<!--QuoteBegin-Invader Scoot+May 8 2005, 10:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Invader Scoot @ May 8 2005, 10:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So CWAG would do this...
It's lunch time during school. CWAG is eating his lunch and <s>is talking with his friends</s> is looking around. He has his cell phone on vibrate, and it starts a-shakin'. He flips it open, checks to see who's calling, see's that it's his mom, who is in Iraq, and thinks, "Hey, it's my mom, she's in Iraq, I wonder if she's OK. I'd like to talk to her but too bad there's a rule against cell phones." CWAG proudly supports school spirit and hits the ignore button.
I bet you're mom would be proud to know you hung up on her! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I don't have a cell, and I wouldn't anyway because they weren't allowed in school. We had a payphone which could be used whenever. Also I doubt if my mom were shot or dying in iraq the first thing she would do is attempt to make that unlikely connection to a phone. Again, another inherently flawed argument that only even closely works assuming I am a completely cold hearted person who loathes his own parents...Im still waiting for a GOOD excuse and so far nemesis is only close in my opinion.
<!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+May 8 2005, 10:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ May 8 2005, 10:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Invader Scoot+May 8 2005, 10:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Invader Scoot @ May 8 2005, 10:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> So CWAG would do this...
It's lunch time during school. CWAG is eating his lunch and <s>is talking with his friends</s> is looking around. He has his cell phone on vibrate, and it starts a-shakin'. He flips it open, checks to see who's calling, see's that it's his mom, who is in Iraq, and thinks, "Hey, it's my mom, she's in Iraq, I wonder if she's OK. I'd like to talk to her but too bad there's a rule against cell phones." CWAG proudly supports school spirit and hits the ignore button.
I bet you're mom would be proud to know you hung up on her! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Or perhaps he would pick up, tell her to call him back later, and arrange a time with him and then they would. I don't see what's so hard about it. My relatives managed this pretty easily. So did my friend doing SatComm. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> but that would be using your phone.. and that's still a no no, right? Oh.. yeah I'm gonna tell the person who gave birth to me and is fighting a war that is questionable in it's own right something to the effect of,
"Hi momm- well I'm at school right now!....well where else would I be? I can't talk to you now momma there is that rule so we have to talk later- what? You wont have another chance any time soon? I miss you and you are fighting a war... but I don't want to be expelled for 10 days or be arrested... y'know, I don't want to be the angry black guy over a call from his mother fighting in Iraq so I'll have to take my chances and wait for another opprotunity to speak with you again. Stay safe momma!"
Rules is rules.. sure, but in situations like this you have to honor the spirit of the law, because let's face it.. this isn't some 16 year old girl receiving a call from her secret college boyfriend or whatever teens talk about. I know I wouldn't want a lunch room full of kids chatting on their own phones making distractions, but given the opprotunity to talk to your own PARENT over in Iraq where there is a WAR.. you can die over there.. many do everyday; this isn't your teenagers' average phone call.
Anyway I see this like the zero tolerance thing in school.. happens all the time.
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It's lunch time during school. CWAG is eating his lunch and <s>is talking with his friends</s> is looking around. He has his cell phone on vibrate, and it starts a-shakin'. He flips it open, checks to see who's calling, see's that it's his mom, who is in Iraq, and thinks, "Hey, it's my mom, she's in Iraq, I wonder if she's OK. I'd like to talk to her but too bad there's a rule against cell phones." CWAG proudly supports school spirit and hits the ignore button.
I bet you're mom would be proud to know you hung up on her! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't have a cell, and I wouldn't anyway because they weren't allowed in school. We had a payphone which could be used whenever. Also I doubt if my mom were shot or dying in iraq the first thing she would do is attempt to make that unlikely connection to a phone. Again, another inherently flawed argument that only even closely works assuming I am a completely cold hearted person who loathes his own parents...Im still waiting for a GOOD excuse and so far nemesis is only close in my opinion.
It's lunch time during school. CWAG is eating his lunch and <s>is talking with his friends</s> is looking around. He has his cell phone on vibrate, and it starts a-shakin'. He flips it open, checks to see who's calling, see's that it's his mom, who is in Iraq, and thinks, "Hey, it's my mom, she's in Iraq, I wonder if she's OK. I'd like to talk to her but too bad there's a rule against cell phones." CWAG proudly supports school spirit and hits the ignore button.
I bet you're mom would be proud to know you hung up on her! <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Or perhaps he would pick up, tell her to call him back later, and arrange a time with him and then they would. I don't see what's so hard about it. My relatives managed this pretty easily. So did my friend doing SatComm. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
but that would be using your phone.. and that's still a no no, right? Oh.. yeah I'm gonna tell the person who gave birth to me and is fighting a war that is questionable in it's own right something to the effect of,
"Hi momm- well I'm at school right now!....well where else would I be? I can't talk to you now momma there is that rule so we have to talk later- what? You wont have another chance any time soon? I miss you and you are fighting a war... but I don't want to be expelled for 10 days or be arrested... y'know, I don't want to be the angry black guy over a call from his mother fighting in Iraq so I'll have to take my chances and wait for another opprotunity to speak with you again. Stay safe momma!"
Rules is rules.. sure, but in situations like this you have to honor the spirit of the law, because let's face it.. this isn't some 16 year old girl receiving a call from her secret college boyfriend or whatever teens talk about. I know I wouldn't want a lunch room full of kids chatting on their own phones making distractions, but given the opprotunity to talk to your own PARENT over in Iraq where there is a WAR.. you can die over there.. many do everyday; this isn't your teenagers' average phone call.
Anyway I see this like the zero tolerance thing in school.. happens all the time.
If he hadn't of had his phone on him, he wouldn't have got the phone call.
So yeah, he should be punished.
CWAG, k4t, you both demostrated admirably why you are restricted. If you want a detailed reason for this lock, PM me, but don't expect ego strokes.