
These were cell phones my husband and I used to have but almost never carried around. We are simply not cell phone kind of people. We almost always leave them home, or in those rare occasions we do carry them, the battery is out. Most of the calls can wait, you know. Whenever you really need to make calls, you can just ask one of your friends to let you use the phone. Everybody has it, so it's like you have a free access to portable public phone everywhere. These days, however, our son started doing the same. He borrows his friend's phone to call home to say, "Mom, I will go to OOO's home today to do the homework." When I need to call him, I call his friend's cell and say. "Hi, Nathan, may I speak with XX (my son)?" We slowly came to a realization that it is time that we get ourselves better phone services and carry our own phones.

So we switched to Verizon and got these phones. My husband and I renewed the vows to treat the cell phones as intended. Our son, on the other hand, had to prepare his rule book how to treat his cell phone. This is how all three of us started a new life with cell phones...