Neanderpundit

The company requested we all get phones. They would pay for x amount of usage, and we would pay the balance of the bill. This allowed us to get cool phones. and the company took care of enough of the bill that the cost to us was very minimal.

These days the company provides phones, otherwise I wouldn’t even have one- but back then, having a phone was the hotness- my first phone was a bagphone, which I used a lot, but when the company instituted this policy I went out and got me one of them fancy new Microtac phones. With the extended battery, you could get twenty or thirty minutes of talk time!

And you could store- If memory serves- ten phone numbers!

Alternately, lest anyone laugh at the crudeness of these phones, you could use them in a pinch to hammer in tent pegs and as a close combat weapon.

We had to turn the phones in when we got done with them, so I imagine they’re using them to hammer in tent pegs in China now.

A very interesting video about how doubles are regulated.