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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2967410" data-attributes="member: 7280">I don't mind cell phones much, as long as everyone's using some good sense about them. I finally had to smack my father though, because I found out that he'd turned into on of those dudes that would take a cell call during dinner out and crank his voice up a notch because he couldn't hear himself speaking. I had a long talk with him, with illustrations using our phones, about how cell phone mics are really quite awesome and most of the time you don't need to talk louder at all. Part of the problem was that he just wasn't holding the phone right.I've been known to throw off a quick call to ask if I need to bring something home or over to someone while in the car, but I don't have to dial my numbers on my phone to call someone or to get my messages and really there's mostly no traffic to speak about around here anyways. Usually I find that it's probably more distracting to have music on the radio than to be listening to messages on my cell.Mostly though, I've got one because it's the best way to get long distance and about half the time the cell phone towers out here come back online before the landlines after a hurricane.</blockquote>