I was longing for the day when the lane-weavers on the highway turned out to be merely drunk instead of critically vain. And I was really, really looking forward to not feeling like wringing the neck of every other human being I pass on the street. A year ago, these things all seemed within reach. Study after study warned that using a cell phone might melt your brain faster than watching 24 hours straight of old Pauly Shore movies. But then came the report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , and there were no maybes about it.
Cell phones are safe.
If you can't tell, I really hate cell phones. They are the rudest devices ever devised by man, bar none. As with so many tech toys, they allow people to do things in places they once couldn't. For instance, you rarely used to see someone walking down the street with a telephone booth strapped to their back. Sadly, manners haven't kept pace with technology.