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so I'm a Luddite, sue me
As Miles said in Komarr, about a comm link, I don't want to feel like an experimental animal let out into the wild.
But.
The following is out of simple curiosity. I'm not saying I'm actually going to do anything about the situation. But I heard on the radio today that cellphones in the US are approaching saturation (as in almost everyone has one).
Well, I don't. I won't say I never have, because I was once given a big clunky one back in 1999 for a brief time, because I was on a three-month solo cross-country car trip, and well, my mother insisted. The joke turned out to be on her, because the only time I actually wanted to use it, it was trashed in my wrecked car. But we won't go there.
I bought a TracFone about six years ago. I don't think I ever actually spoke on it except when I set it up. I never received any calls because I never remembered to turn it on, and I never called out on it because I dropped it into the bottom of my purse and promptly forgot about it.
Ditto for the, I think it was AT&T prepaid phone I bought about three years ago in a third spurt of, "I really should have a cell phone."
I'm not sure where either one of them is now. Not in my purse, anyway [g].
So it's not like I haven't tried, so to speak.
Every once in a while, though, someone who cares about me will express concern that I don't have one, or someone will be disconcerted that I don't have a cell phone number to give them. And I'll think, I really ought to do something about it, I suppose.
So then I'll go to Radio Shack, or the kiosks in the mall, or Target, and be promptly overwhelmed by a) the gazillion choices (good grief, you don't just choose a phone, each phone comes with multiple plans and the combinations are apparently endless), and b) the ridiculous cost (defined by me -- and honestly, I don't care about anyone else's definitions here or what the going rate is -- as anything over $25 a month, billed monthly, not me remembering to load prepaid minutes which I won't, I guarantee), and walk right back out again.
If you were me, what would you do?
Not that I'm going to actually do it without overwhelming evidence that I should and without the process being streamlined to the point of ridiculousness and without the price being reasonable (see above), just so you know.
But I'm curious.
But.
The following is out of simple curiosity. I'm not saying I'm actually going to do anything about the situation. But I heard on the radio today that cellphones in the US are approaching saturation (as in almost everyone has one).
Well, I don't. I won't say I never have, because I was once given a big clunky one back in 1999 for a brief time, because I was on a three-month solo cross-country car trip, and well, my mother insisted. The joke turned out to be on her, because the only time I actually wanted to use it, it was trashed in my wrecked car. But we won't go there.
I bought a TracFone about six years ago. I don't think I ever actually spoke on it except when I set it up. I never received any calls because I never remembered to turn it on, and I never called out on it because I dropped it into the bottom of my purse and promptly forgot about it.
Ditto for the, I think it was AT&T prepaid phone I bought about three years ago in a third spurt of, "I really should have a cell phone."
I'm not sure where either one of them is now. Not in my purse, anyway [g].
So it's not like I haven't tried, so to speak.
Every once in a while, though, someone who cares about me will express concern that I don't have one, or someone will be disconcerted that I don't have a cell phone number to give them. And I'll think, I really ought to do something about it, I suppose.
So then I'll go to Radio Shack, or the kiosks in the mall, or Target, and be promptly overwhelmed by a) the gazillion choices (good grief, you don't just choose a phone, each phone comes with multiple plans and the combinations are apparently endless), and b) the ridiculous cost (defined by me -- and honestly, I don't care about anyone else's definitions here or what the going rate is -- as anything over $25 a month, billed monthly, not me remembering to load prepaid minutes which I won't, I guarantee), and walk right back out again.
If you were me, what would you do?
Not that I'm going to actually do it without overwhelming evidence that I should and without the process being streamlined to the point of ridiculousness and without the price being reasonable (see above), just so you know.
But I'm curious.