Probably one of the greatest inventions in the modern world next to TV remote controls and microwave popcorn has got to be cell phones.
Yeah, I know, they can also be a curse, but I often wonder what we would do without them in business and family life.
Of course the new wireless phones have evolved greatly since the Motorola “bricks” people used to carry around back in the days of pioneers. Today, you can play games on them, access the Internet, play MP3 music and most recently, take digital photos.
Our 7-year-old daughter, who is really a 17-year-old in disguise, wanted her own cell phone after they introduced the American Idol phones last year. No way my wife and I were going to get her one no matter how much she wrapped me around her finger.
Part of the problem was that our 15-year-old son has a cell that we bought him — originally for emergencies but now that he has a girlfriend it has nearly attached itself permanently to his ear. We recently upgraded his phone to one that has digital camera capabilities.
His sister was wildly jealous that he got a phone and she didn’t, so one morning she snuck his phone away and started playing with it. She managed to figure out the digital camera and she came into our bedroom. She woke me up and when I sat up in bed, she took my picture.
I didn’t have a shirt on and I had “bedhead” hair that looked like the lead singer from the ’80s group Flock of Seagulls. She laughed and ran away, and soon I could hear our son trying to wrestle the phone away from her.
He did, but not before she sent that photo to everyone on his phone list. He must have half of Oahu’s teenage population on there so it went to a lot of people. I kind of worried about what all these kids would think, but then realized that to their parents, I probably just cut their kid’s future cell phone usage bill down to nothing.
Web Site of the Week
Sue Simmons sent in a couple of sites. One of them is for an online yard sale. Check it out:
