that people carry with them so they can talk all the time about nothing. I have one myself, and I hate it. I only accepted it because my so...read more
I've got a cell phone. A simple one. In theory I can make calls, receive calls and if I've got plenty of time to spare, send a text message on it! I sometimes receive text messages, but more often than not I press a wrong ...read more
by Sammy Stein
'You have a message from the dark side!' Yoda informed me. I ignored him. ' You have a message from the dark side!' Yoda again. 'Um... I think you had better get that!' My interviewer indicated my bag in which my...read more
by Chris Lima
It is a wonder that humans have made it this far in life. Without the invention of the glorious cell phone device, it's a wonder that we managed to survive as a species. I am a videographer by profession, and I was film...read more
Are you talking to me? Though not having anything to do with Robert De Niro and his famous line from Taxi Driver, we could use Bob and his angry character's indignation for the next upcoming technology attraction, whi...read more
by Lanie Adams
Tech-Tardation It's that time of year again, when I shuffle my way into a brightly-lit cell phone store and trade in my outdated 5-pound current cell phone for a more up-to-date, yet still technologically-inferior cel...read more
by Humor Hero
If you don't have a cell phone these days you're either an African Bushman or not yet born. I have two cell phones: one for work and one for personal use. In fact, I don't even have a land line in my house. My theory is th...read more
How scary is it that the couple of times I've misplaced my cell phone I experienced a certain level of terror? I consider myself to be a fairly intelligent guy with a fair sense of what is important in life. The fact that...read more
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