When we first got married Brad was frequently perturbed by my cell phone bill. This was back in the day before unlimited minutes. I sort of...went over my minutes a lot. Brad brought up our little struggle with my mother and her exact words were, "Yeah....I tried everything to get her to stop going over on her minutes...didn't work. She's your problem now." I forfeited the phone.
Six years of cell phone freedom and I like it the vast majortity of the time.
In a perverse way, I love shocking people by casually mentioning that I don't own a cell phone.
I am cultivating and preserving the dying art form known as the The Pop-In.
I frequently talk on my house phone (cordless! so advanced!) while buckling my kids in the car but I don't stop there. I'll keep talking as I pull out the drive way, and I know just the spot down the street where the phone won't work anymore.
If you don't have a cell phone, people can't expect to reach you all the time. Sometimes, you're just unavailable.
It's not crazy to drive a couple of hours in a 1998 Camry, a gazillion weeks pregnant with two children in the backseat. It's fun! It's almost as thrilling as driving three kids around in a car with 265,000 miles on it. As you drive, you make contingency plans like, "If something goes wrong, I have the double stroller and an Ergo....we'll be fiiiiiiiine!" See how exciting your life could be?
I know, cell phone plans have un-limited minutes now, or I could get a pre-paid phone to keep in my car for emergencies, but I kinda like living on this teeny, tiny edge of silly rebellion.
you crack me up! i just got my first one... and i miss the shock factor of saying i don't have one. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy husband would LOVE to get rid of his! Now that he works from home most days of the week, perhaps we'll swap his cell phone for a land line! We like to use cloth diapers, line drying clothes, and the fact we quit cable as our shocking conversation pieces. :) We've even flirted with the idea of getting rid of one car since he works from home...
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