A cancer is growing in our societyFollow

Theres also another cancer in society. It's something along the lines of white-collar slackers who don't do their job. Don't you think those people are annoying?

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We don't have a land line anymore, and haven't for over a year. We do fine just using the cell phones. And I don't use mine a whole lot anyway. I'm not much of a phone chatter.

And on the manners; I agree that it's gotten bad. I'm really trying to teach manners to my son. So far, he always says Please, Thank You and Excuse Me. So maybe I'm off to a good start. But he is three, which means he throws tantrums and screams that he hates me a lot, so we'll see.

I don't know, would I get conjucal rights?

Except for the tools I mentioned who answer the phone in class and walk out to talk, it just doesn't bother me. Probably for the reason Flea listed above, and the fact that when my husband was in Baghdad I never knew when he would call, and when he did, that was when we were able to talk, whethere I was in the grocery store or at home. You don't really know what someones circumstances are. I say thank god for cellphones in instances like those.

Sometimes, they do die. Sometimes they're incoherent with fever and lost and have just enough thought left to call someone they know for help. And sometimes, unless you send an ambulance for them, they could slip into a coma and die.


Sometimes you have to call your siblings, because you're not in town and your loved one requires someone that can sign paperwork and act on their behalf.


I understand the need for people in general to confirm their knowledge by making simple-minded assumptions. I hope people can continue to grow out of that as they become adults.

Touché.

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Yeah, I know I'm not fooling anybody. We're actually overstocked because the root remedy hasn't been selling very well lately. Heck, I've been using it to put up wallpaper for the last month just to keep the pump primed.

I am.

Dr. Obvious. Nice to meet you.

Gee Miss Flea a bit defensive?

You have gone and taken my original post all out of context - you're well aware of that, I think. All types of communications are important and any normal human being, myself included, is not going to turn their back on another that is in need. Particularly those people we care about.

At the same time I can't let anyone be so dependent on me that if I couldn't, for some unforseen reason, reach a telephone that they wouldn't know what else to do. I know there will be exceptions, but those are only that - exceptions. There are very few circumstance where, if there was a real emergency I would want someone calling me and not 911....even if they're confused and unsure, even if they don't speak the language. The dispatchers are trained to deal with confused non-native people.

I think it was pretty clear that I was originally speaking about those people who are on their cell phone ALL the time,"attached" was the term I think I used. It's become a crutch for many. You can go to any public place and watch people use their cell phones to divert their own attention away from other people and their surroundings. It's sad, not to mention careless.

Can't you think of something more original than resorting to the old PMS retort?

Why? Are you feeling attacked?
To answer you, no. I don't need to feel defensive to argue my position.


Not aware it had a context. I believe that what I did was place it in one, which you then mocked as not relevant (because I'm no doctor) rather than accept that yes, there are exceptions to your original statement and continue along your way.


I agree. I hold that making yourself unavailable in such a technological age is turning your back. You are making a conscious decision to guard your private time from interruption, no matter who interrupts you or why they do it.


You know the old saying, right? "Be prepared." Again, if you choose to put your faith in the system, so be it. I have no say over your choice. I just think it's disrespectful to look down on people who don't make the same one. Does it make a difference to you? Of course not. Neither should the fact that I think that you're wrong.


Again, if you feel like you're lost, you don't know you're having a medical emergency. You call your family for help or directions, and it turns out you make no sense, so they call 911 and it turns out you are delerious with fever. How should they know they're going through a medical emergency? They may just feel tired and confused. Oh, and about confused non-native speakers... Not all. The budget doesn't allow for people that speak multiple languages at the end of every 911 call. When my loved one asked for help, they wer told that they were drunk and hung up on. The fever had slurred their speech. I knew them, and I knew this wasn't the case. I was lucid, and I could argue for them.


Pot, meet kettle. Again, you assume that you know the reasons and motives behind people's actions. There's truly nothing I can say to you to make you gracious and caring if you're just not. Nothing in your original post indicated that it was anything other than a blanket statement.

If your posts were better, you might be considered a troll. As it is now, you're barely considered.

It was more the fact that I have heard a similar retort to Katie not even 24 hours ago. To respond to a female being argumentative with that is, as I said, unoriginal and childish.