As Conrad Connecticut pointed out, I got my first cell phone in 1994. It was a Motorola Star Tac flip phone. CC said:

…Cell phone charges were then about $3.99 a minute and the phone was so big that it looked like Bin Laden’s SAT phone by today’s standards. But still, JHK looked cool on it.

After the yearlong service contract, I decided that I never wanted a cell phone again. Something about being able to be reached all the time (though there was that one time, while driving on the highways of Connecticut, Conrad and I narc’d on a drunk driver. That was dope).

So through the 90’s and early aughts, as cell phones became ubiquitous, I further entrenched my position of being anti-cell phone.ÂThe more people dug at me, the more I dug in my heels. When Mary Milan revealed herself to be anti-cell phone as well, we knew it was meant to be.
Which explains why my anxiety levels were so damned high yesterday when Mary Milan and I finally tapped out and got cell phones.

Motorola Rzrs. Mine is silver. Hers is hot pink. She fought me tooth and nail for the hot pink one. If I hadn’t had been so anxious about the whole process I would have taken her down.

We went T-Mobile because they were cheap. So if your “in my mobile network,” “holla at your boy”. They tell me it’s free. Beware though, I still don’t really know how to use it.

Ooh, I think Conrad just text messaged me! Dammit, I’m becoming “that guy.”   If I’m ever on the phone and driving, shoot me.

Seriously.

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