Pic of the day: Detritus of the traveller

Images, cell phones, pic of the day — Stephen on 2 July 2009 @ 9:46 AM — 1 comment

Strange things I see frequently

Satori, cell phones, strange habits — Stephen on 30 April 2008 @ 7:06 PM — 0 comments

I don’t know if they didn’t get the memo, but a startlingly large number of people talking on cell phones in Mexico hold the phone in front of their mouth while talking. It is as if they didn’t know that the mouthpiece on these things was designed to pick up their voice WHILE the body of the phone is pressed to their ear. This allows for a quite handy full-duplex conversation, a wonderful feature of modern life. I never noticed this type of behavior in other countries I have visited, so what is up with Mexico or its cell phones?