Cell phones are awesome because you have a way of getting in contact with whomever you want whenever you want. Cell phones also suck, because people think they should get in contact with you whenever they want, wherever you are.
I have a love hate relationship with my cell phone. I love it when I am the one doing the calling and people are answering my calls/texts. I hate it when I want someone to answer and they don’t, or when someone gets mad at me for not answering. SO unfair right?
One of my main problems that causes a fair amount of drama in my life is that I never answer my phone. This is not because I am making a passive aggressive power move. It is because 99% of the time, my phone is on silent. I keep it on silent because I don’t want my phone to wake The Munch is she is napping, and I never remember to turn it back on when she is awake. Or I am too lazy… or more likely, I am making a passive aggressive power move. So a lot of times people will call me and I wont hear it because my ringer is off but I will see I have a missed call so I call them back, but they will be like “no way, fuck her I just called her and she didn’t answer” so they won’t answer, then maybe they change their mind and call me back because they actually do want to talk, but I still don’t hear them calling so I don’t answer again even though I just called them 30 seconds ago. Repeat cycle as many times as it takes for someone to just write me an evil text about how I am an emotional terrorist.
I also never listen to my voice mail, which also really annoys people. I will reply 3 weeks later if you ask me a question on VM.
“I would have loved to have gone to your birthday party 20 days ago!”
Then I assume that everyone is like me, so if I call and you don’t answer, I will try you about 20 more times in rapid fire succession figuring your phone is on silent. Never really occurs to me that you don’t want to talk to me, so If you still don’t answer I will write you a text that says “hey, just tried you!” like it wasn’t obvious from the 20 missed calls officially putting me in stalker status.
Oh technology… when we just have cell phones implanted in our brains so we can communicate telepathically?
