CORDLESS CARE
I wonder how many four-page instruction booklets concerning proper care of cordless phones go unread.
Most new phones have such a booklet with them, often in variety of languages , but I've never actually seen anyone reading one. Everybody, young and old alike, seems to feel they know all about telephones and that the peregrine phase of phonic development is not all that different from all the others in eras gone by in which they have been using and misusing it since Alex G. Bell devised it years ago. “Nuthin' to it! Anybody kin use a cordless phone!”
Simple information contained in these folders will tell you things you already claim to know, such as a warning not to use them during a severe thunderstorm. There is a slight chance you may be fried by a lighting strike.
Do not use a cordless phone anywhere there might be a gas leak or presence. Don't install a base near such an area. Don't not use your cell phone if it becomes wet in a shower of rain, or a bathroom shower, near water, or when you are wet even though the phone is dry. This includes bathroom and kitchen sprayer attachment, a wet basement, next to a swimming pool, bathtub ,or laundry tub. Do not use liquid foams or sprays for cleaning. If the cell phone becomes in contact with any such liquids jels or semi-solids, it should be cleaned and throughly dried.
Other warnings tell you to avoid opening your cell phone to see “why it ain't workin' right”. Doing so could expose you, or others, to high frequency and other such risks.
Each advance in communications method brings its own little list of potential ill effects - new problems along with the advantages. The cordless phone is one of them, and the cell phone, in its more exotic forms, is not the world's safest form of communication either.
I cringe inwardly when I see people pumping gas with a dozen others filling and spilling gasoline all around them, their phones in constant use inches from the nozzle. Some of them and be closer to heaven than they think they want to be some day.
A.L.M.. June 15, 2003 [c357wds]
