No Reception

I was listening to a phone-in competition on the radio today. One of the contestants explained that it was their birthday, and they were going away at the week-end to celebrate at a hotel in Scotland.

The highlight, she explained, was that the hotel had no mobile phone reception and she would therefore be forced to relax by being cut-off.

As the host of the programme joined her in describing how wonderful this would be, I was left wondering how we could have reached a point where something as simple as a phone, could have been changed from a tool designed to help us, to a burden we have to tolerate.

If, like her, your phone doesn't seem to have an off-switch, simply remove the battery it silences it just as well. Failing this for the chance to relax, place it in a bucket of water or kill two birds with one stone and relax by taking it apart.