slight thread drift... why I got a cell phone.
We have a neighborhood near where i live where the streets all get curvy and crooked, and there is a steep hill, and the borders of 3 cities are..
I have always had a bit of trouble finding addresses there because they become ambiguous.

okay. my father had died about 2 weeks before when we heard the news that a friend's youngish father had died suddenly. DH & I were going to their house with food, but he had to leave early so we took two cars. I wrote down the address, DH didn't need an address, he has always been phenomenal at remembering where people live, me, i'm just average. And I had transcribed two numbers of the address.

I drove right to the approximate area that i had written down, but could not find the exact number. So I kept driving round and round. It was a neighborhood with no mini marts, so there were no pay phones around. OUr 10 minute drive for me turned into 20, 30, 40. I finally started to panic because i know everyone would be wondering where I was. I drove into a cul de sac
and noticed that no one was home in any of the houses, they were all dark.
And I knocked on one after the other. Finally i found someone at home, could I please use her phone? she regarded me with pure fear as she brought her phone outside (would not let me in). I felt like i was in the Twilight zone.
I got to my friend's house an hour late!

I got a phone the next week.