Back in the early 1990’s I was working on a creative project with a friend, and he went through a phase when it was really hard to get a hold of him. I had been hearing about these new things called “cell phones”. I didn’t know anything about cell phones, but I was getting so frustrated with my friend that I actually went to Circuit City (that’s a blast from the past, too) to look at one of these new fangled cell phones.
They only had one model of cell phone available in the entire Circuit City store and it was on display (where else?) inside the car stereo room. It looked just like the one in the picture. I figured if I spent $50 or $100 and convinced him to carry that thing in his gym bag, I’d always be able to reach him!
When I talked to the clerk, I had no idea that you had to actually pay for cellular service on top of buying the gadget! I seriously thought you could just buy that phone and you could make calls over the air like a walkie talkie for free.
When I discovered that little known fact about needing to pay a monthly cell service, I thought a little more and soon realized that if he was enough of a flake that he wouldn’t return calls, he probably would forget to carry the damn cell phone, too!
And that, my friends, is how our whole phone etiquette changed. Now, be polite, put down the iPhone, and sign up for the VIP Room.
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