Barbarian Enters World of Technology! Confusion Sets In Shortly Thereafter.

Last week my cell phone finally showed up in the mail. I'm not proud. In fact, quite the opposite. I've never felt a need to have a phone with me at all times. I'm a firm believer in the idea of "I'm not home right now. Leave a message and I'll call you back." Nothing in my life has ever felt so important that I needed to be reached no matter what.

Someone once asked me what I would do if I got in a car accident. "That's easy," I said. "Chances are, if that person doesn't have a cell phone, one of a dozen people driving by WOULD have one and would feel a need to be that person that calls in to report a traffic accident." Of course, the person said, "What if you were out in the middle of nowhere and got into a car crash. What would you do?" I'm not positive, but I think I said I'd either try and go get help or I may just die. I got a startled response from this. But, really, isn't that what has happened for years? One of the risks of being in the boondocks is that, if something goes wrong, there is a significantly decreased chance of someone coming along to help.

Of course, talk to Kitty Genovese about that. If you've never heard of Kitty Genovese, look it up on Wikipedia.

[/end rant] As I was saying, I never felt a need to get a cell phone. Likewise, I often become annoyed when people's cell phones ring. At all. It's unreasonable of me, but it still gets on my nerves. However, now that I spend more of my time at school than at home (I essentially go home, do nothing for an hour, and then go to bed) I realized it was now imperative that I have a cell phone to reach anybody for any reason. Plus - I got tired of using the public phones. They're free. I just got tired of them.

People - forgive me. I ran out of reasons to avoid having a cell phone. I'm not proud.