Blog Post #9: Chapter 10 Reading (bionic zap guns!! tehe)

Sorry this is very early, or late, but my head felt like it was getting squeezed by Zeus or something. Rather painful and annoying, I really couldn't think at the time.
Interesting sentence:
"Like Taslima, Tim uses his cell phone to point and gesture, jabbing the air, but eventually they turn away." Nadira about Tim trying to help, on page 83.
She's correct, when she says Taslima uses her phone "as if it's some kind of bionic zap gun." But really, why are they doing that? The only thing she is doing by waving it around like that is sending cell phone 'waves' in a different direction or take someone's eye out with the little antenna thing (if her phone has one of those). And it doesn't really seem to get them anywhere with the officers at the station or the immigration check people.
Really, people? The thing to do when you are in trouble is to wave a cell phone around like it will sprout magical powers and save you? Nuh-uh. Doesn't work like that. Sorry to burst your bubble. Oh, that's right, you just forgot to by the 'zap gun included' package, didn't you? Well, Taslima, it's not happening like that. If you want to get somewhere, talking logically and calmly might have done the trick, but you blew it.
Moral: Cell phones are NOT bionic zap guns.