Do you remember when mobile phones were the size and weight of at least a brick? If you have watched Ashes to Ashes  or the even better first series Life on Mars  you will start to remember the era I am talking about (well it was not really that long ago but it does bring back a feeling of the ‘old days’).
I remember being dead against mobiles, “why would I want to be contacted at anytime of the day or night”, “If I’m out then I’m out, surely nothing can be that important and if it is I’ll ring home from a land line”. Now !!!! well its a different story … there are all the usual safety features like knowing where the children are, the convenience of ringing to say I missed the train can you pick me up please :) …. Yet it still amazes me how it feels like something is missing if I leave home without it. I still am not convinced that I like being interrupted by the phone at odd moments of the day. Yet I can’t seem to do without it?!

My father bought my sister and I our first mobiles. I don’t think I used it for three or four months. A small personal rebellion. (That reminds me I must have been quite idealistic then because he also used to buy us lottery tickets and I said I didn’t want to win because I already had a fantastic life and didn’t want anything to change !!! maybe I was in a strange phase!??)

Now I never switch the phone off, I only switch it to silent when I am in a meeting. In the last twelve years I have only had four inappropriate or inappropriately timed phone calls. Not bad going, and I wouldn’t be without my phone. I used to do quite a lot of driving, well sitting, on the A40 into London. It meant that the phone and the car become my early morning office. I could catch up with friends, or make plans with the office. Speak to my partner without interruptions that always seem to occur at home in the mornings.

Now my tarriff allows me free landline calls and of course that means I am on the phone all day :)

Do you remember life before your mobile?

Could you imagine life without your mobile?

 

 

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