It's as close to a personal secretary as I'm likely to come, but it will do nicely. It's slightly deflating to get a new toy just in time for them to slap down new laws about it. Apparently, some restaurants are banning them, too. Picturing the worried mom phoning the babysitter, I thought this excessive until I heard a few people using their cell phones in public. My apologies, but I think it's another guy thing.
Men invariably slip into their deepest, most resonant tones when they pick up a phone.
Probably a knee-jerk reaction left over from the days when their voices were changing. It appears to be the auditory equivalent to holding in their stomachs when an attractive woman walks by, or an Alpha Dog maneuver, like wearing the red power tie for the staff meeting. In any case, unlike the hum of normal chitchat, a loud phone conversation is hard to ignore. I know way too much about the guy in front of me at the bank last week. He didn't know whether to move out of Vicki's house now or wait until Bambi throws out her jerk of a boyfriend, who he's going to punch out if he sees him again.