It’s Official. Everyone on whole damn planet has a cell phone.

OK, 20 minutes ago I was walking into Gelsons when a scruffy looking guy who was sitting on the curb outside talking on a cell phone told the person he was talking to to please hold on a second and then proceeded to ask me if I had any spare change. For what? His roaming minutes? WTF?

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5 Comments so far

  1. Francene (unregistered) on November 1st, 2004 @ 11:46 am

    I was in Ralphs and saw someone paying for their groceries with foodstamps, then pull out their cell phone on the way out.

  2. diesel (unregistered) on November 1st, 2004 @ 12:53 pm

    when you’re homeless, you don’t have a home phone. that makes it very difficult to manage the world - not to mention calling potential employers and landlords. so cell phones make a lot of sense. they are really cheap these days, you know. i am a social worker with homeless folks and about half of them have a cell phone. they don’t often pay the bill, but for a while, they manage to hold on to one.

  3. HL (unregistered) on November 1st, 2004 @ 12:54 pm

    So if you’re homeless and you have a cell phone…where does the carrier send the bill and how do they pay the bill?

  4. Sean Bonner (unregistered) on November 1st, 2004 @ 2:25 pm

    I didn’t say he was homeless, I said he was asking for change.

  5. Robert (unregistered) on November 1st, 2004 @ 3:09 pm

    I believe you can purchase cell phones that have X number of minutes of talk time associated with them, without having to open an account. Once you run out, you pay more $ for more minutes.


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