Mondays with Mike: Cell Phone Zombies redux

First, thanks to all of you who’ve commented or contacted me directly regarding last week’s post about people walking around while glued to their phones.

The response was such that Beth encouraged me to submit it to the Chicago Tribune Voice of the People section, essentially their letters to the editor feature. Well, it took some doing, but I managed to cut about 100 words off the blog post to reach the Tribune’s 400-word maximum, emailed it in, and the next day, voila: it was in the paper. And I got more email from friends and members of Beth’s memoir classes, who clearly read the paper every day.

All thanks to Beth, who told me to shorten my writing, and to submit. (To all of Beth’s memoir students, does that sound familiar?)

I’m supposed to be on around 7:30 a.m. tomorrow.

If you’re not sick of Mike and the Cell Phone Zombies yet, wait, there’s more! This morning I got this message from the producer of the WLS AM 890 morning radio show:

I’m helping to book the WLS AM 890 morning show. If you are the same Mike Knezovich who wrote the letter about zombie cell phone walkers I’m hoping you would be able to call into the show this week to talk about your letter, and experiences. I’d appreciate it if you could get back to me….

I did get back to him and as of this writing (things change a lot with radio scheduling, so who knows) I’m going to be calling into Tuesday morning. Now, that station is not usually my cup of tea, and one of the hosts is a somewhat infamous shock-jock, but if we stay away from politics, I think it’ll be OK. What could go wrong?

I will make sure I’m not in public and I’m sitting still while I’m on the phone. My cell phone.