Being married to a cellphone or I'm just a luddite

[Pax]

My seven year old Razr phone bit the dust recently so my SO and I went out and got iphones. I take it to work and leave it on the edge of my desk, check it every couple of hours to see if she's texted me about something... then take it home and lay it in the desk. We don't even take them with us on the weekends when were together. I guess we don't "get" technology.

[channlluv]

I also don't understand people who walk around constantly talking into a cell phone, and I really don't get the earwhiggy-attachments. I don't want anything like that so close to my brain for more than a minute or two at a time, if ever.

I have an iPhone, too, and I check my email on it, and text with family and friends to confirm plans, but I don't often use the phone function. My mom will call me sometimes three or four times a day just to tell me something she forgot to tell me before...I shouldn't complain, but to be honest, I will sometimes turn my ringer off for a few days. She'll leave messages. Anyone who calls, if it's important, will leave a message. I rarely actually answer the phone. I do return messages, though not always in a timely manner.

I actually use the GPS/maps feature pretty often, but the most frequent app used is probably Scrabble. I don't use anywhere near the data minutes we're paying for, though. We should probably reevaluate our plan soon.

Roxy

[Reesha]

This thread inspired me! I have kind of a crappy basic phone, and I've been paying $86/mo for an unlimited plan I simply do not use. Beginning in January I will have 200 anytime minutes, 300 text messages and a $40/mo bill

[nscrbug]

This is a timely thread topic. My MIL has officially "canceled" Christmas (she also canceled Thanksgiving last month) this year because of a cellphone incident that occurred during Christmas last year. MIL has a house "rule"...absolutely NO cellphones during family holiday get-togethers. When my DH and I arrived at their house on Christmas Day last year, my SIL had her face buried in her iPhone texting...and this continued for the next 5 hours!!! I don't even think she saw her kids opening up their gifts, because she was too enthralled with texting or whatever it was she was doing her iPhone. This enraged my MIL so much, that the next day she informed all of us that she was canceling Christmas (and all other family holidays) from this point forward...because she didn't want to interrupt anyone's phonecalls. So because of my SIL's bad behavior last year, there will be no Christmas celebration at my inlaws ever again. Talk about one bad apple ruining it for everyone!

[indysteel]

Wow, Linda! That seems a tad extreme. Do you have any idea why MIL didn't just address this with your SIL?

Pardon the diversion from the topic, but I haven't read any updates of late about your sister. I sure hope she's doing okay. You are still very much in my thoughts and prayers.

[Irulan]

Wow, Linda! That seems a tad extreme. Do you have any idea why MIL didn't just address this with your SIL?

The whole thing sounds pretty dysfunctional.... but what family isn't to some degree, at holiday time?!

[SadieKate]

The whole thing sounds pretty dysfunctional.... but what family isn't to some degree, at holiday time?!

Isn't it a requirement?

[zoom-zoom]

The whole thing sounds pretty dysfunctional.... but what family isn't to some degree, at holiday time?!

I always thought my family was dysfunctional...now I know that mostly we're just loud and obnoxious. The only one who's really borderline dysfunctional is my baby sister, but she's becoming less of a PITA the older she gets (though she is still astoundingly immature for a woman going on 31). My DH's family has always put on airs of superiority, but WOW, what a flippin' mess that bunch is. They need extra closet space for all their skeletons.

With my family we drink during the holidays to have fun and share laughs. With my hubby's family I wish they'd drink more so they'd stop being so danged uptight!