Date:         Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:28:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Subject:      Re: cell phones (was smoker law)
Comments: To: Jay & Kim Schmidt <schmidt5@HSONLINE.NET>
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For you it may be a leash, but for me it's a tool, and one that makes my
business -- selling and servicing computers in a VERY rural area --
possible.  I use my phone several times a day, usually while stopped, but
not always.  I use it to keep in contact with clients, get directions,
reschedule, and every now and then to call AAA.

Many of my clients are ranchers, and I spend a couple of days a week
driving to places that are AT LEAST 50 miles from the nearest gas station,
and sometimes much further from the nearest town.  I have also summoned
ambulances or firefighters on numerous occasions, and several times the
nearest land line phone was 45 minutes away.

In my part of the US, SE Arizona, cell phones are much more of a lifeline
than a leash.  Just because something isn't useful to you doesn't mean it
isn't useful.  It must be hard to park in a mind that narrow.

At 02:32 PM 9/2/99 -0500, Jay & Kim Schmidt wrote:
> It's a leash for cryin' out loud!   Now if you've only used it
>once in the last 2 years when your bus was on the side of the road with
>smoke...well then is it really worth the payments?  Man, SIMPLIFY and
>breathe!

Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com
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