Re: CHAT: postcodes

taliesin wrote:

>The mid nineties marked the beginning of the cell phone epidemic
>in my country. They were being sold for 1 NOK (~ 15 cents?) a piece,
>and suddenly "everyone" had one. Now children (12 and older) are
>*expected* by their peers to have one, which is nuts. I was lucky
>to live my childhood/teenage years early enough to avoid that mess.
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?

But the funniest incident was when I was in a restaurant once in the
Latin Quarter, and a young man answers the ring of his cell phone
and starts a conversation - however he must have set the alarm to go
off as if he had a phone call because during his "conversation" the
phone rang and he had a real phone call... from his mother. :)

Cheers,
Eamon

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