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I've been enjoying these for days now! Thanks Heidi and all!

I was bummed that I couldn't participate. But I've just returned from a trip and found that, yes, I can!

CELL PHONES!

Hey Gus, driving the big 18 wheeler! Maybe you could get that cell phone outta yer ear while you're merging onto the interstate. Either that or drop the ham sandwich you're stuffing into your pie hole with the other hand. Something tells me that no matter how good a driver you are with two hands, you're probably not that great with two legs!

And besides, you're about to come up on Martha, who's driving 45 in the center lane while she's chatting away on HER phone!

And Bill, who's standing in front of a beautiful waterfall in a peaceful setting at Yellowstone mucking it up for the rest of us while you scream into your cell phone to your wife about how beautiful it is. Maybe you could have waited the 30 seconds it took her to reach the waterfall HERSELF and see how nice it was with her own eyes!

And Lucy, on the jet with me that's grounded in a blizzard, talking on your cell phone in a loud voice about how we haven't lifted off yet because the folks maintaining and flying the plane "can't get their act together". Yeah, what have you done lately that's more complicated than dialing a phone or moving a mouse?

Well at least you took my mind off Terry, who's describing her sexual escapades from her vacation to her friend on the other end of the phone as well as to the kids in the seat in front of her.

And Mike, is your attention span really so short that you can't remember what your wife asked you to buy at the store? Do you really have to call and ask her while you're holding up the line at the check-out? Maybe that phone of yours is affecting your brain and you should put it down for awhile.

And Howard, guess what? It's been a decade since having a cell phone ring in a restaurant was novel. No one thinks you're important anymore just because you get a call in the middle of dinner.

But maybe I'm not seeing the positive features. To Daisy and Brad, who sat at a table eating dinner together while, the whole time, talking to different people on your own cell phones. Maybe this is a way to extend your marriage by never having to communicate with each other. Hey, I'm more than happy to listen to the boring details of both of your days if it keeps your marriage together!

Hey, it didn't work - I don't feel any better. Oh well, time to go play some music.

Scott