Mark Wright’s Blog

I live on my cell phone.  I am constantly using it in my job and for personal uses as well.  When cell phones came out, I thought they were gratuitous.  I swore I would never become so self important that I had to carry a phone around with me.  However, over time I broke down and got one.  Now it has become a part of my life.  The convenience of it is wonderful and it has become one of my most useful work tools. 

One of the things I’ve noticed is with anything, you get abuse.  You get people who are constantly talking on them.  They are taking personal calls on the job, keeping airplanes from taking off because they won’t get off the phone after they have been told to do so by the flight attendants or having loud conversations that are annoying to those around them. 

In India, they are taking this problem very seriously.  The government has noticed in increase in public rudeness and are looking at adopting measures that would put the most serious offenders in the clink.  In addition, they are looking at installing cell phone jammers at schools to keep students from talking as well as installing devices that would not allow cell phone use on roadways.  An even more interesting possibility would be to jail civil servants for talking on their phones during office hours. 

Now I don’t know if all of that is necessary but I do find it interesting.  When I use my cell phone, I always try to be as respectful as possible.  When I go to the movies, I turn it off.  When I talk on it, I usually try to find the most private place to have the call.  Now that is not to say that I haven’t had a few social faux pas when using my phone. 

So for those of you out there that continue to abuse your cell phone privileges, beware.  You never know when the day might come when you get thrown in cell phone jail.