Discussion post #1 (Dearly Disconnected)

 Dearly Disconnected written by Ian Frazier a piece written to show how public pay phones are becoming
obsolete. Frazier's diction, word selection, of how public pay phones are abused and pale in comparison to cell phones, is clever. Frazier describes his multiple experiences with payphones and how he considers them a special public place. Pay phones seem to come to life when put next to cell phones in Frazier's article. Frazier's target audience would have to be middle-aged people, those around before cell phones. This article by Ian Frazier uses clever diction combined with funny metaphors that enhance Frazier's experiences with pay phones to show that pay phones are becoming obsolete but that they will remain around for years, few far and between.                                                                                                                                                                                
  Frazier's personal experience on how a simple pay phone helped spin off his relationship with his current wife, is a story to tell your kids on how you and your spouse got together. It shows that "love is pure luck" Frazier's words. Frazier's choice of ordinariness and boringness convey that pay phones as simple as they are is what makes Frazier appreciate them. He describes pay phones as a source to vent ones anger or just to simply abuse them which makes Frazier sympathize with them for what they put up with. Pay phones typically in his experience are dirty, smashed up, or have gum wedged in the coin slot. Frazier says he resents some pay phones that cause some unhappiness in his past. These events make people relate because most people who have used pay phones have had bad experiences with the little beat up buggers. According to Frazier pay phones stereotypically have graffiti, empty soda cans and empty beer, and cigarettes littering their insides. But he claims that this is just a sign that humanity has flowed through there. Frazier uses analogies and similes comparing pay phones to cell phones. "The pay phone is to the cell phone as the troubled and difficult older sibling is to the cherished newborn." Frazier then says " People even treat their cell phones like babies."
  Overall Frazier got his point across, that pay phones are a dying breed but that they will linger. Linger as a artifact from a different age. a age where when you were out and about you had to dispense a few coins to a greedy pay phone to contact someone. His target audience of the older generation will sympathize with the stress of cell phones that plague the current age. Everyone knows that cell phones can be a nuisance.