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Article: Some people are addicted to cell phones: ; The unnecessary has now become the indispensible
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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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 ...