John Schott reports on men showing their enormous, ah, tech savvy with gadgets, then improvising mobile simulacra instead of doing without.
Men discovered that using their phones publicly in self-conscious, flamboyant ways turned the devices into babe magnets, at least every once in a while. So it wasn't long before some men--horney and broke, but resourceful--took to making cardboard phones.In Europe, where strolling on shopping streets is still a custom, these mobile phone peacocks flocked on street corners. In the US, faux-phones were more often deployed in the car, where reflective glass and natural distance aided considerably in the ruse. Posed at the stoplight with cardboard phones in their hands, men could be seen in heated discussions with their brokers shorting stocks with the visible intensity of a 16-year-old high school student playing an 80-year-old tycoon in a high school play.
Technology changes; men persist. Today's of-the-moment babe magnet is a $400 iPod on your belt--worn discreetly, but for sure visibly. Not getting hit on? Don’t have one? Well now you do.
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