{"id":849,"date":"2005-06-14T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2008-07-15T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:12:04","slug":"cell-phone-freaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone freaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5.com\/news\/4605463\/detail.html\">Man Drops Cell Phone, Hit By CTA Train<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think if you were waiting for a train, you&#8217;d be a bit more aware of your surroundings and notice it coming so you don&#8217;t stick your head in the way. Somehow I think the condition of your skull is a bit more important than a stupid phone. People are so dumb, I don&#8217;t know why stuff like this even amazes me anymore. Let&#8217;s hope the impact kick-started some brain cells for that guy at least.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s a bit ridiculous how attached people are to their cell phones? I can&#8217;t go to the store without having to navigate around people talking a mile a minute as if they aren&#8217;t going to see the person in the next ten minutes anyway. They talk while paying for their groceries, in theaters during a movie, in their cars instead of paying attention to the road, at sporting events so you can&#8217;t enjoy the game in peace, in elevators where you can&#8217;t escape, and just about anywhere else except the library (and even then they are in the lobby yapping away). They even chat while pumping their gas! Not too long ago, I drove by three teenage girls walking down the street, each on their cell phone. Shouldn&#8217;t they have been talking to each other?<\/p>\n<p>Is all this chatting really necessary? We did just fine without cell phones not too long ago. Do we really need to be THAT connected? I hope they ban public cell phone use along with smoking. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I own and use my cell phone, but not nearly to the degree most people seem to, and I actually pay attention to the road if I happen to be driving at the time. I can&#8217;t say that much for the people who cut me off and blow red lights because they are too busy talking to even care what&#8217;s going on around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Drops Cell Phone, Hit By CTA Train You&#8217;d think if you were waiting for a train, you&#8217;d be a bit more aware of your surroundings and notice it coming so you don&#8217;t stick your head in the way. Somehow I think the condition of your skull is a bit more important than a stupid phone. People are so dumb, I don&#8217;t know why stuff like this even amazes me anymore. Let&#8217;s hope the impact kick-started some brain cells for that guy at least. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s a bit ridiculous how attached people are to their cell phones? I can&#8217;t go to the store without having to navigate around people talking a mile a minute as if they aren&#8217;t going to see the person in the next ten minutes anyway. They talk while paying for their groceries, in theaters during a movie, in their cars instead of paying attention <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=849\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-rants-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}