Saturday, February 19, 2011

They All Have Cell Phones

I don't have one, but everyone has a cell phone. Grown-ups, teens, and little kids. My friend Dianne was the only person I knew who did not have one and now she has a cell phone. One thing learned on this trip is that everyone has a cell phone. I thought such devices were forbidden for Hasidic Jews, but in Israel, they have cell phones. (I did not see any in use during Shabat.) Veiled women have cell phones too. The priests and the Franciscan friars all have them. And amazing, but the Bedouin tribesman and women have cell phones too. They sit around boiling up water for tea over a wood fire chatting on their cell phones.
QUESTION If Bedouins live in tents, where are they recharging their cell phones?

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