Pods

[Dancer]

Pods all over the place. Pod = someone obsessed with their cell phone. Go to a Little League game, everyone (almost) got a cell in their hand. Go out to dinner, family next to us. All got their cells out. No one talking to each other. Watch people getting ready to drive, soon as the car is started, out comes the cell. Just yesterday at a party, little 2yr old started fussing, mother dug in her purse, jammed a play cell in the kids hand. We're doomed. Neighbor gave a cell to her teenage girl, for emergencies. Wrecked car while texting. Ain't never gonna end. Young got to get a job in a restaurant, so they can have $ to go out to eat. So they can get on the cell and try to meet somebody. I swear put 2people together, they have nothing to say to each other. But there is still signs of hope.
Big need in this Country for people with skills. Plumbing, electronics, carpenters, engine repair, gas/oil rigs, law enforcement, medical, firemen, good jobs. Cells help these people with their jobs, gotta have them. But you still got the Pods. Wasting away.
My little rant, Save a life, get a pod to just put it away.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

So true... i also shun technology and change lol... but ,man you have little choice in this day and age,learn or be lost thats just the way it is... bought my wife her 1st cell phone several years back and she became an I PHONE zombie like all the rest... about a year or two later we are sitting in a restaurant on a friday night like we normally do and she takes 3 seconds out of her phone coma and tells me that im not communicating with her like i should huh huh huh ,oh boy ,i just about smashed the that darn thing right then and there but didnt.. however facebook helps me keep in touch with family i might not other wise ... just amazing when you think of how far technology has come and ponder where it might go next...

 

[GeorgeinSC]

A few years ago my wife and i were in need of new cell phones. We visited one provider and they refused to waive their outrageous charge for activation. We went to the second provider who we currently were using. I told the young salesman that I did not want a cell phone that was smarter than me. He looked me straight in the eye and said "I am sorry sir but we do not have one like that" So we purchased the cheapest flip phones that they had. Then i demanded that they waive the activation fee and also that i get a 10% military discount. I sometimes go a week or more without make a call or sending a text. The majority of time i just send my wife a text that i am off the beach and heading home.

 

[Dancer]

Geo SC. Actually your smarter than your phone. It's used as a tool, not as a addiction. I use a trac phone, just buy my minutes as I need them. $50 phone. No contact. No addiction.
And good for you on your shopping demands.