My New Phone

     Over the weekend, we got a postcard in the mail.  It was from Cellcom, and it was promoting some "buy a new phone for 1/2 price" deal.  I picked it up and showed it to my daughter "look what Dad  is getting me for Valentine's Day," I said jokingly.  I went on to ask her which one I should get.  Who better to ask about electronics than my twelve year old daughter?  I was kidding about the phone, but it got me thinking that I have no idea which phone I would want even if I was getting one, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not.  I don't even know how to text.  I could check my Facebook, blog and twitter though.

     I started researching phones, just to see what they could do.  I decided that when I do get a new phone, I would actually know what I want it to do, and maybe I'll even know which one I want.  While researching, I noticed the comment sections of some pages.  The comments were written as if the writers had tried every phone out there.  They like it, they hate it, whatever, but they sure had experience with quite a few models.

     Some people seem to have a new phone every week.  I pay the bills on our phones and I don't know how we could afford a more expensive phone and texting, etc.  Where do people get all this money.  Aren't we supposed to be having a recession?  

     My daughter has hinted at wanting a phone, but hasn't pressed the issue.  A friend of hers was calling herself a loser because she didn't have a phone of her own.  I told that friend that my daughter was a loser too and was going to remain that way for a long time.  It was then revealed that not "everybody" had a phone of their own.  There were still a couple losers in the group who didn't have phones.  That was fixed as of Christmas morning.  Our daughter is still a loser, but we still love her.  I think her friends still like her too.  I bet they would like her more if she had a phone though.  Ha Ha! 

     So, I still don't know what kind of phone I want.  That's okay though because I really don't need one.  I think I'd rather go out for dinner and a movie for Valentine's Day anyway, which, now that I think of it, will probably cost more than a new phone.