Last (Prehistoric) Man Standing

After speaking to a former colleague last night, he encouraged me to write my thoughts down.

I do not have a cellphone. Nor a PDA. There, I said it.

I do have a couple of laptops and a Mac - and I communicate via e-mail all the time. I have Digital Cable service at home. I regularly surf the web. I just have no desire to walk around talking on a cellphone.

Funny thing is, I started out in sales working in an electronics store, selling many the phone. I remember selling Novatel 3watt bag phones, and the Motorola 'brick' phone, as well as the Motorola PC500 and PC550. Press the 'zero' 13 times to program the ESN! And I remember when you had to make a 120 day commitment to Cellular One to get the price of the phone. the PC550 went for about $1200 then (not a typo). I sold a lot of phones.

So now, 15-17 years later, I see everybody chatting it up. In the supermarket, husbands are calling wives, wondering what kind of bread they should buy. And I laugh, because I'm independent, and can make that type of nutritious decision myself. Or when a plane lands, and everybody whips out there phones (or uses the blue tooth, looking a lot like Uhura in Star Trek), and says to the mysterious person on the other side, "we've landed". Of course, if the plane had gone down, they probably would have seen it on the news, but it's good to let people know you are within driving distance of the house.

So I have a goal - to be the Last Man Standing in the USA, without a cellphone. I know that the world is too lofty, with the whole Third World thing - so the US it is. Problem is, I have a brother-in-law in Indiana that s going to give me a run for my money. Maybe I'll buy him a cellphone as a gift when it's down to the wire, so I can claim the crown. You may call it cheating, but I call it survival of the fittest.