In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we have covered this subject before. Such is my detestation of this electronic locust plague, that like a sore tooth, I cannot ignore it.
In private, in publlc and in business, I think the mobile phone is the greatest single nuisance since the introduction of piped music ... Nay, much worse, since it is easier to escape the latter.
How many intimate moments are disrupted by a fonefreak partner's mobile Kermit alarm "Just a moment, honey ... This is important". Or, with your architect ."Now here's where we are going to put the childens ...." . Or over your morning caffee latte, a solitary mobile addict at the next table, "Getaway, you don't say, You don't say, getaway. He didn't. He did ? You don't say..."
Why go on? You may know that even in an hospital recovery ward where all you want to do is sleep, all through the night, the braying, whining, giggling and whispering of staff and patients with electronic tumours growing from ears.
Shall we ever reclaim our private earspace?
