Just pondering on just how much the mobile phone has become such a big part of peoples lives; how nearly every single person has one and how the use of telecommunications has changed.
Remembering back to my teenage years and how, to make a call I had to go to the telephone box on the corner of Ludlow Road and Alderson Road (we did not have a telephone in the house; as was the case with a greater proportion of the homes around that area) the phone box actually was quite a meeting point; where we could actually call the few mates with phones to arrange the next meeting point. My how things have moved on as I sat there i the car calling ahead (hands free on voice dialling) to say I would be about ten minutes late in !!! and as walking from the car to work noticing the amount of people walking and talking. I actually found myself wondering, just what was everyone talking about, so I listened as I followed or walked along aside heading to the office and of the five snippets of conversation I heard five snippets of life.
One .. a trip to Brighton apparently leaving a t 5:ish should be in the room by 8
Two .. johns coming round… 7ish….get a few cans …. You know what he likes
Three … I don’t care…you shouldn’t have said that …
Four …. Mom said she will have the kids…yes please….seven…okay
Five … can you get me the number….its along here somewhere…say again… sorry the lines bad here
Its like people watching only with a element of being a snoop. Wondering what the other side of the conversation is and what the entire subject matter was..
Voyeuristic ?
