Cellular Telephones

Here's maybe the second best thing about Cellular Telephones:

If you want to talk to yourself, but there are other people around, you can pretend to get a call, and then you just have to do a little fake intro conversation and go into whatever it is you want to say. No one will be the wiser, unless you're a really poor actor, and it's obvious that no one actually called you, and then you'll look even weirder because you're not only talking to yourself, but you're pretending to talk to someone else, and even waiting for them to say stuff.

Here's maybe the third best thing about Cellular Telephones:

Rural electrification: seedbed of the unforseen.