On Dec 19, 4:22 pm, "Larry L" wrote:
I wonder what
percentage of those calls were even vaguely "important."

I'll confess to the most egregious cell phone call I ever took. Under
a warm, blue summer sky, #1 offspring & I were paddling from Lily Bay
to Greenville across a wonderfully calm and beautiful Moosehead Lake.
Loons swam and dove nearby, clouds dotted the sky, the beauty of
nature and isolation all around us.

In the midst of this, I took a call from my mortgage banker. By way
of explanation, we'd departed for a week in Maine in the middle of a
re-fi process, and yeah, it really was important; but it still seemed,
well, just wrong. Dangerous, no; but me in a touring kayak does raise
the possibility of drowning.

Joe F.