Back in the day...

When times were such that checking out a video at a corner Movie Rental Store was the hippest thing to be into and cell phones were called mobile phones or bag phones and only traveling sales people had them.... we had a bet going in our family.

The first family member that saw, in person, a person talking on a cell phone while riding a bicycle would win the privilege of picking out the fast food restaurant that we would go to the next time we could afford to go out. It took quite a while, maybe a year, before we saw it. It was hooting and hollering time since all three of us were in the car together when Kathryn eye-spied the bike rider talking on a cell phone. It was on the corner of Van Dorn and 56th. I wish I knew the date but it had to be before Myer drove, so it was probably about 1997. That is a guess.

Today while I was visiting Flickr photos for entertainment I came across a great photo of a person talking on the cell phone and the young man, the surroundings and the posture of the head and shoulders emitted an emotion. I was taken with the photo. I commented to the photographer on Flickr that it would be interesting to start a group of photos of people talking on the phone.

Little did I know, when I did a search for all photos downloaded, that there were several hundred photo pools already put together. I put one on slide show and just hooted and hollered at the beautifully bizarre and critically somber photos of people talking on the phone. I decided that it was like a sociological experiment and decided to create a blog with myself as the scientist put in charge of selecting photos and sorting and categorizing them into attributes dealing with daily sights, dramatic moments, dizzy captures, definite voyeurism, delightful photo talking portraits, and extremely rare sightings. I would also be in charge with reading the subject matter and their body language to the best of my poetic ability.