Are we a nation obsessed with ____? Not everyone loves the newest ____, but most of us do . . . ____. Think ____ to the first time you ____ someone using a cell phone. Did you have any idea what to ____ ____ it? What was that strange object ____ ____ a person’s ear? Why was that person speaking loudly on the street or in the supermarket? Why was he chatting ____ about matters that should have been discussed ____? Did you approve ____ this behavior? Did you say to yourself, “I just have to acquire one of these as soon as I can”? Or did you ____ this strange apparatus and its user? Did you think him ____? After all, what right did he have to ____ upon everyone else’s public space, this ____ with his ____ new possession? And then came another major problem. How could adults possibly drive and use phones ____? The ____ of time permits two events. Those eager to ____ ____ a culture of cell phones can take that step, and because many do, what once was ____ new eventually seems common. This event leads to another. Those once shocked and offended by cell phone use and users ____ to tolerate what had once been ____. This brings us to the final stage, when even the most ____ critics ____ that cell phones are not that bad—and become cell phone users themselves. Maybe the cell phone companies make an offer they just can’t ____. Maybe they ____ themselves in situations where having a cell phone ____ ____ helped. Maybe they just say to themselves, “Oh, why not?” Before ____, every street and every store is filled with cell phone users, ranging ____ age from eight to eighty. ____ long, everyone wonders, “How did I ever live without one?” And then the last stage: the newest, newest thing, the thing that ____ the cell phone and makes it ____. And the ____ begins again.

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