You know what I don’t get?
Or, actually, I’ll let xkcd explain the person I mean. Here: http://xkcd.com/479/
Yeah, that’s where he brags that despite his imperfect life, at least his cell phone makes a “ringing” sound.
I’ve known several people who’ve made that exact complaint.
I wonder if these same people also eschew alarm clock radios.
Because, like phones, alarm clocks are a thing that once could only sound their alarm through ringing a bell. Then alarm clock radios became a thing, so you could wake up to an annoying buzzer or to the (even more annoying depending on station) radio coming on.
I mean, yeah, we associate a ringing phone with a bell-like ringing sound because that’s really the only sound phones made for the longest time. Even when phones didn’t have so much a bell, but still made a tone that mimicked ringing. Then phones decided, screw it, we’re not bound by a bell anymore, so instead of a bell sound we’ll play “Oops I Did It Again” when someone calls.
Which, of course, scared some people. “Oh noes, phones aren’t making a ringing sound like they’re supposed to, run for your lives! ahhh!”
So… yeah.
