re: #30 retired cynic

I should say: I wouldn’t be without my smart phone, but I use it for a limited number of tasks. No twitter, no facebook, just email, calculator, watch, weather, yada. I live alone out in the country and when I fall, I might need help getting up. I’m old and fat and crippled, and that phone is my lifeline. At home or out driving.

When you’ve fallen and need help getting up, that will always be the time you remember with a certain amount of wry irony that your phone is still sitting on the bedside table being warmed up. I speak from experience!