Apparently it’s possible. Simon Usborne talks to eight people who live, and work, without a mobile phone.
People become obsessed with looking at them and fiddling with them. It’s all right if you’re a teenager, but there’s something pathetic about adults checking their mobiles all the time and texting. People get equally irritated by my failure to use one. If you’re supposed to be meeting someone, they will ask for your mobile. They’re completely flummoxed when you say you haven’t got one, as if it’s the end of the world. The thing is, you’re either there or you’re not it makes no difference if you can be contacted or not.
I’d hate being mobile free… I wouldn’t be able to live Twitter nights at the movies, by text. What’s your excuse?
