Article: Some people are addicted to cell phones: ; The unnecessary has now become the indispensible

WORDS cannot express how much I despise cell phones. And yet, I own one.

It's not working at the moment. You know how computers sometimes freeze for no reason? Well, my cell phone has frozen.

As soon as I finish this column, I intend to go to the AT&T store and see if they can kick its little butt, wherever it is, and get it operative again.

I use the phone primarily to contact my wife when she is in her office and I am in the car, waiting for her to end her workday.

I phone. She answers. I tell her I am outside her office ready to pick her up, and we both hang up.

Until recently, I was paying more than $30 a month for the privilege of making that phone call about four times a week. When I ...

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