Having a mobile phone was something to make fun of. If you had one you were a yuppee, who'd be using it to shout down the phone to buy and sell stocks. It was

Having a mobile phone was something to make fun of. If you had one you were a yuppee, who'd be using it to shout down the phone to buy and sell stocks. It was funny how quickly that perception changed once they began to take off among the general population.