SIR -- The contortions of some people when trying to fulfil one task while speaking on a mobile phone never cease to amuse me.
With phone clamped between ear and shoulder, they will wander along like Quasimodo heading for a bell ringing session at Notre Dame or some deformed character from a Hammer Film of the 1960s.
One young girl, who is employed at a Banbury caf, had the task of collecting from 100 yards distance the A-board that advertises the establishment. First, she tried to lift the board with one hand, while holding the phone in the other. Next she tried to jam the phone between the board (now held with two hands) and her face. The result was she couldn't see a thing.
Finally, she adopted the ear-to-shoulder method and limped away, while announcing to all within earshot her arrangements for the evening out.
I wonder if her neck ached before she met her chums.
SIMON STONE
Warwick Road
Banbury
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