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I have had cell phones of one kind or another ever since a Motorola DynaTac in the late 1980s. In 1996 I got a Motorola StarTac clamshell which fit nicely into my front jeans pocket. I knew it had the first vibration alert offered in a phone, even tested it. Driving around a couple days later, just groovin to some sounds, thinking about the next big idea I was going to squash, when I apparently had an incoming call - which - apparently causes the vibration alert. I thought I was being electrocuted, either that or a rabid squirrel had just climbed up my pants. I grabbed the front of my jeans with one hand while simultaneously raising up off of the seat, kinda crying a aaaaaa!!! sound, while bringing my truck to a screeching halt in a cloud of north Texas red dust in about 4.5 feet from 50 mph, unbuckling the seatbelt, and leaping from the confined space that surely was to be my tomb - and stood beside it shaking my leg like a corner boy trying to dump his stash... I turned off the vibrating alert...