The mobile phone is interesting in it's own right. I'm no addict by any stretch of the imagination. I don't download ring tones, I don't send or receive text messages, and I don't check email on my phone. However, I do feel rather strange if I leave the house without it. We don't even have a land line at home anymore and haven't for four years now. I take comfort in knowing that I can make a call anytime, anywhere when necessary. When we took a long road trip - I didn't have to worry about needing a reservation for an overnight stay on the way. I looked up a hotel and called for a room about an hour before we stopped.

I took a long trip in my early 20's with no cell phone at all and didn't give it a second thought. Now, I don't leave home without it.

If it didn't exist, I suppose pay phones would still be big as would all sorts of land line advancements.

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Spock Jenkins of the Vulcan Jenkins'.