Everywhere I go, there is an announcement up front - turn off your cell phones. At jury duty, the contempt charge was threatened seriously. No incoming calls and if you must call out, go outside. BUT...when the World Trade Center came down, many were grateful for the use of strangers' cell phones to locate family in lower Manhattan.

It drives me crazy to see kids walking down the street carrying on inane converations on cell phones..."So I told him 'Fuck, man'. And he said 'Screw you'. So I ain't hanging with him and his bitch anymore." GIANT SIGH. I don't own one yet.