Now you may be asking how in the world did he get off on this topic, he is using a computer to type this blog!! Well it just so happened today that I broke my cellphone and it is going to be a couple of days before it can be replaced and I AM GOING CRAZY!! It is so sad that we have come to rely on technology so heavily in our lives. You know I was just thinking last night (and this is true) about what to write about today and I was thinking back to when I first started and how simple things were and then a certain image popped into my mind - WHEN WE FIRST GOT CELLPHONES!!! That is the honest truth, last night I thought back to when I was an investigator and we first got cellphones, funny how life turns around on you isn't it?
Now for you young folks, and I know this probably hard for you to understand but believe it or not, when cell phones first came out, you couldn't put them in your pocket!!! Those first phones we got and these were top of the line at the time - came in a bag! Yep, a bag, you carried the phone around with you in a bag, when you got in the car you had to put an antennae on top of the car so you could get a signal and all you could do with it - WAS TALK!! Oh my god, but we thought we were tough back then. Pull up to a red light and pretend you were talking on the phone, holey crap that was fun!! People would stare at you like you had a million dollars - must have thought we were doctors or something!! Speaking of which and now you really had to be there during this era when only doctors and such carried pagers and I know I am getting somewhat off topic but this just popped into my mind. I remember being at the movies one night and my pager going off and I heard a lady that was sitting behind me say "He must be a doctor", I about fell down the aisle!!!
Sorry about that, the mind wanders sometimes you know, anyway back to the phones, I can even remember the name of the company - Intercell (sorry couldn't link them to anything - they are long gone), god why would I remember that!!! But anyway, these phones were huge, had the buttons on the top of the handset and the buttons were green and red and the bag of course was black.
We thought we were walkin tall buddy let me tell ya, portable phones - who would have ever thought there could be such a thing!! Now look at us, my phone has been down for less than 12 hours and I am going crazy! Even though we have a house phone, nobody ever calls it and probably only a handful of people even know the number and besides - it is just a phone!!! No texting, no FB, no apps, no nuthin, life's a bitch isn't it. Maybe we should all just give up our cellphones and go back to using a real telephone - NOT!! Do you realize that the world would actually stop moving if we didn't have cellphones? It is true, all that radiation being put off by the trillions of cellphones out there is what keeps the world spinning these days - no one ever tell you that? Well you heard it here first then.
Let's see, we first had pagers and these pagers came with an answering service - someone paged you, you had to call the service to get your message, then we moved up big time - pagers with number displays!!! Whoosh, we were moving up in the world and then low and behold they came out with pagers that would actually let them send you a message!! Oh my god, could life get any easier? I remember those days of having to find a working payphone (there actually use to be these big boxes placed on poles that had phones in them that anyone could use - as long as you had a dime and then it went up to a quarter!!),
when the office wanted you to call them. We even had a list of numbers of the different pay phones and where they were located so the office could call us - take that quarter and shove it!! Then we really got smart - we just called 911 for free and then got the office to call us back at that number. God those were the days, so simple, until people started stealing all the phones and the phone company stopped replacing them!
Well then came the cellphones but they didn't replace the pagers of course because you couldn't just walk around with the bag phone slung over your shoulder all day long, besides the battery only lasted about an hours before it died. So we were stuck with the pagers for a while - until - REAL cellphones came out! Now we were talking, something you could actually put in your pocket and walk around with it!!! Man that was sweet, I still remember that first real cellphone - it was small, no flip open thing for me, this was a stick and I loved it! Still texting and all the stuff we have today was still a few years off but we were in heaven, until we discovered the one BIG down fall. NOW they could call us anytime!! Man we just couldn't win but those were the days, so simple, so easily pleased. MAN I MISS MY CELLPHONE!!!
Jack (Tommy) Carter
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