Your Talkback on the Cell Phone Rant

Some caller commentary I've been getting that I thought you would enjoy.


Okay, can't help you with phone drama. I HATE cell phones, wireless phones, wall phones, etc. I fell out of love with them as soon as I got over that late teen hormonal imbalance that made me actually think boys dressed in sweaty gym clothes were hot....oh, they're hot all right.....but it just makes them smell and generate laundry for someone to have to wash....someone not THEM. I remember hours of listening to Mr. I'm-Going-To-Keep-You-Forever-by-Wearing-Your-Lettermans-
Jacket-through-the-High-School-Halls just BREATHE on the phone. Now? If Randy calls me and has nothing to say, my response isn't to breathe longingly back.....it's a curt "What the Hell????? Busy here! Do you have nothing to do???? I can find some things.....stop using up your minutes and only call if you NEED something......(dammit)" That last part is usually said AS I'm hanging up the phone, in a very hateful voice.....followed by a nice "idiot" once I'm sure the phone is off. NOW.....what I DO wish you had done with this BLOG, and I hope you will do, is direct my dear daughter to your comment about the pink hair. She insisted. I let her do the ends, about 4" worth, in hot pink....last Friday. Today? Not one week later? Day-glo orange with cotton candy pink highlights......you should have helped her out instead of reading that manual.

K.E.




I too bought the RAZR, thinking cool phone (although I dumped my Startec many moons ago) and got sucked into the same marketing tornado that Mist did. Of course as a Mom, all I need it for is to keep track of the kids (who by chance only text msg or totally ignore the Mom calls). Anyway, the kiddie GPS theory is totally a smoke dream from some executive sitting in an office in prob Basking Ridge thinking "parents will love this". WELL NOT. Kids just do not pick up phones. Anyway back to the RAZR - my VCAST mobile is draining my battery to nothing while losing connections before I can even get a second of video clip or music. I thought maybe I would check the weather and after getting a connection and seeing the weather.com commentator BAMB - lost connection. So I am better off turning on Channel 2 for the latest (or looking out the window as i am often desparate). I have another 26 days to decide if I want to keep the RAZR and my vote is NO. Those cheap Motorola phones that you can drop and keep working seem to be the way to go. Mist - we need to unite and kill the RAZR.

t.




And my response...

Ahh yes, Basking Ridge, the land of Not-Quite-Right Ideas dreamed up by our valiant leaders. Being a 38 yr old kid who doesn't pick up the phone myself, I see where the concept needs tweaking. But they never listen to us anyway-no one paid attention to my Telecommuter DSL bundle product idea either...and it could bring in actual REVENUE (Staff call "r-poo", hahahha).

Anyway, as for the indestructible part, it never dawned on me that my cell phone would be a toddler's favorite action-packed toy. But we moms are not the only ones who need phones made of recycled rubber tractor tires. I stopped to chat with my neighbor yesterday morning as he was picking his cell phone up from the ground and putting the pieces back together. I asked him if his phone had been doing double duty as an air hammer (he owns a consrtuction biz). Of course, this set him off on his own cell phone rant about having to buy 5 of the stupid things in the last year.

We're such easy marks for a cool ad blitz.

Oh, and since I ordered mine from the VZ eweb...I don't have your 30 day return luxury. I can hear them somewhere in VZ Wireless chanting "haha, you're stuck with us, you're stuck with us, nanny nanny boo boo".