I’m driving with this Canadian lady heading for “cottage country” in Northern Ontario. The cell phone towers get spaced out up there so you can sometimes lose cell phone service between towers. We’re going 60mph on the highway, and the lady starts to rail. “This is so irritating. I paid $150 dollars for this phone – the very latest model – and here I am, driving along, and the damned thing is useless.” Understand that at highway speed, we’re in range of the next tower in about 2 minutes.
Two minutes without phone contact, and the lady is freaking. I remember a time in Canada when to make a phone call from your car on the highway, you had to wait for one of those roadside service stations, find a working pay phone, get the right amount of coins,
