[GH85Carrera]

My business partner bought one of the first cell phones, the Motorola brick. It was crazy expensive and calls were 25 cents per minute. He had to have it.

He moved to smart phones as soon as they were available. To this day, if I want to contact him. he prefers I send a one word text message of "talk". He will either call me right away, or text back "10 minutes" or whatever time frame he needs.

If anything is outside of normal hours, we send each other email. That can be answered later.

Like many here, my cell phone is paid by me, and for my use. I have no problem putting it in silent mode, and not answering calls or texts if I am driving or watching a movie.

I hate all the political text messages, and I just delete and report as junk all of them. I have 4 email accounts, and my phone gets them all. Still, I prefer to use my computer and Outlook to read and send email. It is all synced to all my accounts as well. It is handy to build a new contact in Outlook, put it a folder that it should be in, and it just appears on my phone. Same for appointments.

Like most of the people on this board, I lived most of my life without a cell phone. It is now my second brain. I can't imaging going back to life without it.