An Experiment in Scotch

I’m a firm believer in the fact that com­ments on web sites typ­i­cally drag the con­ver­sa­tion down to the low­est com­mon denom­i­na­tor but occa­sion­ally, you find a com­ment that is insightful.  I found one of those on red­dit the other day and I thought it was worth mentioning:  “Peo­ple who carry cell­phones remind me of dogs who proudly carry their leash around in their mouths.”

Now being both a cell­phone car­rier and a dog-owner, this strikes me on both sides but there is a cer­tain amount of truth to the mat­ter when you think how proud a dog is when he gets to put his leash in his mouth, never under­stand­ing the deeper sig­nif­i­cance that he is show­ing off his sub­mis­sion and lack of control.  To a large degree (and mostly I’m talk­ing about those idiots with the ear don­gle cell­phones), peo­ple with cell phones are just like that, largely miss­ing out on the greater irony of being proud of some­thing that is con­trol­ling their lives.  Like many other things, this makes me want to throw my cell phone in the trash.  Either that or give it to the dog.