When you use your mobile phone (cell for my American readers, do you feel compelled to walk around?

I do, and I notice that other people do as well. Is this a male thing? Or do women wander around with their mobiles clamped to their ears as well?

Why? I mean, why do we do this? I don’t wander around when the phone is attached to the wall by a cord. I don’t usually wander around when I’m using the cordless phones we have at home. So why do I feel the urge to walk around when I’m talking on the mobile?

A relatively trivial matter, I know, but it’s irritated me for years. Write your thoughts, theories, answers in the comment space!

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Q What is a phlebotomist?
A ?

Only one person in the office knew the answer to this question today, and she was a trained nurse.

The reason I ask is that I saw the phlebotomist at the doctor’s today, a rather stern lady in a white coat who asked me if I’d eaten anything that morning (I saw her at 9:50 a.m.) before she did what she had to do.

Answers on a postcard (as they used to say on radio quiz shows before the days of emails and texts) - or, better, answers in comments to this post, please. And no cheating by looking the word up before writing in. There are no prizes. I’m just curious to know how many people know the meaning of this word without looking it up. I have to admit that I had only the vaguest notion before the one medically trained person in the office was able to tell me.

Friday 18 August, 2006
OK, Leila has the right answer (see in the comments section). She was only the second person I’d asked who’d any idea about phlebotomists. It really does sound like a profession from the 18th century, someone who would bleed you, supposedly to cure your ailments. I cannot believe that the 21st century National Health Service still includes the profession of phlebotomist.

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