I used three different cell phones for about ten years. After I quit pizza delivery, the benefits of having one were no longer worth the costs so I canceled my service. I keep the phones though. Cleaned up, they make great toddler toys (at least mine do - none with tiny removable or breakable parts of course)

There's something about the phones that attach to the ears that make me think of Darth Vader and borgs. I probably shouldn't entertain that connotation, as I'd hate to bias myself against someone just because they have blue light coming out of their ears and act as though it's perfectly normal.

Jimmy, are your experiences with people who do have cell phones somehow related to the reason you've never had a cell phone, or were the amusements you recounted only a curious side-story?

Actually I am thinking back, and I abandoned my phone sometime before I quit pizza delivery. I remember one afternoon talking to a customer whose house I had re-arrived at (nobody was present on my first delivery attempt.) She remarked that tried to contact me by phoning my store so that they could contact me on my cell phone and let me know she was not home yet, and I replied that I did not have a cell phone. I expected her to look shocked that I didn't have one (based on her assumption that I did), but instead her reaction was, "oh really? I'd get rid of mine too if I could." Then I smiled and replied, "I used to say the same thing!"

Some people have to have them and some people don't. And many more enjoy using them and playing with them. As much as my wife likes to play with her newest phone ($7 on eBay, hehe - shhhhhhh), I think my 1 year old is even more fascinated by them. Just try and take hers away - I wonder how long I can get away with leaving the battery out before she confronts me about it