May 18 2009
Answer Your Phone, Already
photo by cd.harrison
Ringtones stopped being clever a couple of years ago. Once upon a time, it was cool, even funny, to hear a cell phone ring in the supermarket or the coffee shop and all of a sudden you heard Homer Simpson’s trademark “Doh!” fill the air or maybe the first few lines of Steppenwolf’s Born to Be Wild.
Cool, huh?
Everyone would turn and smile at each other, listening to the clever ringtone until the owner finally answered his phone. It was like a little show. The cell phone owner with the clever ringtone would answer his phone smugly, pleased that he had such a hip ringtone that everyone envied. Then we’d all run home and try to download a clever one for our own cell phones and who can ever forget Howard Dean’s famous scream? Who didn’t want to download that?
Well, it stopped being cute and clever. Ringtones are so played. Now they’re just plain annoying.
Why?
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