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Funny innit? The "smarter" the phone the dumber we get.
Let's hope it doesn't progress to atrophy!
Funny innit? The "smarter" the phone the dumber we get.
Same with iPod. I LOVE my iPod!! ALL my music in a tiny device that fits in my pocket??!! A music-lover's dream.
But I NEVER listen to it in public. EVER. I don't even use the headphones!! I like being aware of my surroundings. I use it in my car while driving (through a device that allows it to play through the speakers!) and at home through my stereo. I make playlists so I don't have to fumble around for certain songs while driving. I put it on whichever playlist strikes my mood and GO! It's really not hard to be technologically safe and considerate
For me personally, I don't think it's cell phones so much as smart phones. The idea of a phone on the go is a fantastic idea. Ideally, the cell phone excels in the hands of adults, but in today's society where parents are becoming more hands off, it is necessary for kids and teens to have them. I'm only 24 but I miss pay phones.
I do think smart phones have allowed kids and some adults to "slack off". They can pretty much do anything for you, so you can essentially tune out while using them.
Just my two cents.
I use my headphones extensively on the bus, although I often have them in my ears but not on. It prevents conversations with odd people- I once had a guy follow me home and I was pretty sure I was going to end up on the news because he gave me the major creeps (luckily I scared him off). Headphones in my ears means I can pretend I don't hear them, and if my music is off, I still know what is going on.
A lot of people I know (particularly women) use their headphones in the same way- off but in. Really, I don't care if I look rude if it prevents some idiot from latching on to me.
I've never been in that kind of situation -- not even in creepy Philly. lol I don't usually carry my iPod with me when I go into the city, though. I try to take as little with me as possible because it's not unheard of that I might get mugged in broad daylight. You can take my credit cards -- they can get cancelled and replaced!! But it's taken me 5 years to build my iPod!!
I found the best way to keep the freaks and nut cases away was to carry a supply of fringe religious publications,
I went coast-to-coast on a Greyhound bus twice in the early '80s, long before the days of personal electronics, and I found the best way to keep the freaks and nut cases away was to carry a supply of fringe religious publications, which I would very visibly read at every stop. Nobody wanted to sit next to me for fear of being proselytized, and I was able to ride all the way to California and back with the whole seat to myself.
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This would work only if you could guarantee that the people who hand out chick tracts and tell you that the day of reckoning is coming aren't are the bus with you... we have a couple people who regularly get on the buses here and pester people about the status of their souls along with really hateful language about those who haven't accepted Christ. This is particularly true for the buses that come and go from the university, with the local religious nuts have decided is a "holdout of the devil's lair." They used to just be at the bus stop, but now they board the buses too and just ride back and forth and pester passengers.
This would work only if you could guarantee that the people who hand out chick tracts and tell you that the day of reckoning is coming aren't are the bus with you... we have a couple people who regularly get on the buses here and pester people about the status of their souls along with really hateful language about those who haven't accepted Christ. This is particularly true for the buses that come and go from the university, with the local religious nuts have decided is a "holdout of the devil's lair." They used to just be at the bus stop, but now they board the buses too and just ride back and forth and pester passengers.
The concept of "no fault" divorce. To me, the only real grounds for divorce is abuse or infidelity, not "irreconcilable differences" which can mean just about anything (usually having something to do with money) but could also mean that your spouse had simply "fallen out of love."
This would work only if you could guarantee that the people who hand out chick tracts and tell you that the day of reckoning is coming aren't are the bus with you... we have a couple people who regularly get on the buses here and pester people about the status of their souls along with really hateful language about those who haven't accepted Christ. This is particularly true for the buses that come and go from the university, with the local religious nuts have decided is a "holdout of the devil's lair." They used to just be at the bus stop, but now they board the buses too and just ride back and forth and pester passengers.