Cell phones are a wonderful invention and our way of communicating with the world. We have AT&T's One Rate Plan that allows us to call from anywhere to anywhere without long distance or roaming charges. We also use it to connect to the internet to do email and update our website.

In the early days of cell phones there were many voids where we couldn't get a signal or calls would be dropped. Now we seldom have that problem and when we do, we connect our Wilson RV / Truckers antenna that is mounted on the motorhome's roof and suddenly we have a strong signal.

Last summer we traveled two months in the Canadian Maritimes and often had trouble finding good signals and more trouble finding a cell provider that had an agreement with AT&T. During our stay in the Maritimes we saw only three Canadians using cell phones. I guess cell phones have not caught on up there.

Man, have they caught on in the states and especially in Louisville, Kentucky. Everywhere we go we see cell phones stuck in peoples' ears. Often in stores customers shop while talking to a friend, stand in line at checkout still talking and finally exit the store still yackking away. At a Pizza Hut we saw three women walk in together, each one talking on a cell phone. They sat behind me and during their meal I heard continuous conversations so I assumed they were talking to each other, but Linda said they were each still talking on cell phones. When they finished their meals they left the restaurant with their phones still stuck to their ears. It made us wonder why they went to the restaurant together as it was not for company.

We ate lunch in a Soupy's restaurant that serves soup and sandwiches. My position faced the drive-thru and I began to notice most customers were talking on cell phones so I started a survey. Sixty percent of the customers were talking on their phones and eighty percent of the women were using phones. As they drove away from the restaurant, still talking, they were apparently balancing a drink between their legs, eating with one hand and heaven knows how they were driving.

We have also noticed about twenty percent of drivers in Louisville are talking on cell phones and are not aware of their surroundings. These are the most dangerous drivers on the road and I wonder if police note "talking on cell phone" as a reason for wrecks. Many states have banned talking on cell phones while driving and that is a great law.