“So I’m lookin’ at this yahoo and I’m thinkin’, what the heck are you doin’ at Burger King at 11 o’clock at night anyway, you yimp-yacker. I gotcher Whopper right here.”
“Bulls over, Bulls over. Who are the Bulls playing? They’re playing Sacareno, right?”
“Well, you never know.”
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A lot of people on car phones probably say they’re on their way to the health club, or on their way home from the health club. People must call in for their voice-mail messages. Maybe they ask for directions. They probably order merchandise from catalogs, make dinner reservations, break dentist appointments, and buy plane tickets. Maybe they even give out their credit-card numbers. Maybe there are conversations like this:
“I’ll put that on American Express. Number 2312 …”
“He wants the phone and VCR.”
But as I understand it, a scanner tuned to the “800 band”–that’s 800 to 900 megahertz–can easily pick up cellular-phone signals. A listener can’t select what he’ll hear, of course; the pickings are pretty random, I guess, and signals evaporate quickly. And some scanners are sold with the 800 band electronically “blocked out,” but it can be restored through the snip of a diode or some other simple surgery. As I understand it.
