Recently this came to the fore when a friend of mine called to ask if I had seen her husband. He hadn't answered his cell phone. She was a little frantic. He had to work later than expected. His battery was dead.
Has anyone else noticed some people assume terrible things have happened when a different someone doesn't answer their cell phone? Death, accident, jail? Sometimes I just don't feel like talking to anyone. Usually when I'm reading.
Many years ago I called my pager an electronic leash. Occasionally I now think of my cell phone as an electronic ball & chain.
Forehead slap: A few years ago a buddy visited me at work and asked me to call him when I was finished with my shift. I told him I couldn't because the battery in my cell phone had died. He pointed at the land line five feet away.
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