Humor
Mobing You, Mobing Me,
Aha! by
Robert L. Sungte
It’s another
spanking new Monday, a man in tight unyielding jeans and
up-to-the-minute colorful T-shirts with his sure smile for a second
look, walks into the classroom. He takes his place in the last bench,
but all eyes went back towards him. Out of somewhere comes, “ Stayi’n
alive…Stayi’n alive…” bringing everyone (almost) to tap their foot to
the evergreen hits of the 70s by the Bee Gees. Someone in the front row
amusingly asks, “Is there going to be any celebration…whose birthday?”
and he too began shaking his head approvingly. Some girls were not
pleased!
By now our hero had stood up, putting his ringed-fingers into his
equally tight front pouch (his pocket). Finally, out came the brand new
Nokia handset which had been all the while been rendering the foot
tapping number. Looks around and place his set to his ear.
“Hi, darling… You’re taking me out this Saturday night, don’t say no,”
came from the other end before he could say ‘Hi’. It was enticing enough
to hear even if he had put the volume down. All ears opened up to catch
every word of the appealing conversation.
“Some other time, dar…” he clogged, “…I’ll label (call) you later” he
somehow manage to complete. Some girls in the front rows were somehow
relaxed.
How she can expect me to take her out when I just spent my whole monthly
allowance on this brand-new handset, his expression tells it all. How
cruel that ‘baby’ is! Forces down some fingers on the buttons, looks
around the classroom, which by now was watching in unreserved silence.
Put back his handset at the same sweat he has taken out.
Mobility and portability, new networks emerged, handsets became more
sophisticated, mobile applications offering increasing functionality and
new kind of content besides SMS (Scoundrel Message Service), MMS (Mums
Massage Service) etc, can be delivered through score of networks as more
bandwidth becomes available. Should this ‘baby’ be blamed for unceasing
‘disturbance’ of our ‘hero’ or should we take technology to task. It has
been (oops she has been) ‘mobing him’ for the last few weeks.
How much is too much when it comes to mobile usage? The increase of
mobile market is a blessing for manufactures and service providers;
market has been lucrative but how much time this technology takes away
our hero’s precious time and his pocket money. It must be measurable.
How much has it contributed to our social and mental contentment is a
question to which we are not near the answer.
Long gone are the days when a man could just bark from his window to
call his neighbor next door. Now, we can imagine if that is done today.
It is better to take ‘safer’ means unless you want to be ‘impolite’.
Today mobile phones have become an ‘integral’ part of many. It has
become some sort of traffic light that stops you at every junction,
eventually stopping you not to reach your ‘office’ according to the
planned route you had in mind. Mobbing you, mobbing me is the best we
can do. The delight is that we have learnt to live with it. We have
become more tolerant and appreciative of others ‘freedom of speech’ and
of course willingness to spend.
Once again I could feel my cells responding involuntarily to, “ Tu
wahan, Mein Yahan…”, our hero’s version of “ Stayi’n Alive” , coming
from my handset and had to keep down the pen to attend to my calling!
So, you and I sing, ‘you’re there and I’m here’ and tapped our little
feet to ‘Agar tum na hote…’when it comes to the usage of mobile
phones.
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