What Are They Talking About?
I have been continually amazed at the growing number of cell phone users. If I am sitting in a coffee shop and looking outside, I rarely see a person who is walking without talking on their cell phone. I would like to give you a ratio here about how many people are using cell phones, but I am not good with numbers and don’t want to ruin my entry with over-exaggerated terms.
Everytime I see a person walking and talking I wonder a few things:
1. Are people purposely talking on their phone while they are in public so others can see how popular they are? If so, that is a lot of work! Leading to the next question…
2. What are they talking about?! I definitely talk while I am walking, but never more than quick conversations. These people are talking on their phones every day and they are always walking somwhere - so are they making up things to talk about or do they just have that much more to say than I do?
3. Has the cell phone replaced the friend? People are either with people and without their cell phones or they are alone and talking on a cell phone.
In most cases, I am usually wondering what they have to talk about all the time.
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Hmm… I talk on my cell phone to my mom a lot when I’m going places, but I’m usually in my car (shhhh… I know that’s a bad habit) or occasionally in a store, but then I usually miss whatever it was I was looking for.
My personal favorite is the middle/high school couples that walk around the mall holding hands and talking to different people on their cell phones. Now THAT’s a date, I tell ya.
A lot of the time when Tom and I are on our way somewhere that is at least 10 minutes away (driving), we make phone calls so family and friends. And by “we make phone calls,” I mean that I call while Tom drives. However, without fail, the phone call is always longer than the drive (even if we have 45 minutes to get somewhere), so we sit for awhile in the car while I continue the conversation. But then Tom gets impatient sitting there and we get out of the car and start to walk into the store or wherever it is we are going. This is where my conversational skills with the person on the phone get horrible, there are multiple distractions, I am out of breath from the talking and walking
and I officially become that person who you see on their phone.
Anyways, I usually have lots to say on the phone since I’m generally calling friends and family who don’t live in the same state as me. So maybe all these people you see are just sad and lonely because they have no family or friends nearby and they decide to call them while they are walking. But I bet most of them are the “always working” people who are making work phone calls between appointments and calling home to say hi to their family in between all that.