Cellphones? (was Re: Update on the phone situation, happies to everyone...)

[jenP_97]

Of course.  The cellphone.  We do have one.  However, that night it 
was in the car, and there was no way I was getting out of my warm bed 
to go out into the cold (where the potential burglars lurked) to get 
it.  I just had to convince myself we were perfectly safe, and that I 
was graceful enough to be able to get out of the window, jump the 
fence, and bang on the neighbor's door.  Okay, not exactly.  I 
convinced myself that my HUSBAND was graceful enough to do that, and 
that I was fast/skinny enough to run down the hall, grab Ginger, and 
hide under her bed, all the while convincing her to be quiet.

;)

And of course, with the phone being in the car, my husband kept 
taking it to work with him unknowingly every morning (at 7am - he has 
an 8am class this semester), so I couldn't get in touch with him to 
bring it back.  

By the way, though we have a cell phone, it's usually only to call 
each other on the way home from the store (or to use in a BIG 
emergency in the store) or to get in touch with people when we're 
away from home.  Other than the obvious use of roadside emergencies, 
of course.  My husband and I have a natural hatred of cell phones 
because of our jobs - he has come to the point that he tells his 
class that if he hears one during a lecture, he will take it.  And 
then makes them sign a contract agreeing to that.  He gives it back, 
of course, but it's sufficiently embarrassing that they make sure to 
turn it off in the future.  I also remember hearing at least 2 phones 
go off during my viewings of HP and LOTR in the theaters (and in 
LOTR, someone actually answered it and talked to the person for 5 
minutes!), and that was just amazingly rude.  All in all, cells are 
useful, but boy, are they annoying!

Jen (who doesn't have a funny descriptor this morning)