ET...phone home

Every day as I leave work, I must walk across a few streets in the city to get to my connecting bus stop. As I wait for my bus to arrive, I often look at the passing crowd with interest, they are so many different kind of people about it's never boring.

I notice that these days many people walk while talking to someone on their mobile phone. It's funny really to think that in its early development a mobile phone was about the size of a brick and no one except for the odd tradesman would have wanted to have one. Now that they are tiny, they're is suddenly a need for them. They've almost become a disease !

So this afternoon as I waited for my bus I whipped out my mobile phone and called my other half and it went something like this..

- Hi Hun !

- Hi...where are you ?

- I'm just on my way home waiting for my bus. I'm just calling because I wanted to
experience the "phone glued to ear" city syndrome....

- ..LOL..silly bugger.


- ..Ok well I'll see you tonight but I might stay on the phone a bit, just pretending
I'm talking for a bit longer !


As I stood there on the sidewalk holding my phone to my ear I felt the power surge through me.

I could have been talking to anyone...I could have been talking to my wife, discussing politics with George Bush and Michael Moore, asked Jamie Oliver to cook us dinner tonight, passed on confidential information on how to make a nuclear powered toaster to the Iranians, Asked Mick Jagger if he wouldn't mind bringing the boys around for a jamming session in my garage....

and nobody would have known....

If only ET had had a mobile phone he wouldn't have had to go through all the trouble he went through...( quite remarkable that those aliens knew how to build a space ship to cross the galaxy but hadn't quite come up with mobile phone technology as yet ! )