Re: CHAT: postcodes

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Eamon Graham <robertg@...>:
>
> >
> > I think there's a similar phenomenon here in France.  What makes me
> > laugh are the people who purposely whip out the cell phone in public
> > to look "cool" - how is it cool when I'm probably the only person in
> > France who doesn't have one?
> >
>
>Don' ask me. I've seen children of 8 with a mobile phone (or a "portable"
>as we
>say in French). This is pure nonsense...
>
>My friend and I resist as much as possible the mobile phone invasion. We
>don't
>have a mobile (what for? It would be always off with me anyway :)) . I
>don't
>like to be reachable at any moment),
I used to think like that 'fore I got a mobile phone, but pretty immediately
I realized that it infact increases my control over when I'm reachable; by
having the mobile with me, I can be reachable pretty much whenever I feel
like, while if I don't want to be I just keep the mobile turned off. If
worst comes to worst and I forget to turn it off when I should've and
somebody calls, well it's an embarassment, but I can always turn down the
call. The only truly bad thing is that as long as I live at my parents' I
can't unplug the fixed line when I feel like it.

                                                        Andreas

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