The Great Book of Mobile Talk

Overheard mobile pronouncements are a modern phenomenon. In the street, in the park, in supermarkets, buses, waiting rooms and even, heaven help us, in libraries, it’s quite impossible to get away from these tasty or repellent fragments of other people’s private lives. Wherever you lurk, their outbursts of despair or irritation ring out: mega-tantrums , in-jokes, celebrity spottings , instant post-mortems, office politics , whoops of joy and anger, weather reports, devilishly dull domestic detai