[MR] Pennsic Cell Phones

[Ceara ni Neill]

I agree completely. One would think that folks would consider this before
meandering around with that mysterious magic thing stuck to their ear, but
I suppose not....

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===Ceara ni Neill
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> Hail, fellow tavern dwellers!
>      This Pennsic I noticed a rather disturbing trend: Cell phones
> ringing
> everywhere I went, whiling teaching classes, or while walking down the
> street,  or while eating in the market place.  This grew to be very
> annoying very  quickly.  Nothing will ruin any semblance of period
> atmosphere more quickly than the  shrill chirp of a cell phone (even if
> it is playing Handel's "Messiah").   This was coupled with the image of
> peopld walking down the street, appearantly  talking animatedly to
> themselves until one got close enough to them to see the  cell phone in
> their hand.
>      Now, I begin to ask the question:  is this necessary?  I can
> understand
> that some people want to be instantly contactable for emergency
> purposes, but  really, the advent of the cell phone occurred very
> recently, and somehow the  HUman race not only survived, but thrived
> happily without it.
>        What does everyone else think?  Am I the only one who noticed and
> was
> bothered by it?  I am thinking of writing to next year's event steward
> and  asking that they enforce a ban on cell phone ringers (one can set
> one's cell  phone to vibrate, which would then not bother anyone).
>
> Yours,
> Judith de Northumbria
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