I Hate Nextel

Across the street from our current apartment live a whole bunch of young men who are going to some yeshiva together. It's like a big dorm of yeshiva boys. I will not miss them because they all use Nextel phones and use the direct connect walkie-talkie feature to talk to their friends all over the place. The Nextels are awful in walkie-talkie mode and their alert tone is a piercing chirp that is an almost constant feature in the neighborhood. I look forward to our new quiet street overlooking the valleys of Western Jerusalem and the beautiful Israel Museum.