Sir, - In the last few months radio advertisements for mobile phones have featured: a woman who phones her friend to get her a drink because her friend is nearer to the bar; a young man who rings up a friend asking: "What's the story", to be told "No story" followed by a long silence and then "Call you again in a few minutes"; a women who rings an old school acquaintance and, when asked what she has been doing for the past 20 years, is told "Nothing much"; a golfer who rings somebody (he clearly does not know very well) in Spain to tell him that he has bought a new putter.
On the assumption that the advertising agencies who design these gems know their market, can we deduce that the average mobile telephone user is a lazy, sad individual with no social life, who has done nothing interesting for the last 20 years and for whom the height of excitement is acquisition of a new golf club? - Yours, etc., Frank E. Bannister,
Blackrock, Co Dublin.