If you happen to go to work by bus, you often see sleepy people who are reading their magazines or books, or who are trying to memorize words… Twenty years ago, the situation was almost the same. However, there is a huge difference: today, at least twenty percent of these people are holding their mobile phones, and they are talking to someone. The most frequent questions are: “Where are you?”, “What’s up?” It would be interesting to analyze these conversations and the topics themselves. People tend to talk about their personal feelings and emotions, they are telling their secrets, and so on. We may often feel uncomfortable when we are sitting in front of this person, but this is not enough. It may also happen that the person asks, “Why are you listening to me?” Well, you are just trying to get to your workplace, and he was the one who was shouring. I wonder how people could survive without mobile phones…
/irony on
ReplyDeleteI just love when mobile phones of old ladies start to ring on the tram. It is either the base ringtone of that particular phone company or some old song that was the greatest hit somtime in the '60s. I'm sure each and every passanger on the tram loves those tunes. And it takes them only a million years to get that phone from the bottom of their bag (old women's bag!). Then they start shouting whit that other person, just because they can't hear well, and, you know, people like to hear their own voice while speaking. They talk about everything from the food in the fridge to the neighbour's daughter. Then they hang up, saying they are on a tram and can't hear well. Isn't it just lovely?
/irony off
Sure, sometimes I do talk on the phone (though I mostly use it as a calendar and alarm clock). What can you hear then? Mostly yes-es or no-s. Or I just say that "cant talk, on a tram, call you back." I don't want strangers to listen to my private conversations.
oh, and
no mobile phones = the end of the world, as we know it