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Brits send emails from the quack's
A SURVEY carried out for UK mobile network operator 3 has highlighted just how addicted Brits have become to their Crackberries and mobile phones. An amazing 13 per cent admitted to working in the doctor's surgery.
Strangely, there's no mention of Brit's well-known propensity to take calls while they're in the loo but 23 per cent of people have answered calls or sent emails whilst down the pub.
That compares with a quarter of all the 1,000 people surveyed who have worked on public transport using their mobile phones.
The INQ would have thought that figure should have been higher.
Perhaps the most bizarre admission comes from the seven per cent who sneaked out
in the middle of a date to make a work call. Get a life.
It is less shocking to discover that four per cent have managed to send an email or made a call whilst having a waxing session. Takes your mind off the pain, we suppose.
These results have convinced 3's newly-formed Business Unit that SMEs are a jolly good target as they use their phones for work all the time.
So can we expect to see a phone salesperson down the beauty parlour, then? µ
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would you pick them up and read them?

I have, but it does cross my mind what illness the people before me have had, if they were picking scabs, etc then touching the pages. But then I think screw it.
"23 per cent of people have answered calls or sent emails whilst down the pub."

Were the other 77% Tetotal? Of course you use the phone down the pub, to find out where you mates are, to phone the taxi to get home, etc etc etc!
... did they mean "waiting room"? If so, that's not too bad--beats reading 10-year-old magazines, don't it.

But if they mean from the doctor's office, in the middle of a consultation ...