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Your boss not knowing how to type, John Madden refusing to get on planes — these are adorable quirks caused by being old, or phobic, or old and phobic. But a cell phone is so simple to use, so harmless, and so integral to how we’ve agreed to communicate as a society, that refusing to own one isn’t just the act of a Luddite. It’s a pretty serious power move.
Everyone has a cell phone now. There are more than 280 million mobile subscribers in America, according to the Federal Communications Commission. According to a 2005 international study by Advertising Age, 15 percent of Americans have interrupted sex to answer their phones. Even people who are videotaping themselves having sex, like Paris Hilton, stop to answer a call.
Not having a cell phone is a way of getting the world to run on your time. A lot of powerful people are already on to this. Warren Buffett doesn’t use one. Nor does Mikhail Prokhorov, the 45-year-old Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets. Tavis Smiley doesn’t own one, either.
I only use my cell phone as a phone.
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Animby==banana leaves? Too waxy, things get spread around instead of wiped off. I’ll let YOU find out what happens when you “try” to use a monkey. Not a pretty sight.
It’s au courant to say “I ONLY have a cell; got rid of the landline” but I go nuts trying to have a conversation with some kid on a celly that’s only working simplex and breaking up too. When the damn things sound as good as my Western Electric “touchtone” did in 1962, I’ll switch over.
Meantime, T-mobile will give you 1000 minutes for a year for a hundred bucks -no monthly. After a whole year of “honey I’ll be there in 10″ and “they’re out of raspberries do you want blackberries”, I’m going to roll over 300 minutes.
Love it.
Nope, they’re just pricks that leech off other people’s cell phones.
# 21 bobbo said, “…banana leaves? Too waxy, things get spread around instead of wiped off.” Turn ‘em over. They’re ribbed. For your pleasure.
“I’ll let YOU find out what happens when you “try” to use a monkey.” Deja vu! Didn’t I just answer this in Mecca Time? Like I said, grab your fruit and let the monkey run between your legs. Do NOT be looking down when that tail springs up…
No cells-what dorks. It’s 2010-get over it. Likely no one wants to talk to you anyway.
Nope, I have no cell phone. If I’m not home you can’t call me. And I don’t answer the phone ever, anyway.
I refuse to do any kind of financial transaction online. None. No online banking, no ordering stuff off the internet with a credit card, no online bill pay, none of it.
I wouldn’t have direct deposit pay except that most US employers refuse to give cashable paychecks. I miss real paper paychecks that put(untraceable)cash in my pocket.
I don’t wear my watch (A Rollexx bought in Beijing for 80 quai that doesn’t usually work).
I also don’t have a car. No car insurance, no registration, no gas, no tickets. I take the bus, bought a monthly pass.
I have checked out of the American Dream, said goodbye. I’m cooked and done with it. I am a 57 year old Luddite.
But I do love my computer.
#25 i LIKE IT.
iF SOMEONE COULD PUT ME IN A spot, with full internet access and NO BILLS, they could have 1/2 my check. 2/3 of my check.
Leave me alone and let me VEG..
# 25 cookie_crumbs said, “I miss real paper paychecks that put (untraceable) cash in my pocket.”
What, exactly, is untraceable about a paycheck?
Nope, no cell phone here. My wife and kid have one each and I hate being out and see them “having” to answer some stupid text about ma-in-law dying of constipation again.
And yes, I answer the landline, that is why I have it.
I have two cells (work & personal) and a pager. My new personal phone is a Sprint EVO and it is awesome. I am just beginning to get into all the neat stuff I can do with it.
I do have a phone but like many here use it only when needed. And only for actual phone calls. Hell, I don’t get the craze around these smartphones. Give me my trusty (and plain) Tracfone any day of the week for reliable coverage and low cost. Don’t need anything more.
#30 Then you’re in luck. Dallas seems to be looking for a new partner and having a pager is one of the things he’s looking in the new partner. I’m not surprised, he seems like a pretty needy individual. Good luck, indeed!
Can I link this to the previous article about iPhone owners getting more sex than Android owners and infer that billionaires are getting less sex than iPhone owners?
#33 And the obvious one you can draw from this one: millionaires don’t use oy!phones
I generally use my phone for it’s other functions, namely the internet, music and GPS. I only have a phone instead of a PDA for the possibility that I need to contact someone in an emergency, such as calling someone if my car breaks down out in the bush, or calling a ambulance for an accident.